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2006-04-21 Science & Technology

A TV that forces you to watch ads? It's possible

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Posted by 3dc 2006-04-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2006-04-21 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Where can I go to spend my money this wonderful device?

Posted by ed 2006-04-21 00:35|| 2006-04-21 00:35|| Front Page Top

#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">Jackal 2006-04-21 00:35|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2006-04-21 00:35|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-04-21 09:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Wow! What a selling point! I want two of them, just in case one breaks...

Posted by tu3031 2006-04-21 09:48|| 2006-04-21 09:48|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-04-21 10:10|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-04-21 10:31|| Front Page Top

#8 The Grandson of Twonky ...

Posted by Adriane 2006-04-21 22:30|| 2006-04-21 22:30|| Front Page Top

#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">Frank G 2006-04-21 23:09|| 2006-04-21 23:09|| Front Page Top

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