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add-sub-mul-divyesterday at 8:26 PM1 replyview on HN

A difference between cable and streaming is that cable has DVRs that let you skip commercials if you want, while streaming tech introduced unskippable ads.


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vel0cityyesterday at 8:43 PM

> cable has DVRs that let you skip commercials if you want

The last time I had DirecTV several channels had managed to have unskippable ads in recordings. Paramount was egregious with this and was the first channel I saw with this "feature" enabled.

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