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Hi there
It's not the commercials - but the QUALITY of them these days that's so inane.
I remember an old commercial -- it showed a picture of a seemingly empty building with a phone ringing -- a man then appeared going through rooms until he found a phone under a thick layer of dust -- he blew the dust away and on the phone it said "Carlsberg Complaints Dept" !!! (Carlsberg is a type of lager / beer for those not in the know).
Another good one - also by a Danish beer company was a Huge truck pulls up outside a small house. Truck driver rings door bell -- old grey-haired woman answers door - truck driver asks to go to the Bog (can / WC) - woman sees Tuborg Export on side of truck and says Yes please do. -- As soon as truck driver enters she opens a trapdoor and deposits Truck driver in the cellar.
Commercial ends with "Tuborg so good - The Danes hate to see it leave". !!
They don't make commercials like that any more so no wonder people don't watch them. For TV catch up services are infinitely better so no commercials even on commercial channels (at least on the SKY catch up service).
Mind you again if you use the TV catch up services whether downloading or via streams you still need a decent UNCAPPED service -- it doesn't have to be mega fast either - a 3 - 4 MB/s service will easily stream you an HD movie at full 1080p quality. For me I'd choose almost ANY uncapped service over a capped one at almost any speed.
Cheers
jimbo