>I noticed visiting a hotel recently (like fuck I pay for cable!) that their cable service had sped up the intro of Law and Order SVU, presumably to make room for more advertisements.
That's pretty smart of them! It makes sense to try to increase the time for ads, and decrease the time for the TV show; maybe next they can just cut the credits, or cut out parts of each act in the show. There's no reason not to. After all, the only people still paying for cable TV subscriptions are elderly people who absolutely refuse to give up their reruns of decades-old shows and also refuse to learn how to use Hulu, so they'll happily pay $150/month so they can watch 70s shows with even worse video quality than TVs in the 70s had.
That's pretty smart of them! It makes sense to try to increase the time for ads, and decrease the time for the TV show; maybe next they can just cut the credits, or cut out parts of each act in the show. There's no reason not to. After all, the only people still paying for cable TV subscriptions are elderly people who absolutely refuse to give up their reruns of decades-old shows and also refuse to learn how to use Hulu, so they'll happily pay $150/month so they can watch 70s shows with even worse video quality than TVs in the 70s had.