Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word)

ctwxman writes "Say it isn't so. Full-motion commercials, when you go to click off a page, are coming to a website near you! The New York Times (standing in a bathtub with an electric iron required) reports: "Beginning tomorrow, more than a dozen Web sites, including MSN, ESPN, Lycos and iVillage, will run full-motion video commercials from Pepsi, AT&T, Honda, Vonage and Warner Brothers, in a six-week test that some analysts and online executives say could herald the start of a new era of Internet advertising." Unicast, the company responsible, says the ads will play regardless of pop-up blocking. "The only format that loads completely before it is allowed to play, the Full Screen Superstitial is guaranteed to play perfectly for every consumer, every time." I work in TV where commercials pay the freight. Is this so wrong on the net? It's not what we're used to, but maybe we're asking for more than is reasonable. I just don't know." I think I hear the whip swinging back, but harder ...

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[SHEENmaster]

it's called a Digital Signal Processor, and it usually has at least one volume setting.

Also note that Linux on PowerPC has no Flash browser, and doesn't play flash ads. Macromedia is too busy ruining the web to use a freakin cross-compiler.

Re:Wrong perspective

[really?]

You are trying to use logic and common sense. Are you perhaps forgetting where you are? This is Slashgimmegimmegimmedot.