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Rukee

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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.


http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn9011&feedId=online-news_rss20

Time to turn the T.V. off completely I think. :rolleyes:
 
madmoo

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boy cot philips thats what we'll do boy cot 'um.
then only buy dell pc's from argos with the lamanatid book of dreams to catch the tears of joy.
 
Cat Fuzz

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Stilgar said:
Were you joking, or were you actually serious about this working in a socialist country? If you were serious, care to explain your reasoning?
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I was sort-of, kinda like, half kidding. But it just seems to me that the smaller, more socialist leaning countries would adopt a thing like this. I can see France implementing this. They already have a bunch of wacko labor laws among others.
 
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Well, I have to say that it was the next logical step in the development phase of the TiVo. Philips' logic is something like this: "Those advertisers paid good money to put those commercials on the air, they deserve to be watched." That's a bunch of hooey. Those customers also paid good money to SKIP those commercials. The logic can go both ways.

It's not like it really matters, anyway. As soon as Philips releases their product, someone will surely find a way around their annoying little gimmick.
 
Stilgar

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New Zealand still has strong socialist leanings but I don't see it being accepted here. TV is bad enough already without this sort of arrogant nonsense. :|
 
Nachimir

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Socialism embracing compulsory viewing of corporate advertising?

You need to read up on what socialism is, and where it was practiced :/
 
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Cat Fuzz said:
That might work in some socialist countries but not here. Someone would sue.
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Forcing commercials isn't really socialist. Socialist would be funding every single tv-station with taxmoney, hus making commercials useless.
This is more hardcore kapitalist^^
 
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