New Technology May Force Ad Viewing

[yesdachi]

The only thing I can tell is that the technology is already there, and all that is needed is someone wealthy and stupid enough to put it on the market...

GAH, 10 days later someone would find a tech that would allow people a way around it. It’s a vicious cycle.

[SwordsMaster]

GAH, 10 days later someone would find a tech that would allow people a way around it. It’s a vicious cycle.

There is no way around it. You can either have it or not, like a camera-phone.

[Byzantine Mercenary]

what realy annoys me is that adverts are louder then the show, surely they realise that all people do when the adverts are louder is turn the sound off which you would think would be worse for them?

[Duke Malcolm]

Thank God for the BBC...

[Quid]

I already pay for viewing tv; no need for additional money spent.

Quid

[Louis VI the Fat]

Thank God for the BBC...

Yep! And unlike those magnanimous British tax-payers I get to enjoy it for free too!

[yesdachi]

There is no way around it.

I’m sure that has been said before. Not trying to argue with you but it just seems every time someone makes the better mouse trap the mice get smarter.

[master of the puppets]

I’m sure that has been said before. Not trying to argue with you but it just seems every time someone makes the better mouse trap the mice get smarter.

yeah...hmmm speaking of that, why can 2 or 3 generations of mice grow immune to eating a small bit of poison when humans have been injesting the poison alchohol for thousand of years and we still react the same to it, are the mice really just better or did our ancestors just get a lot more hammered than we do...mabey this should be in the drunken thread.

[Blodrast]

The sad thing is that probably enough people will just shrug and hand over the dough, agreeing to pay extra so that they're allowed to switch the channel whenever they want to...
apathy >>> anything.

If enough people go with that, it'll remain in place. If enough people refuse to put up with that crap, or, alternatively, to pay extra in order to be able to do the same thing they can do now (i.e., switch the damn channel during ads), this miserable initiative to milk people for even more money for the same amount of service will eventually fail.

[BigTex]

Originally posted by solypist
"We developed a system where the viewer can choose, at the beginning of a movie, to either watch the movie with ads, or pay us more and watch the movie without adds." the company stated. "It is up to the viewer to take this decision, and up to the broadcaster to offer the various wallet squeezing services."

Bastards ! I swear the rich idiot who trys this is going to be lynched. Why in the heck do companies invest in these add technologies, don't they know it will only piss off the people they are trying to peddle their wares to? I realize that within a week they'll be a way around it (god bless them hackers out there, they truly help the world stay free.) but still this pisses me off. The CEO of Phillips needs to be Tared and Feathered.

[Avicenna]

yeah...hmmm speaking of that, why can 2 or 3 generations of mice grow immune to eating a small bit of poison when humans have been injesting the poison alchohol for thousand of years and we still react the same to it, are the mice really just better or did our ancestors just get a lot more hammered than we do...mabey this should be in the drunken thread.

It's only a select group of mice who have become immune. Us humans haven't had very many exposed to poisons until some develop some kind of immunity and spread it out to others through having a whole litter of kids who in turn each have their own litters, all anti-poison.