Originally Posted by
PLeblond
I don't go see movies very often, but last time I went, there were a bunch of commercials before the movie started. I did not read the terms and conditions, but I was specifically paying to see the movie and was subjected to commercials.
Should there be an * on my movie ticket saying I would be be "subject to a forced viewing of ads from which [the theatre] makes additional revenue."?
True but then wouldn't that also have to be on tickets to events, bus tickets, et al?
There is a small level of transparency...when you go to the cinema, they can tell you how much garbage there is before the movie. I showed up 20 minutes late the other day and asked, was told 22 minutes, so I bought a ticket, walked in hadn't missed anything other than some opening credits. It's worse depending on where you go too, in my CAN/USA experience it averages like 18-20 minutes, in Puerto Rico it was 30, in Korea it was like 15, Brazil was less.
My problem with these ads, is they're just around too long. I got so tired of "SO YOU'RE CANADIAN!?" and the guy wandering around SFO. The Enbridge ad is wearing thin too. I'd like to see them go from 1 month (feels standard) down to 2 weeks. But I swear that Porsche ad was around way longer than a month.
Originally Posted by
D582
This is probably not the popular opinion but this doesn't really bother me. What bothers me is IFE I have to pay for. I would rather have to watch a couple of ads than have to pay for IFE.
Maybe 90 seconds is too long. If it were say 30 seconds before a TV show and 60 seconds before a film than that might be a more reasonable compromise.
IFE is not free to provide both from a hardware/maintenance perspective and a content perspective so I would rather a few adverts be used to offset the costs than have user fees.
Agreed, I hate UA's inconsistency with the IFE/AVOD/Nothing/Streaming across their fleet, and I have paid for the liveTV or movie once or twice, but I'd much rather watch an ad or two, specially when the dollar isn't worth squat, a $5.99 movie turns into like $8.