My wife had DVR'd the CMA show and watched it last night. The show was scheduled to last 3 hours and she fast forwarded through all the commercials. The show last 1 hour and 52 minutes without commercials. Thank God for that DVR!

Network hour long programs typically run over 14 minutes of commercials. It may even be longer with the political ads. We seldom watch anything when it airs, like you we record it and zip through the commercials.

We're now watching PRIME reruns (four seasons) of "Alias" with Jennifer Garner. All the commercials are deleted automatically. All we see are a couple seconds of black scene and right back to the program. Not even enough time to get up to take a pee.

Years ago we lived in Fairbanks and television ads about the only way to run for office. One candidate filmed himself watching TV and the announcer says “Now for another 30 minutes of endless political commercials.” He gets up and kicks the screen in and asks for our vote. He won in a landslide.

We're to the point that we DVR everything. The political commercials alone dominate every program and just grate on us.

Sorta like a football game. 10 minutes of action interrupted by commercials, instant replays, penalties and booth reviews. No thanks.

One of the many reasons I ditched traditional TV. Even back when I did have "real" TV, it had gotten to the point where I mostly watched channels like TCM, PBS, and HBO, due to their minimal commercials, which were concentrated at the end of the program, so no interruptions during the program itself.

There are no commercials on most pay streaming services, other than the occasional (skippable) brief trailer/blurb about their own programs.

And even on some of the free ones that have do them, like Youtube, you can block them with Adblock software.

There's no reason to suffer through commercials any more.

I find a YouTube session gives me much relaxation. Selecting a topic of interest is so easy and no commercials at all.

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Originally posted by fiasconva:
My wife had DVR'd the CMA show and watched it last night. The show was scheduled to last 3 hours and she fast forwarded through all the commercials. The show last 1 hour and 52 minutes without commercials. Thank God for that DVR!

Pretty sure that was the ACM Awards. I believe the CMAs (which I, at least used to, like better) are in November

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Originally posted by 4MUL8R:
I find a YouTube session gives me much relaxation. Selecting a topic of interest is so easy and no commercials at all.

Lately I have had tons of ads during videos I've watched. I watched a 14 min video yesterday and it had 3 ad breaks.

Way too many ads on YouTube lately.

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Originally posted by k5blazer:
Way too many ads on YouTube lately.

Holy hell...It's NUTS! And it never got close to this bad until a few weeks ago.

I will regularly DVR a show as the preferred method and just watch it later as to FFWD through commercials.

There are no ads on Youtube only if you have an adblocker or pay for no ads.

Have an OTA/DVR for the locals which are always loaded with commercials. The Tablo dual lite DVR that I purchased has a commercial auto-skip feature that works like a dream. The second you normally come into a commercial break, all you see is the bar at the bottom of the screen jump the commercials and perfect continuity of the scheduled program, what a fantastic feature!