You should pay for Hulu :) I bet that would annoy you more. I still can't believe you pay for hulu and still get ads all throughout the damn show. And not just ads. You see the same ads over and over and over.
Depends on the ads I suppose.
I'm surprised that there aren't any services that say "hey , we're going to make you watch ads but we'll let you choose what categories of adverts you get"
That way I don't get constant adverts for women's skincare products and get stuff about new video games instead.
Hulu does let you choose in that every few weeks there's a short survey with questions like, How often do you go see first-run movies? Hulu claims that the purpose of the surveys is to customize my "ad experience".
For most theaters there are. Our local chain in my hometown started the actual film exactly fifteen minutes after the advertised time, and the same is true for the theaters where I live now.
If you have pre-allocated seating, the cinema may have to employ people to ensure people are sitting in the right place (at least, people will want someone to complain to if someone else stole their seat).
But more importantly, pre-allocated seats encourages people to show up late to the screening and miss the ads and trailers, and potentially even miss out on the concession stand. If you don't have pre-allocated seats, you need to turn up early to be assured of a good seat; and what are you going to do in the (initially darkened) cinema waiting by yourself, if not consume some snacks that you bought.
The cinemas around me (London) charge extra for the privilege of pre-allocation.
I like movie previews, and even some commercials. What I hate is anything that interrupts the show or movie that I'm watching.
I would more than happily sit through a long block of all the commercials before the show if it meant that I could watch the show, in its entirety and without interruption.
I can't find it, but I recall a conversation with Joss Whedon who proclaims the commercial interruption to be the hardest thing in TV-writing to accomodate, and are the most jarring obstacle to an otherwise well-told story.
> Nothing annoys me more than paying for a movie ticket and sitting through 10 minutes of commercials before a film.*
A month of Netflix costs much less than a single movie ticket. Sometimes I wonder how they manage to keep the subscription rate so low without advertising.
Agreed. They should be, right?
Nothing annoys me more than paying for a movie ticket and sitting through 10 minutes of commercials before a film.*
I would hope after the customer backlash over the pricing change that Netflix will be smart enough to stay away from commercials.
* Drivers who camp out in the left lane annoy me slightly more. "Stay right except to pass."