Thread: TiVo Adverts on the Pause Bar
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Old 12-08-2013, 19:56   #27
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Re: Adverts on the Pause Bar
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Originally Posted by Chad View Post
Your easily surprised then
Yes, it was in the early days of Sky, before I was an old boy!

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Originally Posted by steveqpr View Post
You’re missing the point. As is mentioned by others, it’s the principle that is annoying.

Without wanting to sound like a stuck record, Virgin are generating revenue from their customers and then exploiting us by further generating money from those advertising with them. It’s a double whammy based purely on greed (unless anyone else can offer a reason for it) that grates.

I’ll ‘moan’ about your irrelevant input into a valid thread if you wish?

These adverts are ‘forced’ on you though aren’t they? Not in a Clockwork Orange ‘pin you down and open your eyes wide’ style, it’s subtly done but you have no choice in the matter.
I really don't see your point. Four tiny ads are displayed when you press the pause bar, and they disappear again as soon as you press play.

I have absolutely no problem with this, and nor do most people. If it helps to keep subscriber costs down, then good on Virgin.

To be honest, there are adverts almost wherever you look these days, I'm surprised you think this is such a big deal.

I think you should get out more. Try to ignore those adverts on the side of the buses, now. I know they didn't ask you first...

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Originally Posted by andy_m View Post
They are forced on you, I accept that. My point was more that because it's a pvr I'm now watching a lot fewer adverts than I ever did before I first got Sky + so I don't feel inundated with messages, and as a result I'm perhaps much happier to put up with this opportunism than I might have otherwise been.
Actually I welcome this because I want much more choice in the On Demand system, and without ads on there, they must have difficulty in making this pay.

If the price of getting a much better library of on demand stuff was ads on the index pages and right at the beginning of any video of half an hour or more, I wouldn't complain, frankly.

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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
From my personal viewpoint, the programme is usually on pause because I am doing something else, and not looking at the screen, so I can't say I have even noticed these ads......
Quite!
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