Don't make me bust out a stopwatch on you

[tangerinpenguin]

I've been watching Caprica, BSG's spinoff/prequel on Syfy, and I'm still trying to make up my mind what I think of it. That's not really the subject of this post, but it's the context for a comment I made to a friend that it seemed to have a lot higher ad-to-show ratio than I remember from BSG - to the point where I sometimes felt we spent more

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[cirocco]

I find the commercial breaks on Hulu to be both brief (no more than 60 seconds apiece) and unintrusive. I'll have a Metafilter thread or some other light reading open in another tab, and when the ads come on I'll turn the volume down to a whisper, read for a minute, and tab back when the show comes back on. They have Caprica!

http://www.hulu.com/caprica

I cracked up at your admonition that you didn't want to hear complaints about your numbers not adding up. What's geekier than timing the commercial breaks in a Galactica spin-off? Double-checking the math of someone who's been timing the commercial breaks in a Galactica spin-off, that's what.

[greenpear]

I think that "Limited Commercial Interruption" is jus a ploy to make us "THINK" we're getting a good deal.

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