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Which video service has the fewest or shortest ad breaks? (reddit.invak.id)
submitted 8 months ago by Zepfanman@beehaw.org to c/entertainment@beehaw.org
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Thought this might be a helpful discussion for those who want to cut down on advertising breaks when they have multiple options to watch a show or movie. Below are my results for Tubi, followed by a summary of this subject's URL, which someone tested in 2021.

My results today (3/19/24) for The Mental State (2022) https://tubitv.com/movies/100016371/the-mental-state Film length: 104 minutes. By my stopwatch, ads totaled 11m44s (approx 90s/ea), about 12 minutes between each ad break. So I spent about 10% of the time watching ads. Compare to about 6% on the 2021 survey below.

Anyone else want to watch The Mental State or something else on one of the services below and report their results?

Copying this from someone in 2021 who did a survey on a 44-minute tv episode:

Tubi - 2:51
Peacock - 4:12
IMDB - 5:41
Plex - 6:40
VUDU - 7:08
Crackle - 8:07
Roku - 8:28 (test performed by KyloRenegade16)
Pluto - 12:27
The CW - 12:34
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[–] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Jellyfin - 0:00

[–] blindsight@beehaw.org 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I got the same results from Stremio + Torrentio+ a Debrid service.

[–] Nyfure@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I like the streaming approach, but i dislike that its linked to stremio.
I want to have the option to use my server (at least for syncing) with my own auth and transcode when needed on the server.
Basically jellyfin with streaming sources and search built-in.

And most debrid services dont seed (well) and have poor retention, so thats also not that great.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's interesting, I would have assumed Tubi was worst, I guess they're still in that sweet investor backed period where they aren't concerned about profits?

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 3 points 8 months ago

Tubi hasn't been too bad for me, might depend on what you're watching though.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago

when i last used tubi (probably 5-6 months ago), i got zero ads. via a tv app and pihole.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

Funny because I want to know the opposite. I find the breaks are to short with streaming to effectively get things done. Bonus if it has a really obvious commercials are over lead in.

[–] Zepfanman@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago

Did another test today, this one for AsianCrush - 49-minute program with 9 minutes of ads, so about 18%