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arrow-up138arrow-down1external-linkNetflix axes its $10 ‘Basic’ plan in the US and UKwww.engadget.com@yamfarmer to Movies and TV [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square9cross-posted to: [email protected]technology
minus-squareshmaniolinkEnglish6•1 year ago Subscribers can expect to see an average of 4 minutes of ads an hour at around 15 to 30 seconds each Isn’t this a lot? I can’t imagine watching a movie and being interrupted every 5 minutes by an ad. Do they clump them together and play 8 minutes of ads between the two halves of a two hour movie?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•1 year agoBack in the day sitcoms are 21minutes so around 8-9 minutes if ads in half an hour. 4 minutes is probably tolerable to some. But this is still a paid tier of Netflix right?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•1 year agoCable tv used to do 42 minute shows with 18 minutes of ads. It probably still does, but it used to, too.
minus-squareHunter2linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoIt’s probably 1 or 2 minutes of ads every 20 minutes.
Isn’t this a lot? I can’t imagine watching a movie and being interrupted every 5 minutes by an ad.
Do they clump them together and play 8 minutes of ads between the two halves of a two hour movie?
Back in the day sitcoms are 21minutes so around 8-9 minutes if ads in half an hour. 4 minutes is probably tolerable to some. But this is still a paid tier of Netflix right?
Cable tv used to do 42 minute shows with 18 minutes of ads. It probably still does, but it used to, too.
It’s probably 1 or 2 minutes of ads every 20 minutes.