completely agree with what you're saying here. we have commercials on tv because it pays for the FREE service, why do we need them at movie theatres?
I think we should start a walk-out boycott. anytime we go to the movies if we see commercials, we immediately get up and walk out and demand our money back. if enough people did it, they'd take notice. (I'm talking like a national-scale thing)
dean, i would definitely do this. i should be paid to watch advertisements. in school, when we watched "channel one", all the classrooms got free TVs and shown a news program every day in exchange for showing us ads. that system made sense. this - doesn't.
we pay for cable and still see comercials, explain that one...
the idea was, originally, you wouldn't...
you don't have commercials on all cable though. Like hbo or starz.
I'm talking broadcast. which is completely free. cable's another deal. UHF/VHF is all around us, and if you get good enough reception where you live with some rabbit ears or a roof antenna, then just use that. save yourself $40 a month.
But you won't get as many channels. even if you get "Family" Basic cable (all broadcast+USA, Discovery, MTV etc.) which all have advertising, it'll cost you because the cable company provides a better service than broadcase, and because those cable channels charge the cable company to carry them. you pay the price, because you want quality reception, and you want more choice of channels.
prices are def. overinflated though.