Skye

Ah... When I hear the shipping forecast at 1am on BBC Radio 4, I've stayed up too late. It's interesting how Radio 4 is used... The shipping forecast and also apparently how it's used as one of the ways to see if the UK is still standing.

But now I'm reminded, it's 1:33, so I'm going to sleep now.

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.

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...

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...

It's only a ratio of 2250 estimated metres for each actual metre of wet string, perfect for low cost broadband needs! :p

I'm still amazed that it works at all, but I guess that does show how fault tolerant ADSL is...?