My #1-son told me that Netflix was going to start airing commercials.
Has anyone else heard this? If true, I'm canceling!
RockRaven
(14,784 posts)something like "between episode promotions" or similarly ridiculous. I'm sure someone else can chime in with the correct phrase and details.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,539 posts)VUDU, and a bunch of other streaming services. Do you use any of these? Do you use any streaming services at all. I used Netflix for a short time, but got tired of going through the recommended shows and clicking "Interested" or "Not Interested"
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)Everything else is through Roku. We have Netflix, HULU, Britbox, Amazon Prime, PBS, and a few others.
We've got a thing for British police procedurals.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)They are testing it in some markets, but you can opt out.
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global1
(25,168 posts)That's how they lure you into buying in to it. Then once you're hooked - commercials.
Probably will happen with Netflix too.
Voltaire2
(12,626 posts)The only channels on cable that were ever ad free were the premium channels like HBO. Cable originally just provided the regular broadcast channels to rural areas with shitty broadcast reception. Ads included.
global1
(25,168 posts)commercial free. That morphed into what we have today.
Voltaire2
(12,626 posts)It just provided broadcast tv via cable. Pay tv was hbo etc and some channels were indeed once ad fee and now arent, but that was long after cable started.
MuseRider
(34,060 posts)and we still do not have cable. I don't remember that being a reason for cable, you may be right but if that was the reason they did a pretty shitty job of it. I am 3 miles from Google fiber but still don't even have regular cable and they have no intention of moving any closer to me ever.
Not trying to argue, I just do not remember rural having anything to do with cable. Satellite maybe?
grantcart
(53,061 posts)In the early years 1970s they promoted that as a big deal to the City Councils to get monopoly agreements.
At the beginning the public was sold on the issue that there was going to be a lot of commercial free TV
Cable actually started in the 1950s and HBO went to cable in 1975
In my city they gave out the first cable contract in 1972-3
I think the OP remembers the very early promotion to cities that Pay TV would be mostly commercial free.
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)Only during credits, not during actual program.
See article at:
https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Netflix-Going-Have-Commercials-45177243