Sundance Channel joins the "let's interrupt movies with commercials" crowd!

[Mark]

First it was IFC (Independent Film Channel) that decided to go the way
of AMC and start interrupting their films with commercials. Now, it's
the Sundance Channel. The two premiere cable stations for independent
films are not both interrupting their films with commercials. I
watched Carlos 1-3 on Sundance over the weekend and every 30 minutes
we got an interruption for some Fashion Week promo. It didn't last
long but it was so jarring as to completely ruin watching the film.

I guess the only way to see uninterrupted films is through the premium
channels (HBO, Starz, Showtime) or TCM.

[MFalc1]

I'd rather have the commercials before and after the film instead of
during.

Mark L. Falconer
http://www.youtube.com/terrymcca
http://www.poetry-arts-confidential.blogspot.com

Recent films/DVD releases seen:
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[moviePig]

On Mar 7, 3:48 pm, MFalc1 <mfa...@aol.com> wrote:
> On Mar 7, 5:50 am, Mark <weiss.sl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > First it was IFC (Independent Film Channel) that decided to go the way
> > of AMC and start interrupting their films with commercials. Now, it's
> > the Sundance Channel. The two premiere cable stations for independent
> > films are not both interrupting their films with commercials. I
> > watched Carlos 1-3 on Sundance over the weekend and every 30 minutes
> > we got an interruption for some Fashion Week promo. It didn't last
> > long but it was so jarring as to completely ruin watching the film.
>
> > I guess the only way to see uninterrupted films is through the premium
> > channels (HBO, Starz, Showtime) or TCM.
>
> I'd rather have the commercials before and after the film instead of
> during.

You'd have them, but would they have *you*?...

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[Tom]

Considering AMC, IFC and Sundance are all operated by the same media
group, it was just a matter of time.

Tom

[Russell Watson]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 05:50:19 -0800 (PST), Mark <weiss...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

Yeah, there was something I wanted to see on IFC the other night and I
popped over there expecting it to be commercial-free and was surprised
when they popped into an ad break. Last time I watched something on
there they didn't have them.

[tomcervo]

On Mar 7, 8:50 am, Mark <weiss.sl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> First it was IFC (Independent Film Channel) that decided to go the way
> of AMC and start interrupting their films with commercials. Now, it's
> the Sundance Channel. The two premiere cable stations for independent
> films are not both interrupting their films with commercials. I
> watched Carlos 1-3 on Sundance over the weekend and every 30 minutes
> we got an interruption for some Fashion Week promo. It didn't last
> long but it was so jarring as to completely ruin watching the film.

Yes, because viewers watching an intense character study of a modern
terrorist are the PERFECT target demo for FashBash 2011. Geniuses.

[George McCarter]

I am guessing a good number of people record commercial-free movies -
I do. Sundance now joins AMC and IFC as channels I no longer care
about, and which Comcast can drop at any time for all I give a damn.
Thank God I got Carlos on disk just in time.

[Flasherly]

On Mar 7, 4:48 pm, MFalc1 <mfa...@aol.com> wrote:
> On Mar 7, 5:50 am, Mark <weiss.sl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > First it was IFC (Independent Film Channel) that decided to go the way
> > of AMC and start interrupting their films with commercials. Now, it's
> > the Sundance Channel. The two premiere cable stations for independent
> > films are not both interrupting their films with commercials. I
> > watched Carlos 1-3 on Sundance over the weekend and every 30 minutes
> > we got an interruption for some Fashion Week promo. It didn't last
> > long but it was so jarring as to completely ruin watching the film.
>
> > I guess the only way to see uninterrupted films is through the premium
> > channels (HBO, Starz, Showtime) or TCM.
>
> I'd rather have the commercials before and after the film instead of
> during.

You have a selection of offerings from among direct satellite
connects, cable and fiber optic feeds -- each of which will provide a
mandatory control box to ensure only the utmost in sophisticated
entertainment is given to you. Designed that way, these modern boxes
may now communicate back to a provider its channels you're watching,
when and how often. Commercials interruptions, among a sophisticated
array of setup options, as easily may circumvented by inserting
signals respective to broadcast streams, for the box to note a time
lapse to blank them out in deferential modes, say, while listening an
alternative audio or another broadcast channel during the normative
processed programming of any commercial interruption. That you will
and do not object is for the exact reason you will pay a minimum
required amount for the car you regionally drive, equipped with a
couple thousand in extra seat-belt and tire-pressure monitoring
systems, including a radio that only operate after you pay your
subscription to the Sirus network, all of which is required of you if
you wish expediently to travel without due interruption in this
dimension. Although I haven't a bus pass, a bicycle that works, nor
have watched TeeVee in numerous years, at least, this afternoon I did
install an ART studio amplifier into a mixer to overcome decibel
output limitations on commercial-grade products. I could not sit here
in parallel with my hair from the floor were this not so.

