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Old Dec 19, 2008 | 10:55 am
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Originally Posted by Tuneman1984
Anybody else find the endless stream of ads on ACTV annoying? I had the pleasure of discovering this morning that they've removed the scroll bar during the ads so you can't blaze through them. I can sort of understand why, but that means the volume control also goes away....and it just so happens that the last guy in my seat had the volume CRANKED so I got blasted and had no control (other than to eventually yank the cord out once my brain kicked in)

Any other rants?
Half the people would fast forward through the commercials, and this would make the system crash. So this was apparently the fix that Thales came up with...

But I am sure AC loved the idea and brought it up to advertisers.
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