TiVo is the answer

I'm old enough to remember when no more than 3 ads were allowed during any commercial break. 3? Sometimes they'll run 2-3 for the same PRODUCT, along with another 8-10 in one break.

One of the reasons I like to watch TV shows on the computer, on the network websites. They will usually insert a brief (but only ONE) commercian in each break, but it's a whole lot better than what you see on TV

We always know when it's summer by the commercials.
"Marineland" which is located in Niagara Falls, has been running the same annoying ads with the same annoying jingle ever since I was a little kid. These ads run incessantly, anytime during the day or evening, and 4 times during the local news hour. Quick hit the Mute button! They also increased to a full minute, I'm sure.

You need a DVR. I have a TiVo DVR but there are other brands. I like my TiVo because it will hold over 150 hours of HD programing. When I had a Verizon DVR I always had to worry about stuff being deleted to make room for other shows.

With a DVR you set it up to tape everything you normally watch and then just watch what you tape whenever you want to. If you notice something on that looks interesting just push the record button and wait a few minutes to start watching it.

With my TiVo I can go through 3 minutes of commercials in 3 seconds. It's VERY nice.

Yeah! Pretty soon we will be hearing....We interrupt this commercial for a minute of programming. LOl Dottie

Wait till some of these ad guys get old ...

... and hear their kids say, with that peculiar expression of disgust that kids seem to have absorbed with their mothers' milk,

"DAD - YOU TOLD ME THAT ALREADY!!!

Think that they might, just possibly, see any connection?

And, yes, jasdip - though I watch little TV - that Marineland ad that we hear so often in summer ...

... drives me dippy, too!

ole joyful

P.S. How long have you been able to claim to being dippy?

o j

LOL ol Joyful!

I think you nailed it, Dottie!

My other peeve is "news" type programs, whether local, national, tabloid or whatever, keep on with their teasers over and over again. "Coming up next (whatever might interest you), that and more when we return". OK, then 3 more teasers and commercial breaks later they MIGHT get to it. Even Hell's Kitchen, which I enjoy, but get tired of seeing the same argument scene at the beginning of the show, then used as an exit bumper and then the same thing is aired when returned then get back to the show. I can skip much of that on the internet.

One of our local stations used to use the bumpers to say what's coming up on the news and what time they'll air it. They gave a list of the stories, subjects and times. I miss that. But they don't want you switching channels and hoping you'll come back, since the odds are good you might not return.

I too like watching shows on the internet. Used to use the VCR a lot and could skip through the commercials and watch a "30 minute" program in about 20-22 min.