Just let me send you $20 for an Olympics "pass" and give me access to multiple streams so I can pick which events to watch — without commercials.
Is that bad business?
Because I'm afraid I am sitting out the Olympics this year. :-(
Is that bad business?
Because I'm afraid I am sitting out the Olympics this year. :-(
'Just pay 100 merits to skip..Oh you've used all your skips this hour.'
Beeeeeeeeep 'Resume viewing, resume viewing.
“upgrade to premium today to disable these annoying ads”
We get closer to this every single day.
But this is HN, 1/4[1] of the UB are probably in ads one way or another (ie work for fb/goog et al), another 1/4 of the UB are of the 'growth hacking win at all costs wannabe-CEO (ie lying and creating fake accts a la reddit, you name it).
But I hope another 1/4 of us are conscientious objectors. Leaving 1/4 for those who can't be bothered.
Anyways I usually assume 1/4-1/2 or more of HN will usually disagree with what I say, I don't mind.
[1] All numbers pulled from my behind.
So one day of watching?
A regular one-hour-long TV show has about 4 commercial breaks, each with about 10 commercials, so that's 40 commercials an hour. If one was really into the Olympics, they might have their TV on for at least 10 hours during the day (while sometimes doing other tasks). 10 hours * 40 comercials an hour = 400 commercials a day.
Sports broadcasts usually have more commercial breaks of shorter varrying lengths, but I'd estimate it averages the same, if not a higher commercial count per hour.
https://www.nbcsports.com/live
It also mentions Peacock, so I would be confused where to go.
But some events aren't on any of NBC's channels and can only be found at nbcolympics.com (which is the same as what's in the NBC Sports app) which feels like about 50% ad content.
To be clear: you have to pay to even access the content locked away in the NBC Sports App / nbcolympics.com by having a subscription via an NBC partner (YouTube TV, Fubo, traditional cable) for the privilege of watching an infuriating number of ads.
Worse, there's not even any ad variety. It's the same 3 or 4 ads, and the rest of the ad-space is filled with NBC self-promotional content. In some cases, NBC even shrinks down the live coverage to about 50% of the screen so that they can promote their peacock channel to you.
> But some events aren't on any of NBC's channels and can only be found at nbcolympics.com