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harshness said:

I recall similar arguments surrounding DISH's two-TV solutions and PocketDISH.

There's enough essence of sour grapes to make pretty much everyone suspicious about the underlying motivations for this argument.

Nobody cried foul when the World-Wide Web got too big and complicated for dial-up Internet The industry needs a new model and it isn't our responsibility to figure out to keep the old model going until they arrive at a solution.

The fact that the stations are making money off of us (as satellite subscribers) in addition to the ad revenues deserves a little scorn too.

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Joe Diamond said:

It has always been about the money,

As I understand the situation the OTA stations initially worried about the little dishes taking away their client base as far as ad penetration.SO they engaged the FCC to slow any sale of OTA signal to little dish customers. THEN they discovered they could count the sat customers who had their feed for ad client purposes. The money flowed back and all was nice again. AND they were paid for customers way outside their normal broadcast cone.

Now they fear TV users have alternative sources for tube entertainment and something approaching alla carte subscriptions is on the horizon. Also users have the capability to blank or jump their loud & irrelevant commercial messages.

EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE THIS BUMPER STICKER:

The industry needs a new model and it isn't our responsibility to figure out to keep the old model going until they arrive at a solution.

Good shot, Harshness!

Joe

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john262 said:

I'm all for skipping commercials. Sometimes you have to sit through ten or more commercials in a row. And that's after I have already paid D* over $100 a month just to watch those commercials. Somebody is greedy and is making a killing off from selling all of those commercials. Cut the commercials back to a more reasonable number and then I won't skip them.

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skew said:

Don't forget that Dtv owns the intellectual property of replay tv. They had it working great until they basicly got sued out of bussiness for it. I still miss the automatic skip to this day it was so nice to hit play sit the remote down for the entire show.

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dishcomm said:

I believe the rule is an 8 minute limit for commercial time for every 30 mins of program time. That is for regularly scheduled programming. Sporting events do not apply.. I think.
However, I am not familiar with the rules regarding cable programming.
A&E for example seems to have an endless barrage of commercials at certain times.
Gonna have to buy a stopwatch.

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