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Broadcast Industry Wades In On Dish Network's Hopper

Posted by samzenpus on from the biggest-skip dept.

gollum123 writes "As with past technological threats, network executives are closing ranks against a Dish Network device that undermines the broadcast business model. The disruptive technology at hand is an ad-eraser, embedded in new digital video recorders sold by Charles W. Ergen's Dish Network, one of the nation's top distributors of TV programming. Turn it on, and all the ads recorded on most prime-time network shows are automatically skipped, no channel-flipping or fast-forwarding necessary. Some reviewers have already called the feature, called the Auto Hop, a dream come true for consumers. But for broadcasters and advertisers, it is an attack on an entrenched television business model, and it must be strangled, lest it spread elsewhere."

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  1. Don't do that. by busyqth · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you skip ads, you stand with the child pornographers.

    1. Re:Don't do that. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      and you also support feeding baby seals to terrorists

    2. Re:Don't do that. by PopeRatzo · · Score: 5, Funny

      As for the channel owners? Screw 'em. I'm sorry, but I already pay for the service, and paid a bit extra for the channels. Why the hell should I be forced to become a source of further income to them?

      Because they are the job creators and unless you submit to their advertising you are siding with the islamomarxists who are trying to force you to have health insurance.

      Plus, they're only forcing you to look at their advertisements for your own good, because those very advertisements are the last line of defense against the evil informed consumer.

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    3. Re:Don't do that. by Fluffeh · · Score: 2, Funny

      Seals are around 25% fat. A mere 28 grams (that's like a SPOON of it) contains 11% of your recommended daily fat intake.. Feeding them to terrorists might not be such a bad idea. Feed em seal for a month, terrorist dies of a coronary.

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    4. Re:Don't do that. by isorox · · Score: 4, Funny

      The corporate machine is hawking its proverbial ass off and it has you square in its sights. How dare you deny them the opportunity to scream at you every waking moment of your life.

      Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
      Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.

  2. Re:Shades of Adnix and Preachnix by htnmmo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ironically doing a Google search for "Adnix and Preachnix" and clicking on the first page gets you a page full of ads, a popup and a warning message when you try and browse away. :)

  3. Re:Either pay or ads by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm from Europe, but aren't you paying for receiving Dish?

    From my standpoint: Either pay or ads, but never both.

    Your unwillingness to "pay both" is exactly why the Eurozone is collapsing into a tyranny of universal health care and subsidized education.

    Here in America, we realize that we're supposed to pay everyone except the government, who we hate as God intended.

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