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A question for you IT and such folks who are business learned....
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on December 28, 2012, 02:49:11 pm ---e had a bit of a discussion regarding ads in the console area with regards to the Xbox update to the dashboard that basically tuned it into a giant ad delivery system.
You paid for the system, You pay for the games, you pay for the on-line aspect of the system, yet, you continue to be bombarded with ads with nothing in return for them doing so...and M$ makes a buck. (like they need it)
ads aren't going to go away... it makes companies too much money.
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I don't think we can use Microsoft as an example... they've got balls the size of watermelons considering the kind of rip-off artists they've become with xbl. There's no excuse for a service you pay 60 bucks a year for to have ads of any kind. Even if you can accept that aspect of it, there's no excuse for services like netflix and internet explorer, which connect to the internet and not their private servers, to require a gold subscription. There are ads and then there's just ripping people off.
In the UK, from what I understand you don't have ads on ANY of the cable networks, much like it is here for HBO. The thought there is that you paid for the shows so ads aren't going to fly. Then again, the quality of most British shows (no offense to anyone) is pretty awful.
The Wii U, even though it has a pretty extensive FREE network is completely ad free unless you go into the shop channel. This makes perfect sense to me, afterall it's when the consumer is ready to actually buy something. Even then, it's more like featured products than ads. Their home menu actually gives free advertisments to popular titles. The 8 most talked about games/whatever on the MiiVerse have huge icons in the plaza. That's certainly a way to do it.
Ads aren't going away on the net.... that's basically the only means of revenue for sites unless they sell a physical product. We could certainly do with better ad plugins though.
Drnick:
Unfortunately we do have ad's on a majority of our cable stations, Even a lot of those that are paid for at a huge premium have adverts. The only good thing is that there are not as many as on US tv and they appear half way through and not just after the start credits and then what seems like every 5 minutes. Paid for Movie channels don't show adverts during a movie though as that would just be wrong.
Whereas the BBC which is paid for via a tax known as a TV Licence has no advertisements at all, At the same time other then a few programs it never has anything worth watching :)
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: Drnick on December 29, 2012, 04:41:39 am ---Whereas the BBC which is paid for via a tax known as a TV Licence has no advertisements at all, At the same time other then a few programs it never has anything worth watching :)
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Yet the BBC still has product placements on their popular TV shows.
SKY Player gets adverts on shows like Broadwalk Empire, which is a rip off as the cost of the SKY subscription costs more than the US dish network or Cox.
lilshawn:
there is a reason they call the show "this hour has 22 minutes" "22 Minutes" refers to the fact that a half-hour television program in Canada and the U.S. is typically 22 minutes long with 8 minutes of commercials.
Gray_Area:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on December 29, 2012, 01:50:58 pm ---there is a reason they call the show "this hour has 22 minutes" "22 Minutes" refers to the fact that a half-hour television program in Canada and the U.S. is typically 22 minutes long with 8 minutes of commercials.
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That's been the case at least since the late 80s, early 90s. Not that I care for anything outside of film these days anyways, and then relatively sparingly so. Except M.A.S.H. That show is god.
Anyways, I don't care about that stuff. I'm curious about the functionality of the languages and necessary development directions, or lack thereof, if there were no need for ads of any kind. I'm asking because it's seemed like there are people here who might have experience and insight to answer these questions.
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