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I Miss Old TV Commercials. (lemmy.world)
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Or rather, how they were broadcast on television.

They had a space and a time, they were not uncomfortably specific, you could make the decision not to watch them by changing the channel or go to the bathroom for a while and come back. Programs and movies were designed or edited in such a way that rather than an interruption, they felt like a pause.

Because that's what they were: Advertising Pauses.

Not like now, which are Advertising Interruptions, Advertising Invasions.

Advertising "Disrespect for the Privacy and Time of the Users".

EDIT: I love how almost everyone assumed that by "old" I meant commercials from the last century (90s, 80s) when I was thinking more like mid 2000s

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[–] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I watched some TV with family during Christmas. I had forgotten just how much of a time drain commercials are. Sure it's more generic and some can be fun but it's not worth it to lose an extra half hour for a one hour show. And I don't think the times have changed, it was the same when I was a kid.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you’re in the U.S. it’s about 16 minutes per 1 hour show.

[–] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 2 points 5 days ago

That's not as bad I guess. I'm not in the US and I remember once watching an entire episode of House of Cards on my phone during the commercial breaks of a movie on TV.