Who still uses these Telenet settopboxes anyway. Almost all the interesting TV channels are also available in standard definition over unencrypted TV, and most smart TVs can record stuff natively. And if I want HD, it’s probably for a movie from Netflix, not for watching Ingeborg in HD.
It’s not 2005, settopboxes are no longer relevant. I always get confused when I visit older people and they have two different remote controls for the same TV. The only reason some people still have settopboxes is because Telenet trained their sales people to flat-out lie to customers that these things are essential (or even “the future”, LOL). That’s how they convinced my grandma to buy one recently. So once Telenet’s “huzarenstuk van jewelste” to make these settopboxes even less functional is finished, nobody will still have one in their house and it will all be for nothing.
If I hadn’t stopped using digital tv almost a decade ago, this would’ve surely been the thing that caused me to YEET that box out the window. M’fkrs, the entire point of digital tv used to be that you could fast forward past all the damn commercials!
Joho joho!
Cash cow tactics on a declining product/service. Boosting revenue a few years from it whilst investing in alternatives as Streamz. Would do the same thing, except earlier perhaps.
I don’t mind commercials, it gives me time to visit the toilet when watching live. But sometimes it just becomes ridiculous, showing the same commercial more than once in a block.
Looks like I’m going back to Usenet, yaaaaarrrrr
5 minuten serie
30 minuten reclame
5 minute serie
30 minuten reclame
5 minute serie dan is de serie gedaan
Dan nog is 30 minuten reclame voor de volgende serie begint
I wouldn’t be surprised if they target those users as well. The bunch that is most likely to stay regardless. Your huis tuin keuken famile/thuis watcher.
Anyone else would cancel their subscription
this is not going to go the way they are hoping it will… What are we really paying for? The decoder? This just makes me think to get my own hardware.
I was a cord cutter ever since i bought a house with my wife.
I watch everything on my TV with a mini pc.
My kids watch netflix, youtube and ketnet.
Introducing this will lead to more people cutting the cable.
Khebt gezien, 1 minuut ONDOORSPOELBARE reclame voor elke opname enz
Got rid of my tv subscription as soon as this was announced. Fuck this shit.
I never had digital TV. Past summer I was pet sitting at my sister and turned on the Telenet decoder: reality TV, reality TV, reality TV,…
People actually pay for and watch that shit?!
Can confirm 🙁
People still watch tv? Lol
I doubt this will make a difference on the usage and subscriber numbers. A lot people have tv subscription in their pack no matter what.(company funded, laziness, just in case, they watch TV, “cheaper” etc) The people that are still watching regular aren’t going to stop doing it because of some ads. In Belgium there aren’t a lot of real cord cutters anyway.
Telenet is continuing digging their own grave
Before you know they present an extra option for several €’s a month for no commercials.
hopelijk gevolgd door
“Eerste telenet klanten vertrekken collectief bij telenet”
YEET!
I returned my digicorder yesterday.
Piracy is always a service problem – Gabe Newell
Threw digital tv (there’s not really anything worth watching that’s not inundated with commercials) and Proximus (for obvious reasons) out three years ago. Now I only have internet from edpnet and I couldn’t be happier.
Yes, I’m going to watch more TV now. /s
Is this for all programs, or only of the Flemish broadcasters participating? Can I for example still skipp adds on f.e. Eurosport or foreign broadcasters (BBC, France, NPO…)?
force feeding ads everywhere, it’s getting more ridiculous than the US. And they have ads between the last scene of a series episode and the credits
2 Years adfree, and loving it. I also have a rule not to buy anything they advertise for actively.
Kruidvat is momentarily pushing alot, allright, no kruidvat. Try to buy as much as i can research myself.
Addressable TV advertising is een reclamevorm die het mogelijk maakt om televisiereclame te personaliseren op maat van de kijker. Nergens ter wereld is gepersonaliseerde tv-reclame meer ingeburgerd dan in België. Deze succesvolle innovatie heeft het tv-reclamelandschap dan ook grondig hertekend. Waar klassieke tv-reclame zich richt op het brede publiek, combineert addressable TV advertising de kracht van het massamedium televisie met de specifieke personalisatiemogelijkheden van digitale media.
Via de settopbox kunnen adverteerders zich richten op specifieke huishoudens. Het is een gemakkelijke en transparante manier om reclameboodschappen naar specifieke segmenten te communiceren. Wat meteen ook positief is voor de consument, aangezien deze steeds meer relevante advertenties te zien krijgt.
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PLEASE DRINK A VERIFICATION CAN
Really wonder where ‘linear TV’ will be in 10-15 years. Most shows besides I guess Quiz shows could just as easily move to Streamz.
https://i.redd.it/dg47ya9m7a401.jpg
Who still uses these Telenet settopboxes anyway. Almost all the interesting TV channels are also available in standard definition over unencrypted TV, and most smart TVs can record stuff natively. And if I want HD, it’s probably for a movie from Netflix, not for watching Ingeborg in HD.
