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

Elmo

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?

Richard Dower

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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

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.

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

lord lucan

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

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.

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"

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.

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