Ads on tivo central page

[clnorth]

anyone else think this is annoying and just wrong that we pay for service and get advertising on our tivo home pages?? I am just not happy about it at all.

[mchips]

You don't have to look at the ads if you don't want to... they're about as unobtrusive as they come, and help to keep the service fee down...

I actually do look at them from time to time, when one catches my interest.

It's just an item on the menu, and no one is forced to select them.

So, to answer your question, I don't find them annoying at all.

[Moebius]

You don't have to look at the ads if you don't want to... they're about as unobtrusive as they come, and help to keep the service fee down...

I actually do look at them from time to time, when one catches my interest.

It's just an item on the menu, and no one is forced to select them.

So, to answer your question, I don't find them annoying at all.

Ditto.

[maki]

There's advertising everywhere you look. You pay for cable and there's ads all over in that service. ;)

[gjustice]

Including a new ad block on the Time Warner (formerly Comcast) DVR's guide. You scroll down the guide and have to scroll again to get off the "clickable" ad block.

[JimSpence]

If you are unhappy with the ads on your TiVo menu page, just what do you think about all of the obtrusive banners we get on almost every channel? Granted they aren't advertising products, but upcoming shows. However, they very often block opening credits.

And what about the channel logos?

No need to respond as these are just rhetorical questions.

[mick66]

anyone else think this is annoying and just wrong that we pay for service and get advertising on our tivo home pages?? I am just not happy about it at all.

I pay to have a newspaper delivered daily and it's full of advertising and not just news. Anyone else think that this is annoying/wrong/outrageous?

I have a few extra clues that are just laying around. If you need one just let me know and maybe we can work something out. :rolleyes:

[bpurcell]

At the very top of this forum, I can see links to five ads. Ads are just a part of our culture; not much you can do about it. If Tivo wants to be profitable, they must look at ALL possible revenue makers, and still provide a positive customer experience. I think the ads on Tivo central fit that pattern. I often click on the ads, especially if they are movie trailers.

[timo123]

Occasionally I see an ad or two that I may click on if it sounds interesting (There was a great Porche ad a while back) but for the most part I do not notice them. Given time, you will stop noticing them and wonder why you complained in the first place. :)

[ZeoTiVo]

Oh gosh - no one has ever noticed these before in the many years this forum and TiVo has been around ;)

[Atomike]

Well clnorth, I seem to be the only one, but I agree with you 100%. It seems most people didn't quite understand your comment, or didn't read or think about it - not unusual. The issue is not the nature of advertising. The OP was talking about his simple dislike for this tactic. Sure newspapers have ads. genius. TV shows have annoying banner ads. Do you like them? Don't you think TV shows should stop putting massive banner animations on their shows? Or do you love them? You know, it IS possible to still be a blind Tivo lover and still admit obvious truths - such as the fact that ads are annoying.
Lets all be honest. Wouldn't all of you prefer if Tivo DIDN'T have those ads on your nice clean main page? That's all the OP is saying.

Zeo - what do you think of people who post simply to get their post-count up? I know what I think of them....

[yunlin12]

Anyone use Firefox with the Adblock extension? It can do wild card blocking of anything on the web, just right click on an image or flash to block it. It is similar to Firefox's built in blocking mechanism, but a lot more powerful. I can also edit filters manually if I know exactly what to block. The blocked element is gone completely, not even taking up the extra space on the web page.

For example there's an image on the Tivo home page from ad.doubleclick.net. I use a filter http://*.doubleclick.* to block it. I've been using this extension for a long time now, and the doubleclick stuff is the only thing I'm blocking off of the Tivo home page. Other stuff like Tivo's own promotions are probably useful sometime and I wouldn't want to block them.

[bidger]

I'm confused. Are we talking about TiVo's home page (http://www.tivo.com/0.0.asp) or the TiVo Central screen displayed on the unit?

[ZeoTiVo]

Well clnorth, I seem to be the only one, but I agree with you 100%. It seems most people didn't quite understand your comment, or didn't read or think about it - not unusual. The issue is not the nature of advertising. The OP was talking about his simple dislike for this tactic. Sure newspapers have ads. genius. TV shows have annoying banner ads. Do you like them? Don't you think TV shows should stop putting massive banner animations on their shows? Or do you love them? You know, it IS possible to still be a blind Tivo lover and still admit obvious truths - such as the fact that ads are annoying.
Lets all be honest. Wouldn't all of you prefer if Tivo DIDN'T have those ads on your nice clean main page? That's all the OP is saying.