It’s not 2005, settopboxes are no longer relevant. I always get confused when I visit older people and they have two different remote controls for the same TV. The only reason some people still have settopboxes is because Telenet trained their sales people to flat-out lie to customers that these things are essential (or even “the future”, LOL). That’s how they convinced my grandma to buy one recently. So once Telenet’s “huzarenstuk van jewelste” to make these settopboxes even less functional is finished, nobody will still have one in their house and it will all be for nothing.
If I hadn’t stopped using digital tv almost a decade ago, this would’ve surely been the thing that caused me to YEET that box out the window. M’fkrs, the entire point of digital tv used to be that you could fast forward past all the damn commercials!
Joho joho!
Cash cow tactics on a declining product/service. Boosting revenue a few years from it whilst investing in alternatives as Streamz. Would do the same thing, except earlier perhaps.
I don’t mind commercials, it gives me time to visit the toilet when watching live. But sometimes it just becomes ridiculous, showing the same commercial more than once in a block.
Looks like I’m going back to Usenet, yaaaaarrrrr
5 minuten serie
30 minuten reclame
5 minute serie
30 minuten reclame
5 minute serie dan is de serie gedaan
Dan nog is 30 minuten reclame voor de volgende serie begint
I wouldn’t be surprised if they target those users as well. The bunch that is most likely to stay regardless. Your huis tuin keuken famile/thuis watcher.
Anyone else would cancel their subscription
this is not going to go the way they are hoping it will… What are we really paying for? The decoder? This just makes me think to get my own hardware.
I was a cord cutter ever since i bought a house with my wife.
I watch everything on my TV with a mini pc.
My kids watch netflix, youtube and ketnet.
Introducing this will lead to more people cutting the cable.
Khebt gezien, 1 minuut ONDOORSPOELBARE reclame voor elke opname enz
Got rid of my tv subscription as soon as this was announced. Fuck this shit.
I never had digital TV. Past summer I was pet sitting at my sister and turned on the Telenet decoder: reality TV, reality TV, reality TV,…
People actually pay for and watch that shit?!
Can confirm 🙁
People still watch tv? Lol
I doubt this will make a difference on the usage and subscriber numbers. A lot people have tv subscription in their pack no matter what.(company funded, laziness, just in case, they watch TV, “cheaper” etc) The people that are still watching regular aren’t going to stop doing it because of some ads. In Belgium there aren’t a lot of real cord cutters anyway.
Telenet is continuing digging their own grave
Before you know they present an extra option for several €’s a month for no commercials.
hopelijk gevolgd door
“Eerste telenet klanten vertrekken collectief bij telenet”
YEET!
I returned my digicorder yesterday.
Piracy is always a service problem – Gabe Newell
Threw digital tv (there’s not really anything worth watching that’s not inundated with commercials) and Proximus (for obvious reasons) out three years ago. Now I only have internet from edpnet and I couldn’t be happier.
Yes, I’m going to watch more TV now. /s
Is this for all programs, or only of the Flemish broadcasters participating? Can I for example still skipp adds on f.e. Eurosport or foreign broadcasters (BBC, France, NPO…)?
force feeding ads everywhere, it’s getting more ridiculous than the US. And they have ads between the last scene of a series episode and the credits
2 Years adfree, and loving it. I also have a rule not to buy anything they advertise for actively.
Kruidvat is momentarily pushing alot, allright, no kruidvat. Try to buy as much as i can research myself.
We realy don’t need al that stuff.
Telenet is just an advertisingagency, and you are paying them:[https://www.advertising.dpgmedia.be/nl/nieuws/addressable-tv-advertising-evolueert-van-een-straffe-innovatie-naar-een-matuur-kwalitatief](https://www.advertising.dpgmedia.be/nl/nieuws/addressable-tv-advertising-evolueert-van-een-straffe-innovatie-naar-een-matuur-kwalitatief)
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Addressable TV advertising is een reclamevorm die het mogelijk maakt om televisiereclame te personaliseren op maat van de kijker. Nergens ter wereld is gepersonaliseerde tv-reclame meer ingeburgerd dan in België. Deze succesvolle innovatie heeft het tv-reclamelandschap dan ook grondig hertekend. Waar klassieke tv-reclame zich richt op het brede publiek, combineert addressable TV advertising de kracht van het massamedium televisie met de specifieke personalisatiemogelijkheden van digitale media.
Via de settopbox kunnen adverteerders zich richten op specifieke huishoudens. Het is een gemakkelijke en transparante manier om reclameboodschappen naar specifieke segmenten te communiceren. Wat meteen ook positief is voor de consument, aangezien deze steeds meer relevante advertenties te zien krijgt.