Philips Technology to Force Ad Viewing [Archive]

Pinnacle

04-19-2006, 11:39 AM

Philips suggests adding flags to commercial breaks to stop a viewer from changing channels until the adverts are over

http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=3827

Your ass belong to, Philips :D

ex2cib

04-19-2006, 11:42 AM

"pay a fee to skip commercials"

why are companies so stupid.

this has got to be one of the dumbest ideas ever

HelloIDistance

04-19-2006, 11:50 AM

This is the stupidest idea ever. It seems like every year companies try to take more and more control over technology. If this goes through, next the furniture companies might want to look into making it so we can't leave our chairs during the commerical too.

jumanji969

04-19-2006, 11:58 AM

Something would be hacked to get around something so stupid in a matter of days.

trakslacker

04-19-2006, 12:02 PM

if this does in fact come into play, I foresee a drastic rise in the # of ppl stealing cable, not b/c they cant afford it, but b/c the black boxes would likely remove this "feature".

EDIT: Oh yeah, also wanted to say that 1) this is the dumbest idea EVAR and 2) tech like this would get hacked in a matter of days upon release.

freecableguy

04-19-2006, 12:06 PM

this makes me want to punch my own face in.

Pinnacle

04-19-2006, 12:12 PM

this makes me want to punch my own face in.

Do it and dont forget to film it :D

Cobalt

04-19-2006, 12:14 PM

Sony and now Philips. Damn, someone needs to go talk to these guys, and by talk I mean the kind that involves Chuck Norris...

RaZz!

04-19-2006, 12:50 PM

lol, this isn't funny anymore - just stupid.

OmegaMerc

04-19-2006, 12:50 PM

*flash to a year in the future*

Philips moves away from the TV buisness as sales slump to an all time low since their new technology was introduced into TV's.

Vapor

04-19-2006, 12:52 PM

All your eye are belong to us.

Love,
Phillips :buddies:

Wasn't a big feature on a TV a few years ago the fact that you could have a setting that would help you avoid commercials?

Repoman

04-19-2006, 01:50 PM

Let me sum this up plagiarizing everybody else's words- this is the stupidest idea ever.

And it will never happen, or Philips will, quite possibly, explode

Delirious

04-19-2006, 02:04 PM

"Philips' patent acknowledges that this may be "greatly resented by viewers"

wow.........just wow.........the stupidity leaves me speachless. Resented is an understatement.

"The patent also suggests that the system could offer viewers the chance to pay a fee interactively to go back to skipping adverts."

Um....yah......................................... .no!

Kobalt

04-19-2006, 02:15 PM

I'm really tempted to call them and very seriously ask them if they are f***ing retarded.

"Hi this is Sam. How can I help you?"
"Hi Sam, I was wondering if Philips is f**king retarded?"
" *Silence* "

Repoman

04-19-2006, 02:47 PM

trakslacker

04-19-2006, 03:17 PM

Ever seen a $30 billion a year company go bankrupt in a week? Wait for this to come out. ;)

*goes to short sell PHG*

Kunaak

04-19-2006, 03:58 PM

heres the point where I am starting to get pro pirating/hacker.

the more crap they break and hack and crack the easier my life is.
they will put this crap on TV, some hacker or something will break it, then my life will be good again.

this is the kinda crap that just makes me advocate the anti-corperate crap on everything.

nn_step

04-19-2006, 05:09 PM

Looks like Philips isn't going to be the company I'm going to buy my new TV from...

Jeff

04-19-2006, 05:11 PM

this makes me want to punch my own face in.

:clap: Funniest one liner *ever*. :lol:

MaxxxRacer

04-19-2006, 05:15 PM

mursaat

04-19-2006, 11:22 PM

2 things.

1. This makes my brain hurt so much that not even heavy amounts of narcotics could stop the pain.
2. Whomever at Phillips who came up with this idea needs to be banished to antartica wearing nothing but rotten fish.And be thrown to polar bears.

I'm so p***ed I can't even think what to say. What's next? Clips on your eyes ala Clockwork Orange so you can't move the sight from the screen?

ex2cib

04-19-2006, 11:46 PM

here's another problem

what happens when you are channel surfing, and you stumble upon a commercial, will it make you stop right then and there and force you to watch?

