# Advertising on DVDs We have to Shut the door on this foot!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-on-dvds-we-have-to-shut-the-door-on-this-foot/158776>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 3, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-on-dvds-we-have-to-shut-the-door-on-this-foot/158776 "2003-03-03T16:57:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-on-dvds-we-have-to-shut-the-door-on-this-foot/158776/21 "2003-03-05T11:33:55Z")

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Well, advertising is one way to make money. Would you be willing to pay a dollar more to have an ad-free DVD? I would, but I imagaine a lot of people would not.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-on-dvds-we-have-to-shut-the-door-on-this-foot/158776/22 "2003-03-05T15:52:30Z")

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"I too have seen a rise in the number of adverts that you may not skip. "

Can you FF through them? I just got a dvd recorder it has a time slip feature where you can skip a certain number of minutes.

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