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Video Adverts On the Printed Page
An anonymous reader writes "Prepare yourself. A staple of near-future sci-fi—magazine video ads—are now a thing of the present. And which high-tech magazine is leading the charge? Wired? Popular Mechanics? Nope. Successful Farming. The advertisement itself is for a pesticide that protects crops against nematodes. You can see a video of the video here."
Well, considering that it's an advert for poison...
Forgive me if I sound like a kneejerk hippy, but this just doesn't seem at all green.
Just turn off all the red and blue pixels, and it'll be green.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Yo dawg! I heard you like overkill, so we put up a video of a video of an advertisement in an advertisement so you can watch while you read about watching while you read!
You can just install ad block plus and you won't be bothered by these anymore.
Then they just have to make it proofed against everything up to and including a sledgehammer.
But if you want to make sure that you aren't annoyed a few seconds in the microwave would take care of the problem.
The next thought is - can this be hacked? Probably, and now we will wait for those items to appear in pr0n magazines too. Just imagine what people will look like if the magazine stand starts to moan.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Did anyone catch whether or not there was a mute button? I could see an ad with audio like that being incredibly annoying when reading in a public place.
Overall though, I think this is an interesting trend. I definitely wonder whether or not the benefit of such an ad outweighs the cost of all the extra hardware...
I tried to remove the superfluous stuff from your post, here's the same thing in shorter form.
I'm confused by 1) how this works 2) whether it's a good thing. I don't know what "trend" means.
You're welcome...
finally playboy can add video's to their magazine!
www.playboy.com + Mobile Internet Device
Adding videos to their magazine is like adding apostrophes to words that don't need them.
which is totally what she said
Preposterou's!