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Today's gripe: "On Demand" (and what they've done to it).
I really liked On-Demand when I discovered it. I used it much like folks here have said they use their TiVo or DVR's - I could watch recorded shows or movies, pause or stop them when I like, resume them and (most importantly for TV shows) Fast Forward over the commercials.
But NOWWW..... here's what they're doing... they're disabling the FF on a lot of networks & TV shows.
This, I find, is even worse than watching regular TV, because with regular TV, I can at least channel surf during commercials, go check the news, check the weather channel, look at the guide, etc. I can't do any of that with On-Demand with FF disabled. So you HAVE to sit through the commercials (or leave the room until they're over).
Last week I missed Fear the Walking Dead (yeah, I know, I didn't want to get into it, but I started watching, etc., etc.) so I figured I'd catch up with the On-Demand version of that episode. I found it, put it on, and text came up saying "Fast Forwarding MAY be disabled during this program." So I hit the FF button to see... Luckily, it starts fast forwarding. Good for me, right?
Good for me, wrong! Little did I know... as soon as it got to a commercial, I could not fast forward any more! It let me FF any part of the show, but NONE of the commercials.
Everyday it seems like more and more head games (and every quarter the cable companies raise the prices as they increase the commercials & pop-up ads while decreasing ease of access & programming by running info-mercials all night).