AT&T starts showing pause ads with motion and sound on DirecTV

If I absolutely had to choose I would go with the "immersive" advertising. I think he has a point. And he can sub to that app and "immerse" himself in those commercials as much as he wants. I'd rather stream. Yeah, you could probably make the assertion that a whole bunch of executives at ATT should be fired if they had anything to do with this.

Rich

 

This started months ago

 

AT&T: You get an ad! You get an ad! Everyone here today gets an ad!

 

Static ads. Full motion and sound is news to me.

 

Does it really matter? Tivo started ads before your recordings.. You want to ***** there is your issue. Why the F would i care what plays while something is paused.

 

I've seen the freeze frame ads but not the ads with motion and sound yet.

 

Have yet to see one.

Sometimes we'll pause what we are watching to take a phone call - as much to mute the sound as to not lose our place in the show. So now pausing will not mute the sound?

 

So now I'll pause and switch to HDMI3 where the Apple TV is connected with the silent moving images.

 

In glorious Dolby 4k!

Yes - you can do that in the Harmony app. I would consider using a separate unused button than the pause one in case you want to pause for only a second or two.

 

I don't have a Harmony remote but I can tell Alexa to PAUSE, switch to HDMI3....then switch back to HDMI1 and then PLAY when ready to resume. The problem with that is I have to hit a button on the Apple TV remote to bring it to life. It would be nice if it came on automatically when I switch to HDMI3. I'll have to try Google on my TV and see if I can make it do all of this via voice controls.

 

So I will no longer pause, just exit and when ready hit previous.

 

The problem is, often I pause due to a phone call or having a conversation with someone. Having immersive ads mean that I now have to pause and mute as well. Adding this to the many changes AT&T has made not for the best might be the last straw. Only reason I'm sticking with this rather than going back to cable is because my son wants his own DVR so he can control his own list of recordings. I could actually save money be moving fully to Altice (where I already have internet) I could get internet/the biggest TV package (with all the premiums) and phone for $50-$70 less total than I'm paying now using DirecTV for TV, Vonage for phone and Altice for internet.

 

A few months ago I started to see this ad's. The ones of videos were always pausing/stuttering on my C61K's making them useless. I use Twitter to express my displeasure with having DIRECTV take over my TV negating my pausing of programming so I could do things like answer a phone call and not have the TV playing in the background. Since then all I see are the usual DIRECTV ad's when the screensaver comes on.

 

Just turn your tv off when you pause, problem solved.

I usually only pause if I i have to leave the room, so even if I left the tv on, the ad wouldn't seen by anyone.

 

With my setup, the sound comes from my AVR, and I also use my AVR to switch inputs. Because I use a Harmony to control it all (only remote in the room), if I turn off the AVR I would lose my place in the show I paused. I may program the AVR to mute itself when I press 'pause' for the DVR if this gets annoying for me.

I have yet to see one of these ads with sound, btw.

 

Does anyone know how they will be delivered, internet or satellite ? I disconnected from the internet when they started the PPV ads last year. Still enjoying the Deathstar logo.

 

Probably internet so you may be safe

 

Just press the mute button.