Life on Florida’s West Coast

An Hour of Commercials

The Incredibles is on television tonight. Unless you have a DVR and plan on watching it later, though, it is hardly worth your time. The movie is slotted for a 2-and-a-half hour timeslot. The movie itself is only an hour-and-a-half long. That’s a full hour of commercial advertising. I refuse to sit through that much in-your-face product selling.

Hogfather, the movie based on the 20th Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, makes its US television premiere on ION tomorrow night. It is a 3-hour movie that has a four-hour time slot. So, again an hour of commercials, but at least in this case the proportion seems a little more even-handed.

In both cases, I plan on using my DVD to record the movies. Then, I will wait to begin watching them about 15 minutes into their start-time. I should be able to stay ahead of the commercials and forwarding as I go, miss most of them and still finishing the movies about the same time they end on television.

Have I mentioned how much I love my DVR?

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