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TiVo Plans to End Free Automatic Commercial Skipping in November, Tests Paid Premium Replacement Service (cordcuttersnews.com)
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[–] 8 points 1 day ago (1 child)

My mom watched Coronation Street. She wasn't home when it was on because she had a job like so many other people.

We got this VCR that would record the show then erase the commercials because networks couldn't resist playing ads louder so it would detects the volume increase and tag those as ad starts and finishes. When you went back to watch the show the ads would fast forward.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

    Ironically, it's those ephemeral local ads you were erasing that were worth saving and not the shows that are still available.

    Edit: If someone says they have a VHS copies of the X-Files, I wouldn't take them UNLESS they had all the advertisements. I can get the X-Files streamed or on DVD or Blueway or MK4. What I can't get is a 1:1 recording of the experience of watching the show as it was watched at the time in Dubuque, Iowa. Now, yes, commercials do suck, but it's a little different when they're a peek into a lost world.

    *(I'd also need to get a VCR player and a CRT, too.)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    People are downvoting you, but I get it. My dad loved old time radio shows. And his favorite part was the old advertisements.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    Dunno if it still works, but I use to ask the Amazon echo to play Abbott and Costello (from "who's on first?" fame). What it played included the commercials of the day.

    You could hear the advertisers make the claim that Lucky Strike cigarettes were approved by a majority of doctors.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    I have a copy of The Hunt For Red October that was taped in December off of HBO, and it's got this ad before it for...you know those children's games, it's a plastic enclosure, you fill it with water, there are like little plastic rings or balls, and you like push a button to squirt water around the enclosure to move the rings around, it's like if you explained the concept of Pinball to someone, and the only language you share in common is Klingon? I have a late 80's early 90's ad for that.

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