thanks. I don't know how they do it. I just expect it to be tighter. but it makes sense if they do it for some God forsaken city up north then apply it to the United States (Texas and its 49 biotches)Apples and Oranges.
Hulu is supplied the programs without commercials and inserts commercials if they want.
From the court documents we know Dish MANUALLY marks up the commercials, and only monitors a single market. The data files that flag the commercials have to be liberal enough to account for markets that may not be 100% in sync with the monitored feed, so a couple of seconds wiggle room at the beginning and end of each break is normal. I do think the wiggle room has increased over time, probably as folks from out of sync markets complained.
Lastly Dish is very conservative on what it considers a commercial. They generally won't skip it if there is even a possibility something is an "in-show" ad, things like a show host reading ad copy, inset ads, etc.
for me, TV shows are all the same. i watch as little as possible 'live' so Hulu or DVR is an apple to apple comparison.
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