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Not exactly a tip, but a thought. I'm sure that, like me, you get annoyed by pop-ups, advertisements, and banners on some web pages. Have you every compared that to the average magazine? Looking through one popular computer magazine I counted 15 pages of advertising before the first article—then take into account the ads throughout the mag!

We don't really notice these, right? We just flip past them. As annoying as pop ups are, eventually you just click them away. I don't even notice the ads at the side of my Google searches anymore. Banner ads? I blow right past them.

Perhaps we should try to adopt this same attitude toward commercials during Races. I know, they're annoying, but they DO help pay the bills.
 
TiVo the race and start watching it about an hour in and you can blow right through them.
 
I'd still like the option of PPV w/out commercials. Especially if it could be priced like the NFL package.
Now I Tivo every race and for the Cup race we'll start watching about an hour and a half after the start. We can then FF thru the commercials and usually arrive at the checkered flag about the same time the drivers do.
 
Eagle1 said:
TiVo the race and start watching it about an hour in and you can blow right through them.
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Amen. Although I tried that Saturday night and it did not quite work out very well.
 
You do have to stay concious of rain delays. I think I ended up adding 3 hours to the recording time then just blew thru the interviews as well.
Incidents like the track coming up become more problematic. You never know how long it will take to fix the track.
 
kat2220 said:
Not exactly a tip, but a thought. I'm sure that, like me, you get annoyed by pop-ups, advertisements, and banners on some web pages. Have you every compared that to the average magazine? Looking through one popular computer magazine I counted 15 pages of advertising before the first article—then take into account the ads throughout the mag!

We don't really notice these, right? We just flip past them. As annoying as pop ups are, eventually you just click them away. I don't even notice the ads at the side of my Google searches anymore. Banner ads? I blow right past them.

Perhaps we should try to adopt this same attitude toward commercials during Races. I know, they're annoying, but they DO help pay the bills.
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Haven't we all been scolded for not giving credit where credit is due?

Worldstart.com
 
I read that same tip this morning....I get those tips in my email from worldstart everyday....
 
Perhaps we should try to adopt this same attitude toward commercials during Races. I know, they're annoying, but they DO help pay the bills.
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But, back to the original point. I have a pop up blocker. Banner ads at the top or side are easily ignored. How exactly do I ignore the 1 hour + commercials shown during a 3 hour Cup race. I do like how NBC breaks out of a commercial if something happens. Fox would never think to do that. In fact how many times did we hear DW saying "there's trouble in turn 4" just as they were going to commercial? It was thesuck.
 
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