Trimming Television to Sell More Ads

gambit3 writes: "Tech TV has an article about a device called a "Digital Time Machine", that does something called "Time Trimming", which is basically a way to cut single frames from different scenes in TV programs, which, over the course of a 30 minute program, can add up to 30 seconds, which is, incidentally, the perfect length to add ANOTHER commercial."

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Re:They're trying to SPAM us with ads

[Graymalkin]

That's one of the dumbest proposals I've ever seen on slashdot. If there's no way for somebody to secure rights to a frequency in a given region then I'm going to stick up an antenna so powerful nobody in a 100 mile radius is going to be able to broadcast on any of the frequencies I do. There'd be no ads and no programming because without ads noone could afford to broadcast anything. Unless of course you only cared what the top 10% of the population had to say. Oh yeah, being a devoted internet devotee right now you only care what the top 30% of people have to say anyhow. Good job dude.