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brassrat
Channel Surfer
6 years ago

commercials on acorn.tv

I have a paid subscription to acorn.tv on the roku channel.  "Midsomer Murders" is part of acorn.tv subscription, yet all episodes (except season 20) still have commercials.  I thought paid subscript...
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LAB85
Reel Rookie
5 years ago

9/27/2020  I started a subscription to Acorn TV in August.  Everything was running superbly until two nights ago.  Since then, for every episode of "Doc Martin" there has been four segments of four ads.  I am NOT interested in seeing 16 ads. for anything.  Isn't a paid subscription supposed to be ad free?   I noticed the same canned response from Roku to other service issues.  Anyone else having issues, and what is there to do about it?   FRUSTRATING!!

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andyross
Roku Guru
5 years ago

Did you contact Acorn TV? Not all subscriptions are ad-free. Many services have multiple tiers, some with ads, more expensive ones without (CBS All-Access and Peacock are two I know of.)

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    LAB85
    Reel Rookie
    5 years ago

    Thank you.  I'll try Acorn, but my understanding was that my service was ad free.