TV PLUS will have different subscription packages on offer. With these, you are not forced to watch Replay ads and can simply skip the ad break with a single click. These subscriptions will be announced on the TV PLUS website.
Customers will have to watch dynamic advertising blocks and can no longer skip them as they could before, but these advertising blocks will certainly be shorter than before. You can skip the remaining linear original advertising with a single keystroke (SKIP function).
Customers will be presented with the following new forms of advertising in the Classic subscription: Start ads: short ad shown at the start of a program on time-shifted television FFW ads (Fast Forward): ads shown when fast-forward is used in a linear advertising block on time-shifted television. Maximum 130 seconds (max. 210 seconds per hour).…
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Customers will now see Replay ads on participating channels in our Classic subscription if they: Watch a Replay program Watch a program that has already started from the beginning again (start-over) Watch recorded programs in the first seven days after broadcast (Replay window) Press live pause during live TV, Replay or recordings
The industry agreement was a compromise reached in order to continue offering the popular Replay TV option at all. There was simply no alternative. If providers had not accepted the agreement, viewers would likely have been confronted with a much worse experience in the long term, since the Replay rights – as in the neighboring…
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The current availability of Replay in Switzerland is an absolute exception. In our neighboring countries, as well as in other markets, Replay rights must be negotiated separately with individual channels and for particular programs. In other words, Replay is subject to a fee in these markets and only available for the programs and channels that…
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You don’t have to do anything. All existing customers with the Classic subscription will be automatically switched to the new Classic subscription with dynamic TV advertising and skipping of linear advertising according to the new industry agreement. The price remains the same as before, with replay, recordings, pause and apps. Participating channels will now run…
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