He wouldn't have gotten those games without GT and he's already lied about people that use Adblock and DVRs being the scum of the earth. Why would he be so pissed if he didn't have skin in the game? Also he is a businessman and a salesmen, when was the last time they were known for their honesty?

Just like he gave a genuine opinion that he does it for free. Even tho GT gave him connections to the developers and publishers and an outlet to create content that gave the same developers and publishers a reason to furnish him with games. Not to mention the fact that he owns stock in GT which is compensation in its own right.

Also don't be mistaken he is a salesmen. He sells opinions, analyses, and analytics. You don't get an MBA without knowing business and all business requires being a good salesmen.

End of Patcher confirmed? Good. Most of the time he is wromg.

patchy has a point tho.

as long as sites control their ads i don't see the problem. 

I use Adblock. But I use it as a security feature. And or for abusive sites. Sites I go to normally I have ads allowed. Because that's the support they need. I use to run a YT channel. I had to give up because I lost a lot money from bad viewership and low income. $8,000 year in buying review items. Then the 8-20 hrs to edit episodes. All while doing schooling and another full time job. VS $1,000 a year... from ad revenue. I had VGC white-listed for a long time. But the ads would eventually totally lock firefox, or lag it. So I had to give up on them.

YT ads work this way. 15-30 second ads can't be skipped. Anything longer can be skipped 5 seconds after it starts. There is also a grace peroid. If you watch a lot of videos after each other. The video ads will not play most of the time. And only the pop up ones over the video will play. Any person who has a ad on the video itself is a YT partner. That's how you tell. YT will not put a ad on your video. Now if you steal content. The company owner can activate ad rev on your video. Which would make you think YT themselves put the ad on your video.

You are right it's not publically traded which means the fact that he was given stock options means he was given compensation. Go ahead ask him on his next show if he owns stock in GT. He will tell you he does. Hes mentioned stocks a few times on his twitter feed. 

Ratings that include people watching shows on their DVR within 3 days is called Live+3 and has only begun to gain importance because the networks tried their best to convince the advertisers to accept those ratings a few years ago. But for many years the advertisers didn't really consider Live+3 ratings because people can just skip through adverts.

Live+7 which includes ratings of people who view shows on their DVR within a week are not really considered when calculating advertising rates. Because of declining ratings for all shows every year, networks are trying their best to convince advertisers to now consider a show's Live+7 ratings when calculating rates. It still isn't accepted by advertisers.  

DVR's can increase popularity but they do not necessarily increase Live ratings for shows. This is the most important thing for a show. You'll notice that today shows are no where near as huge as they were in the past. This is because of all the alternate viewing methods available and all that lowers a show's Live ratings, thus lowering advertising rates. 

How would you look like an idiot? You'd be asking a legitimate question. The only way you'd look like an idiot is if I was right. Hell you could use my name and I wouldn't care. If I'm full of it you can easily prove me wrong, but you know I'm not which is why you won't ask him on his show. Also read what I said. I said he talks about stocks a few times on twitter which he does. You can see for yourself https://twitter.com/michaelpachter. 

Okay, well I still don't think you should just completely put a networks decision to cancel a show on DVR users. As far as my experience goes most DVR users wouldn't be watching most of what they watch if it wasn't for the ability to record it. So as far as I'm concerned those are just extra viewers the providers wouldn't have otherwise.

BECAUSE of DVR I watch EVERY episode of the shows I like. I'm also able to share those shows with other people who in turn become fans. My parents however who don't use DVR love NCIS and want to watch every episode. But because they get busy, or are at work or just forget, end up missing half the episodes. So the providers can decide if a person not watching at all or watching a few days later is better. I think ultimately the latter is.

Also, this isn't the 80's. Content manufacturers have internet ad revenue, DVD/blu ray sales, on demand, syndication, digital purchases and merchandise to make profits off of.

I'm only being so argumentative because I don't like you basically saying that people like me are the reason shows die. I contribute to the growth of media non-stop throughout my life. More than most people I've known. I never steal anything and am very loyal to the things I like.