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Do you watch ads more with PVR/+ services??

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  • 05-02-2010 6:45pm
    #1
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭


    Just thinking about this now since getting a PVR from UPC. Or their plus service. AKA for many people Sky +.

    I fastforward through the ads and then when I see one I haven't seen before I stop and watch :rolleyes: and also I tend to see the ads more because I am concentrating on the end of the ad break.

    So another poll :) better than the last one I did (promise) well maybe.

    What do you think do you watch ads more now that you can pause rewind fast forward and play?

    Do you notice ads more? 16 votes

    No, Fast Forward really does away with ads completely for me.
    0% 0 votes
    Yeah, I think I have begun to notice them more before I would head off to the kitchen for tea/coffee
    87% 14 votes
    No, I have a method of know exactly when ads finish I have a fast forward technique
    0% 0 votes
    Yeah, I alway rewind when I see something I haven't seen before
    6% 1 vote
    No, I generally don't use a PVR as I download
    6% 1 vote
    Yeah, but I am not that bothered
    0% 0 votes
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    #2
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    I don't see adds, they all get edited out....huge + of the download shows.


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    #3
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Why would anyone ever want to watch ads when they don't have to... Even before Sky +, I'd flick to another station when the ads came on...


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    #4
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    CaptainNegative wrote: »
    Why would anyone ever want to watch ads when they don't have to... Even before Sky +, I'd flick to another station when the ads came on...

    Now that you Fast Forward through them are you watching them more than when you would flick? I should have stated that with the tea/coffee option.


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    #5
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,082 ✭✭✭✭Random


    I keep forgetting half the time that I'm watching the recording and generally don't cop it until halfway through the ad break but then I skip them :)


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    #6
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Elmo wrote: »
    Now that you Fast Forward through them are you watching them more than when you would flick? I should have stated that with the tea/coffee option.

    No, I fast forward through them too quickly to even notice what they are and I also don't care about ads... Seeing an ad on telly isn't gonna convince me to go out and buy a product... Only ads I see are the ones before a film in the cinema, and I generally spend that time talking to the person next to me about how ads have gradually gotten worse and worse in the last 20 years...


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    #7
    robby^5
    Registered Users Posts: 1,969 ✭✭✭robby^5


    It's DVR not PVR (I work there) :)

    I skip the ads completely which is handy because I find most ads these days are terrible...ever since the Pope of Advertising passed away last year :(


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    #8
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    robby^5 wrote: »
    It's DVR not PVR (I work there) :)

    DVRs (Digital Video Recorders) are also known as PVRs (Personal video recorder), I don't work there.

    I am surprised that no one notices them, as I get to the end of the ad break with FastForward I unfortunately have to rewind a bit to get the start of the next part of the show.


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    #9
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    A combination of

    No, Fast Forward really does away with ads completely for me.

    and

    No, I generally don't use a PVR as I download


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    #10
    lord lucan
    Registered Users Posts: 9,575 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    I skip the ads,fast forward through the lot of them at x30 on Sky+ so i don't see them.


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    #11
    Dman001
    Registered Users Posts: 5,534 ✭✭✭Dman001


    The very, very odd time when I fastforward and see an ad that looks interesting, I would rewind it back and watch it. This usually only applies to RTE/Sky advertising a new show or the time a TV Show will be shown.


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    #12
    KerranJast
    Registered Users Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭KerranJast


    I hardly ever see ads anymore. In fact I realised the other day that I've never seen the end credits for Lost. I love my American "cousins" :D


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    #13
    That_Guy
    Registered Users Posts: 51,342 ✭✭✭✭That_Guy


    I've often paused on that Coors ad. You know the one where all the people are rolling down the snowy mountain. I always thought that the people at the end spelled out something but turns it's just a design.


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    #14
    robby^5
    Registered Users Posts: 1,969 ✭✭✭robby^5


    Elmo wrote: »
    DVRs (Digital Video Recorders) are also known as PVRs (Personal video recorder), I don't work there.

    UPC calls them DVR's :P


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