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Posted by michael on from the locate-oprah dept.

wyldchild37 writes: "Business 2.0 has an article on an interesting new technology - TV That Works Like the Web. A new startup wants to make all television content archived, indexed, and searchable."

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  1. Great! by A_Non_Moose · · Score: 3, Funny

    now I can get an error 404 on my TV.

    Just what I wanted.

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    1. Re:Great! by elbles · · Score: 2, Funny

      . . . And a "403 Forbidden" error whenever you try to access the Playboy channel!

  2. Woohoo!!! by istartedi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great. Now we can type stuff into the TV, get 500,000 irrelevant results, get distracted by an I Love Lucy rerun, and wake up 4 hours later trying to remember what we were looking for. Thanks again technology.

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  3. Re:This could be really exciting! by terpia · · Score: 3, Funny

    I would be nice to be able to say "find all Star Trek episodes that show pictures of older ships named enterprise"...

    Or, if you were like most trekkies, you'd say: "find all frames within Voyager episodes that contain Seven of Nines chest"

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  4. Re:Nope. Not gonna do it. by MousePotato · · Score: 4, Funny
    Here here. Your requests are right on the mark at least on my list. Additionally features that I want in truly 'Interactive Television' :
    • A button that takes out the mosaics on the Howard Stern Show and E!'s Wild On series.
    • A button that cancels censor bleeps.
    • A goo feature so Neil Cavuto's head can appear even larger on my 60"
    • Something that also gets rid of the obnoxious ticker display all the news channels are constantly running with 'update' information they refresh like twice a day.
    • A compressor to equalize the sound ending thr cycle of volume up / volue down... no more super quiet talk that makes you pump the volume only to rock the cup of coffee out of my neighbors hand when something loud happens at the high level and forces the volume button down again...
    • Infomercial eliminator mode; a temporary killfile for channels that are displaying 'Paid Programming' from the list of available things to watch when scrolling through the channel guide at 3:30 am.
    • A favorite channels version of the channel guide.
    • How about an auto dial or link mode for commercials that take me to an advertisers website?

    Ah... the list could go on...
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