Zeo - what do you think of people who post simply to get their post-count up? I know what I think of them....

I fully understood what the OP said and I have seen it fully flogged down in many threads before. So I gave him a razz on it - the lack of any real content in my post was on purpose to mirror yet another thread being started on a tired old subject that had nothing new to be said about it.

The mods could change my post count to (6 actually - I want to post links) right now and I could care less as long as I keep my username. In fact would a mod please just set my post count to (6 actually - I want to post links)? thanks.


PS - now that I think of it not one person in my family has ever even made mention of the yellow star or even opened it. They all love TiVo so the answer is some can love the TiVo DVR and use it all the time and not even take notice of the yellow star.

[mchips]

The mods could change my post count to 0 right now and I could care less as long as I keep my username. In fact would a mod please just set my post count to 0? thanks. Don't worry about it... that's his only argument when he doesn't have one...

He tried to throw that at me once, that I must just be posting to increase my post count, and his daily post count is higher than mine... :eek:

Atomike - 0.44 posts per day
Me - 0.28 posts per day

He doesn't get how people don't all agree... To him, there's only one truth, and that's his... :rolleyes:

[ZeoTiVo]

Don't worry about it... that's his only argument when he doesn't have one...

He tried to throw that at me once, that I must just be posting to increase my post count, and his daily post count is higher than mine... :eek:

Atomike - 0.44 posts per day
Me - 0.28 posts per day

He doesn't get how people don't all agree... To him, there's only one truth, and that's his... :rolleyes:

well truth in advertising is that I have (8.97 posts per day)
so he is right I make a lot of posts - but it is not about post count to me at all. I have seen great first posts here. It is about having a better argument than - "you just said that to get a post count" or "You are just a fanboy" those are definitely the desperate act of someone with no other argument to make.

so I was simply truthful (as I try to be in all posts) that the mods could set me to (6 actually - I want to post links) and keep it at that number. I rarely look at post count and could care less about mine.

[classicX]

Well clnorth, I seem to be the only one, but I agree with you 100%. It seems most people didn't quite understand your comment, or didn't read or think about it - not unusual. The issue is not the nature of advertising. The OP was talking about his simple dislike for this tactic. Sure newspapers have ads. genius. TV shows have annoying banner ads. Do you like them? Don't you think TV shows should stop putting massive banner animations on their shows? Or do you love them? You know, it IS possible to still be a blind Tivo lover and still admit obvious truths - such as the fact that ads are annoying.
Lets all be honest. Wouldn't all of you prefer if Tivo DIDN'T have those ads on your nice clean main page? That's all the OP is saying.

Zeo - what do you think of people who post simply to get their post-count up? I know what I think of them....

I don't think understanding his post is the problem. The rebuttals I see here are not disputing the fact that ads can be annoying. They are IMO honest commentaries about the fact that there are varying degrees of annoyance, and the notion that these ads are not bothersome at all. I'm sure you would split the vote if you took a poll on whether or not people would want Tivo to remove these ads.

That said, we all can agree that advertisements serve several functions in our society, including informing the public about products or services, paying for nearly all of our television / newspaper / magazine, etc. production costs, garnering income for the advertiser, and entertaining us in and of themselves. (Everyone remembers the Bud "Whasaaaap!" commercials, right? How many times were those commercials downloaded, by beer drinkers and non-beer drinkers alike?) The fact that a minority of advertising is more annoying than anything does not detract from that experience.

Answer this: What makes these Tivo ads more annoying than TV commercials? Newspaper ads? Banner ads? Spam email?

[maki]

Answer this: What makes these Tivo ads more annoying than TV commercials? Newspaper ads? Banner ads? Spam email?

The person you quoted said they assumed the OP just wants a clean TiVo Central. I've always just accepted the ads as a part of TiVo Central and it looks a little empty without one there. Sometimes they're interesting things, too.

[leemoreau]

It would be nice though if they were actually relevant, like it's saying Get a TiVO HD DVR with No Monthly Bills. Except that I'm in Canada so it's not sold or supported here, so maybe if the ads were actually relevant.

[ZeoTiVo]

It would be nice though if they were actually relevant, like it's saying Get a TiVO HD DVR with No Monthly Bills. Except that I'm in Canada so it's not sold or supported here, so maybe if the ads were actually relevant.

I found the content of the ad annoying- I can get a TiVo with lifetime for 299$ because -umm I am looking at the ad on my TiVo DVR that qualifies me for the 299$ rate and is in fact NOT 25% off for me.