[ralph]

> You have a selection of offerings from among direct satellite
> connects, cable and fiber optic feeds -- each of which will provide a
> mandatory control box to ensure only the utmost in sophisticated
> entertainment is given to you.

On what planet are we provided only the utmost in sophisticated
entertainment?

[Flasherly]

On Mar 23, 8:48 am, ralph <ralphben...@nowreviewing.com> wrote:

>
> On what planet are we provided only the utmost in sophisticated
> entertainment?

Predicates of planar consonance being a same predicate, a same plane,
when we know to say cultures exhibit to an utmost sense, to enactment
to form, by ideals dramatised for educational entertainment. To say I
suspect a flanger is being utilized in Tron Legacy voice dubovers
therefore need not predicate we, indeed, are located on the Indian
subcontinent and watching drama as it's traditionally sung;- Were we,
just as it wouldn't therefore be sophistry to suggest there's room on
a planet beside Tron Legacy, and rather we do some blues from Peter
Green after the original Fleetwood Mac and filmed from when he left to
live in India.

[Tom]

Peter Green... +1, Flash...

Tom

[Flasherly]

On Mar 23, 4:18 pm, Tom <drso...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> Peter Green... +1, Flash...

I could buy an Indian car, duty free, new for $2000USD. For you,
that's five by what I paid for a top American-rated import counterpart
off Pacific Rim manufacturing facilities. It's small Indian car,
though. But, then, so is my Hyundai. When a Western reporter asked
the spokesperson representing Indian manufacturing interests how
anyone could realistically be expected to fit comfortably into their
car, the Indian replied - 'That is not respectfully, Sahib, a valid
problem within mutual perspectives for a normative to concern the
Indian without your American obesity issues.' Having established
pleasantries, we will then charter an American import entry, hire some
engineers to cheaply polish quality standards, split their rate for
future residuals over Indian supply interests, no more than at twenty-
five percent, and pocket the rest within a government leeway granted
cars marked minimally priced at $10000USD. I'll personally oversea
our support department, whom I'll institute at a minimum wage off the
displaced base of Michigan unionists from auto and government workers,
lacking both or either tenure and sufficiency forthwith.

[ri...@matchlightfilms.com]

In the beginning was "Pay For TV" i.e. cable/satellite and the movies were included... commercial Free! Now we pay on top of pay with commercialized programming on top of the paid cable service. Making a list of sponsors that adverise on Sundance and IFC and the rest of those networks that sport movies and sell flight time and never purchasing their products or services again. Yes boycott!!!

[johnpgo...@gmail.com]

You would think Robert Redford would have an inch of class. The ads drive you crazy when watching a film. Art channel? That’s a joke! Jp gordon.

[moviePig]

On 11/17/2017 9:30 AM, johnpgo...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> You would think Robert Redford would have an inch of class. The ads drive you crazy when watching a film. Art channel? That’s a joke! Jp gordon.

Unfortunately, his 'inch of class' doesn't give him a yard of money to
resist forever the persistent financial pressures applied by commerce.

[peterjc...@gmail.com]

On Friday, November 17, 2017 at 9:30:56 AM UTC-5, johnpgo...@gmail.com wrote:
> You would think Robert Redford would have an inch of class. The ads drive you crazy when watching a film. Art channel? That’s a joke! Jp gordon.

Redford cashed out of SundanceTV back in 2008.

[Lewis]

Redford has nothing to do with the Sundance Channel.

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but then a lot of nice things turn bad out there

[steven...@gmail.com]

I just have to say that the commercials that they added are an annoyance, but now the old R rated movies are cut to ribbons because they are totally edited for content making some R movies frustratingly unwatchable. Sundance totally sucks, but it didn't used to. IFC, while having commercials , at least is not edited for content.

[RichA]

On Saturday, 7 July 2018 00:24:31 UTC-4, steven...@gmail.com wrote:
> I just have to say that the commercials that they added are an annoyance, but now the old R rated movies are cut to ribbons because they are totally edited for content making some R movies frustratingly unwatchable. Sundance totally sucks, but it didn't used to. IFC, while having commercials , at least is not edited for content.

I sure hope Sundance is free, because anyone paying for a movie that shows edited movies is...insane.