Re:One word - ads (Score 1)

Except for stuff like The Apprentice and Top Chef, I gave up network TV a decade ago. When cable came, I thought I would love their more focused programming but then I started dropping off after they'd force 7 minute or more commercials on us. I don't even watch TV on the computer. It's easier to just rent or buy the DVD for the programs/movies I want. I was on network TV on 60 minutes and the announcers for 60 minutes actually DROOLED about how SHORT their commercial breaks were. Fast forward to now on cable TV when I thought I would love watching the entire series of Lord of the Rings each night BUT in the right bottom corner of the TV screen, the cable channel was DROOLING YES!! about the SHORTness of their commercial breaks. I was playing my video games at the same time and realized it's not fun at all to just be a passive couch potato watching cable tv even if it IS my favorite movie. I'd rather watch the movie on DVD on my OWN TIME, IN MY OWN WAY, able to stop and resume it whenever I want to eat, go to the bathroom, talk on the phone with a friend, play a video game, get on the internet, etc. That's what the internet gives. It gives us the right to DO WHAT WE WANT WHEN WE WANT and not be SPOONFED by the commercial big companies.