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Meanwhile in the UK... there tends to be a lot less advertisements on TV, and when shows from the US are played, there are points where they left room for an ad-break, which isn't used. For the ultimate in no-advertising, you just watch a BBC channel. Apparently there is a limit of 9 minutes of advertising per hour according to this document from the regulator... https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-co...

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Afaik most countries in Europe have at least a couple of TV stations that are really restricted when it comes to commercials. Usually supported by the government and/or citizens.

I remember that we could receive government funded Austrian ORF 1 in Germany. They usually showed the same movie as other German commercial TV stations at the same time but without ads. Saving around 1 hour per movie.

There also is (was?) a daily limit on advertising for german stations, even commercial. Thus barely any ads at night. Some shows even had to be classified as add due to heavy product placement, so we barely got any other adds that day.

And on the main channels, the limit is 7 mins/hour - these are averages across the day, but there are further restrictions for children's programming, including that programmes of 30 mins or less cannot be interrupted by adverts.

My kids know about three channels

"Bbc" (watching "do they know" at the moment) "Amazon" "Netflix"

We went to the cinema to watch Paddington last month. They had barely any idea what the adverts before the film were.

Do they still do adverts on DVDs of films? It was a pain because you couldn't skip them. Guess that's why stuff like Netflix is so popular...

Not on the props pig one they watched in the car today - some unskippable logos and copyright warnings that annoy me and remind me why I rip dvds to the home NAS, but no adverts.

Yet rarely watch dvds. I've noticed Amazon has adverts on their fire tv stick on some shows though, but we use the built in lg tv app which doesn't.

well from personal experience, Disney DVDs (used to) have adverts at the start trying to get you to watch every other Disney film every made, and they either blocked skipping or made it incredibly hard to skip to the start of the actual video.

"Disney Fastplay" rings a bell. It's rare we watch one, and I pop the disc in while we're getting ready to sit down. Not great, but they did learn.

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