BAHAH these pancakers wanna alienate viewers more!!

[Drorain]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060420/ap_on_hi_te/anti_ad_skipper

read and be angry...

I think its bad enough commercials are on Cable tv...hahah good thing I don't watch much of anything, its the parents that use cable

[reuber1]

You've got to be f'cking kidding.

[reuber1]

On Wednesday, company officials issued a statement that noted the technology also enables the opposite: allowing viewers to watch television without advertising. The intention was never to force viewers to watch ads against their will, the company said of the technology.

"We developed a system where the viewer can choose, at the beginning of a movie, to either watch the movie without ads, or watch the movie with ads," the company stated. "It is up to the viewer to take this decision, and up to the broadcaster to offer the various services."That better be the case, but honestly, how many people do you think are going to want to watch them, if they have the ability to choose? And if you choose not to, what happens? A blank screen? Do you sit in limbo? Do you get to play pong for free using your up and down channel buttons to control the paddle?

What about those damn commercials DURING the shows/movies? You know, you're done with the commercial break, watching a movie on cable (parents got DISH at home, THANK GOD), and just when you think you're free from the advertising blitz, something pops up in the corner of the screen, and you're like "WTF is that!?" more often than not obscuring from view something important to what you are watching. I saw an ad on MTV2 the other day like this during Wondershowzen that obscured a section of the middle of the screen. Unbelievable.

[jimking]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060420/ap_on_hi_te/anti_ad_skipper

read and be angry...

I think its bad enough commercials are on Cable tv...hahah good thing I don't watch much of anything, its the parents that use cable
Not surprised. I told my wife in the early 80s when cable was being laid like gang busters and cable companies were advertising no commersials I said " you watch. Soon not only are we going to pay for TV per month, we're going to pay to watch commersials also!" People have made billions from this. If they impose channel locking I would cancel in a heartbeat.

[Jeizzavelle]

My top reason for giving up cable/sattelite tv....paying to watch commercials.

[mac.FINN]

Pretty soon, they'll be disabling the mute button drung commercials. Oh and when a commercial comes on - a strap flies out of your seat and holds you down making sure you can't leave. Then eventually the commecials will all be in double speak.

Big Brother is watching!

[orkaknos12]

hehe.. good luck with that, Philips..

-Jon

[Drorain]

this will prove as ineffective as the phillips CD-i lol

[PrintDriver]

Ah ha ha.
Glad I don't own a TV.
My sister has one in the den I think.
I look at it once in a while. If something catches my attention as I wander through the room.

It's gotten so ad breaks are so long I forget what I was watching, loose interest and leave.

And what's with the recap thing. You watch any 'informative' show not on PBS and they recap whatever was going on before the commercial. I find that maddeningly insulting. Keep it linear folks.

[Jeizzavelle]

I don't mind commercials so much because I read a book and watch tv. Mostly talk shows and reality crap so I'm not missing much if I get sucked into my book. I just don't see the point in paying more money to watch MORE commercials and it's the same crap as local networks. *sigh* I'll keep going to the library. It's still free.

[Ovaltine]

Along with the annoyance of pop-up ads during shows, I find it extremely annoying when commercial breaks break up action sequences, or hoghly dramatic sequinces. The directors diliberatly put things in specific sequince, to chop it up the way commercials do is to mangle perfectly good art.

[ecsyle]

Funny how corporations think.

Make the commercials a paid feature. Pay to disable them. Who then, will the ads be targeting? The people who would pay to turn them off, are the same people with the disposable income for the crap that they are selling. And I do believe that there were some studies done about commercials and how we remember them. Apparently the only time we really watch them is when we are fast forwarding through them. Otherwise we automatically ignore them. Forcing us then to watch them wouldn't work as effectively.

What they really need to do is remove the whole concept of entertainment and replace "shows" with paid actors selling crap. HBO is doing that already.

Goddamn I hate advertising, tv, etc.

Im going to take a break and smoke some cigarettes while shaking my fist at the world.

[reuber1]

Enjoy shaking your first at the world.

[jimking]

I was watching that show about the Alaskan king crab fishermen and thought of a way advertisers could sell their products. Just post their company name or logo on the 800lb crab baskets that are constantly being thrown overboard or pulled up from the bottom of the ocean.

[Drorain]

Enjoy shaking your first at the world.

i find it more satisfying shaking your tally-who at the world...

and anyone that drives by

[Jeizzavelle]

I flashed a chick once and she wrecked her car...into a friend of mine's car.

[reuber1]

I wish a chick would do that to me when I'm driving. I wouldn't wreck a car though...just my pants.

[Jeizzavelle]

LMAO. Reuber, I knew I could count on you for a laugh.

[Drorain]

lmao that was a nice setup, well played guys :D

[Jeizzavelle]

Yeah, I figured I could count on Reuber to say something catty. lmao.

[ecsyle]

Enjoy shaking your first at the world.:mad:

[reuber1]

Aw, you edited the post. That's no fun. :(