TV Commericals and paying for TV
December 1st, 2007 . by admin
Can anyone tell me why we’re paying almost $100 a month in Canada for the ultimate satellite package? We shouldn’t be paying more than $30 a month for full service. The only reason why things cost this much is because there is a monopoly on the market.
To top it all off, the TV stations plant their logo in the bottom right corner, taking up a nice portion of the screen. We’re so use to seeing it these days that often we’ll ignore it. But if that’s the case, why put it there in the first place? Does it even have to stay there that long? Why not put it on 20 seconds before commercial break and leave it off otherwise?
What’s worse is that the amount of commericals have greatly increased from what I remember. A normal commercial break was only 3 or 4 commericals back in the 80’s and now there is as many as 6 or 7 of them.
I record shows on my PVR and burn them to DVD afterwards if they are good shows. I take the time to edit out and delete the commercials. When I do this, it shows me a graphical representation of the commercials on the time line.
A 30 minute TV show, often has almost 9 minutes of TV commercials. That’s basically 1/3 of the TV show is just commercials. Not only that, but I’m paying $100/month just to have the privilege of watching those commercials.
I think the cost of TV has gotten way out of hand. The amount of TV commercials is excessive. I’ve been waiting forever for internet TV, where amateurs and novices have their own TV channel to become common place. Its time to hook our computers up to the TV and watch some real solid shows, made both by professionals and amateurs alike.
This website is a good read. It says that the average person watches more than 30 hours a week of Television. It really adds up. I read somewhere else that the average man will spend about 9 years of his life infront of the TV.
Maybe we should check ourselves into a TV rehab facility and finally stop watching TV forever.
