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The "Next Big Thing" for TV?
New technology to force you to watch ads by disabling the controls.
The apparatus (270) and method comprises an advertisement controller (270) in a video playback device (150) that (1) prevents a viewer of a direct (non-recorded) broadcast from switching channels when an advertisement is displayed, and (2) prevents a viewer of a recorded program from fast forwarding the recorded program in order to skip past advertisements that were recorded with the program. http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn9011-invention-the-tvadvert-enforcer.html I suggest we pay off the national debt by finding the asshats that came up with this and charge $5 a whack to beat them senseless.
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04-19-2006, 07:22 AM
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I second that idea. Thank God for Tivo...
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04-19-2006, 07:39 AM
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and (2) prevents a viewer of a recorded program from fast forwarding the recorded program in order to skip past advertisements that were recorded with the program.
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04-19-2006, 08:06 AM
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You have to buy the technology to be beholden to it. I'm envisioning a vast underground film industry springing up, disseminating their content via the nets using "unauthorized" technologies like BitTorrent etc.
Kinda like the indy music scene.
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04-19-2006, 08:10 AM
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Never buying a Philips device again (not that I ever planned to)
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Why don't they make the ads worth watching instead....
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04-19-2006, 11:35 AM
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Unfortunately--for the most part--the ads I see lately are better than the shows...
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I did think again and believe its time for a margarita but this will work! 
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04-19-2006, 12:24 PM
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I love the new DVD's that make you watch the previews for other movies. That little crossout circle pops up in the corner whenever I hit skip. Makes me want to smash the TV.
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04-19-2006, 01:29 PM
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That crossout circle is the viewer's cue to go take a leak, wash hands, make a sandwich, get a beer, then go back to the TV room and enjoy the movie.
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sometimes the menu button does not work either
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04-19-2006, 05:41 PM
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Semper drive!
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The key to preventing this would be to boycott the companies whose advertisements are forcibly shown. Unfortunately, though, we can't even get people to ignore their spam...
 Randy
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