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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Nemesis on April 18, 2006, 08:22:23 pm
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Link to full article (http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn9011-invention-the-tvadvert-enforcer.html)
The advert enforcer
If a new idea from Philips catches on, the company may not be very popular with TV viewers. The company's labs in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, has been cooking up a way to stop people changing channels to avoid adverts or fast forwarding through ads they have recorded along with their target programme.
Not going to be popular with viewers.
Philips' patent acknowledges that this may be "greatly resented by viewers" who could initially think their equipment has gone wrong. So it suggests the new system could throw up a warning on screen when it is enforcing advert viewing. The patent also suggests that the system could offer viewers the chance to pay a fee interactively to go back to skipping adverts.
This shows that they know it but obviously don't care. So much for "the customer is always right".
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::begins making the bombs he'll start mailing to philips::
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Why not save the hastle and just channel the commercials directly into our brains? :P
Seriously, this is a BIG mistake for them. I hope their competitors don't follow in their path and stomp them in fair competition.
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they would but the technology to do so doesnt exist yet
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they would but the technology to do so doesnt exist yet
You haven't seen the leaked top-secret footage from Punisher's secret lair, then. I've got my aluminum foil hat firmly in place.
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Actually, with the new omni-lobe 3000 tin-foil hats will no longer protect you.
We at punisher industries recommend that you encase your head in at least 2 feet of concrete.
Make sure to install breathing holes.
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You haven't seen the leaked top-secret footage from Punisher's secret lair, then. I've got my aluminum foil hat firmly in place.
Sounds like you are a prime candidate for Punishers version of the Vogon "commercial appreciation chair". My condolences to your next of kin.
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..ummm the trial program includes your next of kin.
We figure that test subjects would prefer to have company when they arrive at the pearly gates. Or, I'm just homocidal and want to kill as many people as possible.
Which do you think is more accurate? =)
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..ummm the trial program includes your next of kin.
Good thing I had that adjusted to read George Bush as next of kin.
We figure that test subjects would prefer to have company when they arrive at the pearly gates. Or, I'm just homocidal and want to kill as many people as possible.
Which do you think is more accurate? =)
Both - absolutely definitely BOTH.
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I wonder if turning the TV off then on will allow you to change the channel??!? Just one more reason for me not to watch TV.