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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."
Damn .. if Rush Limbaugh doesn't like it, it MUST be good .. but if it gives you more ads, then it's BAD, cause ads are BAD .. argh .. my brain hurts!
TV is for nursing homes and coma wards. If you are blessed with more cortical activity than a salad bar, turn off the tube and go do something useful.
Oh, you are just the soul of wit there sonny. What razor-sharp sarcasm, wielded with such subtlety and cleverness.
Advertising is a mental assault. Constantly cramming more and more into TV is a disgusting practice. If you think having your brain bombarded with seizure-inducing lights and sounds in a rapid succession is fine if they don't charge you for it, then park yourself in front of your TV and enjoy.
This is just great...now, we have sacraficed video quality and have to put up with just that many more ads. What really tees me off is we pay alotta money for DigitalTV and we still get ads on the DigitalTV channels -- even the 5 HBO channels. What a rip.
Pretty soon, they'll be saying, "We now interrupt your regularly scheduled ad to go to a program". Or, "We now interrupt your adomercial for some ads".
We need to go back to the days before the radio waves were controlled by the FCC...no control at all...there'd be no ads, and diverse viewpoints would get out. Access to particular frequencies would be determined by a LAN-like system...if two people requested the same frequency at the same time, their machines would each resend the request after a random time interval...whoever got it first would go.
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