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| A TV that forces you to watch ads? It's possible | |
| 2006-04-21 | |
| Philips technology could let broadcasters freeze channel during commercial. So you can't channel surf. Your tv or tivo will just refuse.
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| Posted by:3dc |
| #9 just in time - I'm shopping (May 1st to counter the mexican illegal's consumer boycott) to buy a big F'ing TV with DLP and HD...Now I can scratch Philips off the too-long candidate list - thanks assholes! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-04-21 23:09 |
| #8 The Grandson of Twonky ... |
| Posted by: Adriane 2006-04-21 22:30 |
| #7 Phillips CEO: "We've got too damn many customers and too damn much money! There's got to be a solution!" Phillips engineer: "Sir, I just might have an idea..." |
| Posted by: BH 2006-04-21 10:31 |
| #6 "There are only two things I cannot tollerate. People with no respect for other peoples cultures, and the Dutch." |
| Posted by: Phorong Phinemp3987 2006-04-21 10:10 |
| #5 Wow! What a selling point! I want two of them, just in case one breaks... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-04-21 09:48 |
| #4 Jackal, that is when our wonderful hacker friends will come up with a $10/10 second work around the $1.3billion dollar/3 year project. Oh, and after I hack the hell out of it congress, I'm voting your ass out. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-04-21 09:42 |
| #3 They just have to buy enough Congressmen, who then introduce a new, incompatible, super-HDTV and mandate its use in 10 years. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2006-04-21 00:35 |
| #2 Where can I go to spend my money this wonderful device? |
| Posted by: ed 2006-04-21 00:35 |
| #1 I'm pretty agnostic about this stuff. There will probably always be three business models out there: 1. Advertisers pay for mediocre content to be distributed for "free." (ABCCBSNBC) 2. You pay for higher quality content. (HBO) 3. The state taxes the hell out of you and uses your money to provide content that they think will better you or that the elites want to see on your dime. (BBC) Personally, I'll take #1 or #2 any day. Of course, strictly speaking, #3 isn't a really business model. And now that you can download or stream just about anything on US TV, I predict that in five years, only two 90-year-old, crazy cat women in Edinburgh will still be watching the beeb. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2006-04-21 00:32 |