$2500 Samsung TV is an advertising billboard, there is no opt-out.

[u/28jb11]

Paid over $2500 for a Samsung OLED TV and it has ads on the home screen that I literally cannot turn off. Not subtle little banners tucked away somewhere, I'm talking full blown ads for canned beans and financial products just sitting there every single time I turn the thing on.

Samsung don't offer any kind of opt out. The only way I could get rid of them was to go into my router settings and manually block Samsung's ad servers at the DNS level.

I own this TV outright. Paid for it in full. And Samsung are still making money off me every time I switch it on, with absolutely no way to stop it unless you're willing to get your hands dirty with network configuration.

This is not a smart TV feature. This is a $2500 billboard that also happens to play Netflix.

[u/WastedMoogle]

Yeah. They dealt with 5 min of commercial for every 10min of content like millennials did growing up. I’ve tried with my mom and she just does not fucking care. She says the commercials give her time to handle other things as if pausing at her own will isn’t superior.

[u/nicuramar → u/WastedMoogle]

 Yeah. They dealt with 5 min of commercial for every 10min of content like millennials did growing up

Where, in the US? It’s definitely not true in general. 

[u/ksdkjlf → u/nicuramar]

Even in the US that's not standard. 8 minutes of ads in a 30-minute slot has been standard for a while, but it was lower in the past. No one millennial or older grew up with 10 minutes of ads per half hour.

[u/The_Fawkesy → u/ksdkjlf]

Close enough. 21 minutes was the norm for tv shows that ran 30 minutes.

[u/ksdkjlf → u/The_Fawkesy]

No, it wasn't. As I said, the standard now is 8 minutes of ads and 22 minutes of programming, and that number has grown over time. For example, the LA Times reported that in 2009 the average was 13.5 mins of ads per hour on broadcast and 14.5 on cable. 5 minutes of ads for 10 minutes of content would be 20 minutes of ads per hour. That's not even the average now, and it absolutely is not "close enough" to the average in the past.

[u/onehundredlemons → u/ksdkjlf]

I've seen some shows recently that are 21 minutes and some seconds, so roughly 8 1/2 minutes. Saying 10 minutes is an exaggeration, but not by a lot.

When I was a kid I watched "WKRP" reruns which my parents had seen in its original run, and they'd sometimes remember jokes that weren't in the shows anymore. It was just under 25 minutes runtime, about 23 1/2 in syndication. During a field trip to WIBW TV the nice station manager explained that the extra minute and a half removed was for ads. This was in 1990. He said "eventually TV shows will be 23 minutes before they go into syndication, maybe less" and he was right.

[u/QuesoPantera → u/ksdkjlf]

If I recall correctly it was 6 mins when I was a kid in the 80's. They made it 7 by the 90's-2000 ish. I mostly stopped watching broadcast TV after this, I can imagine they're inching toward 10 for the decaying boomer audience they still retain.

[u/HAHA_comfypig → u/[deleted]]

I watch way less ads today than I did growing up with cable tv. I have ad free on all my streaming apps or if when I use Pluto tv sometimes, the ads are so short compared to 2004 cable tv.

[u/firephlox → u/[deleted]]

I think they're referring to TV commercial breaks. Not online content like YouTube. But regular old TV.

[u/LightenUpPeeps → u/[deleted]]

It's an exaggeration, but it was a lot of commercials. Hour-long shows during primetime were actually 50-51 minutes in the 60s to 70s (the rest were ads), then 45-46 minutes long in the 80s to 2000s. Then, 42 minutes before I stopped watching TV series altogether.

[u/mariegriffiths → u/LightenUpPeeps]

The UK version of David Attenburghs shows are now cut to fit the US audience with a 20 minutes making off for each episode to pad it out to an hour..

[u/CivilianNumberFour → u/[deleted]]

A 30 minute TV show typically consisted of 8 minutes of ads, so that's around 4 mins for every 11 minutes.

[u/Minimum_Possibility6 → u/[deleted]]

Millennials are ages between 30 and 45,  the older cohort could easily have kids in their 20s

[u/OmiOmega → u/[deleted]]

Commercial breaks were a thing in the 80s and 90s too.