Ubermann

04-20-2006, 12:01 AM

LOL now that would be annoying...
I can see that the whole worlds trash year 2010 consist 95% of Philips Tv systems.

"Hi i want to return this..its not working as it should"

http://www.singsingsing.com/has1/tv-3.jpg

nn_step

04-20-2006, 01:08 AM

If Philips actually starts using this.. I bet in less than 3 Months Philips is kicked out of the TV business

Delirious

04-20-2006, 05:39 AM

If Philips actually starts using this.. I bet in less than 3 Months Philips is kicked out of the TV business

They already arent far from that, most of thier tv's suck anyway. I would know i own one :P

ahmad

04-20-2006, 05:57 AM

ex2cib

04-20-2006, 07:31 AM

You all hate it because none of you have ever paid for advertisements. I bet any business man here who has put ads on TV would like the idea.

If I paid 20k for an ad you bet your ass I want people to watch it. Besides philips will get a lot of endorsement for this and eventually all TVs will adopt it.

well, simple, make the ads funny, it can't be done with all of them, but i actually watch the funny ones

nn_step

04-20-2006, 07:33 AM

You all hate it because none of you have ever paid for advertisements. I bet any business man here who has put ads on TV would like the idea.

If I paid 20k for an ad you bet your ass I want people to watch it. Besides philips will get a lot of endorsement for this and eventually all TVs will adopt it.
Here is an idea put ads in a place where people will see them or make the ads something that people might want to watch..:stick:
Like the Front page of XS...

trakslacker

04-20-2006, 07:35 AM

Besides philips will get a lot of endorsement for this and eventually all TVs will adopt it.

And a hack for it will arrive within a week, and life will continue on as normal.

Jeff

04-20-2006, 10:15 AM

Or like in Windows XP's case... a hack will arrive a month or two before it's even released. ;)

ahmad

04-20-2006, 11:13 AM

Or like in Windows XP's case... a hack will arrive a month or two before it's even released. ;)

Yeah. Right :p:

Exactly how does one hack a TV :stick:

"Attach this DB25 cable here, download this program and flash the firmware. Then attach these 25 resistors". Right. I can just see single mothers jumping at the idea of this simple hack.

Repoman

04-20-2006, 11:24 AM

You all hate it because none of you have ever paid for advertisements. I bet any business man here who has put ads on TV would like the idea.

If I paid 20k for an ad you bet your ass I want people to watch it. Besides philips will get a lot of endorsement for this and eventually all TVs will adopt it.

Maybe they shouldn't advertise that way then? Or pay that much money for it.. People have the freedom to watch what they want, I never watch commercials because I don't want to. I don't care if some businessman would like me to watch it.. and neither does anyone here

trakslacker

04-20-2006, 11:47 AM

If this does become a reality, here's my take on how this will be gotten around(outside of physically modding the TV). Since this chip/device would be in the TV, someone will create a "swithcing" box that resides between the coax outlet and the TV itself. It would act as the actual receiver and somehow create multiple signals. Whenever a commercial came on on one channel and the DRM-like device within the TV disallowed channel changing, you would just flip over to a new signal through the switcher box, and continue on your merry way.

EDIT: For guys like us however, I do believe we would crack op ent eh TV and physcially remove whatever chip causes this nonsense from inside the TV. :)

zabomb4163

04-20-2006, 01:01 PM

i'd get a DVR and just record every tv show i watch.

idiotec

04-20-2006, 04:16 PM

i'd get a DVR and just record every tv show i watch.
It also keeps you from skipping commercials on your DVR. Sadly, this is the tech I could actually see happening. The idea of not being able to change the channel on live TV will never fly IMO. Not being able to skip commercials on your DVR I see as much more plausible, unfortunate, but plausible. But like others have said, I would have definitely use any hack out there to disable the feature.

Jeff

04-20-2006, 04:43 PM

My guess is the "hack" is going to be a built in code that disables this "feature" for troubleshooting purposes... kind of like the region free setting on all commercially available DVD players.

mursaat

04-20-2006, 10:45 PM

It will drive a lot of people away from TV. Not that there's much left that deserves to be seen, at least in Spain it's all garbage. I only watch the Simpsons (and the episodes are repeated to death, 2 each day...)