Osc89 on 12 July 2013
| endimion said: I wonder where people got the idea that when they pay they pay to not have ads????? that has never been true and is still not true.... that comes from apps on smartphones and media distribution that explicitly have a non ad supported format at a premium.... but it has never been a standard for a paid service unless the fee is explicitly to remove ads...... |
I think most of the time when you pay for something you don't get ads as well. If you buy a digital copy of a TV show it doesn't have ads like the broadcast version, or if you buy a CD it doesn't have ads like the radio. If you have ads as well, you are basically having an additional charge.
I think this ad focus is very much a US thing and is pretty unappealing to the rest of the world. Here in the UK, we have 7 minutes of adverts per hour instead of the 16 minutes the US has, and far less frequent breaks. I know from experience that this makes the TV in the US pretty unwatchable for people who aren't used to it, so I hope Microsoft are aware of this.
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