MY COMMENTS NOT POSTING-- WHY???

Well, obviously your above post posted. It’s just a networkerror that happens occasionally.

Hi, Sandblaster. Uh-Uh and No No..  The comment that never posted was the second message I tried to post.  Yes, my first post hit without a problem--but the ne next  post failed.  Gonna' sit back now, and go to free streaming services for movies and shows.  Yeah, they'll  show an ad  or two-- but at least I won't be charged for suffering the ordeal of watching  'em!    Do I really expect that skin lotion formula to transform me  to a Jennifer Aniston lookalike  after just one week?  Also, Re:  Those 'Charmin'  brand Toilet Tissue ads-- WHY would ANY sane adult consumer take  butt-wiping  advice from red and blue cartoon bear families???  

What are you talking about?!? Clearly your posts are posting just fine. And what does posting in this forum have to do with DirecTV satellite equipment???

No TV provider has any control over what a channel sends them or the commercials

@schneeschnaw9 

The post by @sandblaster wasn't wrong. They weren't saying all your posts work, just that one did so was a temporary issue. Occasionally there is a network or other technical issue that results in "failed to post". And sometimes that error will pop up if you are posting at the time a thread gets closed or if the moderators migrate it into another thread. Refresh the thread you are posting in and try again.

As for your other separate issue, commercials are used because they work. The average consumer doesn't necessarily make decisions on a scientific, well-thought basis, but what sticks in their mind. When someone is in a hurry and tired going through the supermarket or such, they resort to emotion and familiarity. That is how commercials have worked for the last century. Proof is that those bears remind you of Charmin so has stuck in your mind. Advertisers goal is visibility and that the majority will remember either in a positive light or perhaps just recognizing it as opposed to some other brand they don't know about. And that includes advertisements in magazines, billboards, and other mediums. Unless you have just come back from living off the grid your entire life, the concept of commercials should make sense, even if you may not like them.

No TV provider has control over those commercials. The networks sell advertising space. TV providers just broadcast the channel as it is sent to them. And online streaming is increasing advertisements, including repetitiveness of them, with little to no options to opt out of commercials.

If you want to cancel DirecTV, then you will need to call to do so as your post changes nothing on your account. If you want no commercials, then you must give up TV completely.

Greetings. Litzdog & Juniper:  Liztsdog, for the  UMteenth time:  ONE, not all, of my comments failed to post--  so the question is, What Are YOU talking about?  BTW, this is not a Youtube forum,  so no, I wasn't "talking"-- Rather, I had written.  As for what my post has  "to do with DTV satellite equipment"-- in a word, Everything.

It's the equipment I pay for.  Moreover, don't see why ANY portion of my payments should supplement monies that advertisers already pay.  If you think I'm alone in this, reference the complaints posted by others.  

And Hey, Juniper:  Thanks, but NO thanks, for that "lesson" in  Advertising Strategy And Technique-- but I've studied public opinion and (Edited per community guidelines)-- so that brand & 

product  "recognition" you refer to works in direct opposition to what most adver-

tisers expect//hope for.   In my book, anything that insults one's intelligence is just plain repulsive.  I don't invest in the Repulsive.

If  those  'Real Housewives Of CharminVille '  consumers choose to take the shop-

per's  path of least resistance--  if only to indulge  their toddler's  affinity for hyper-active, hygienic cartoon bears -- that's their problem.  As for me (and many others), however--  When ads are so absurd and insulting that they offend the adult-level intellect,  that  "familiarity with brand and product name"  works in direct opposition to your theory. 

Please Be Advised:  No,  I'm not fresh out of "living off the grid."  To the contrary,

I'm more likely to wonder whether this Push-Button, Screen Junkie culture will ever emerge from the cave it's been sharing with  large, omnivorous, fuzzy cartoon mammals.  P.T. Barnum borrowed the phrase that put it best-- Indeed, "There's a sucker born every minute."  Guess I'm just one of  many not yet born into that precise measure of time.  P.S.:  Charmin's ads serve only to remind me that Charmin tissues feel as though they've already been used;  then repackaged as 'new.'    

Apologies to The Real Bears Of The Continental U.S. .

Ummm, OK?

@schneeschnaw9 

Networks charge TV providers to rebroadcast them and advertisers for the space of the commercials. If networks didn't have commercials, the bill to the TV provider would be much higher, which in turn means higher bills for customers.

Bottom line is by networks selling advertisement space, means lower bills for us because they are not getting their entire revenue from the service itself.

And in my opinion, you seem to be taking the existence of commercials too hard. I don't like them directly as sure I would love to watch uninterrupted programming. But I tolerate them as I don't want to foot the additional bill if they weren't there. I can mute or else as needed. There are way more important things in life to get up in arms about then silly commercials.

There are DVDs and VHS tapes out there to minimize advertising. Remember trailers for other movies or such are still advertisements, even though you have more control to get through them.

Advertisements can be as absurd as they were 100 years ago. And anything will be used if it somehow speaks to the culture of the day. Doesn't matter if Charmin Bears, Gummy Bears, Care Bears, Bernestine Bears, Coco Cola Bears, etc. And don't see why you are apologizing to Continental U.S. bears (the only ones that matter to you I guess) when they don't care about advertisements, or realistically even TV, in the first place.

tl'dr: It is just a commercial. Get over it.