This is one of the problems about living in canada. The CRTC puts a stop to us getting to many of the US's ads. It pretty much seems that the commercials during the superbowl were about the same as they always are up here. Really dull. It is actually quite annoying. If anyone has links to any of the funnier commercials, some of the canadian/.ers would enjoy watching them. I really hate it when the government trys to limit what we can watch on tv.
I have dual feelings about this technology. On 1 hand, I do think that the Idea of it all is great. It is amazing the technologies that they can work with now. But on the second hand, I see it as yet another distraction in the car for the driver. Sure it will offer the driver better long range vision at night, but it is also 1 more thing for the driver to concetrate on. Personally I found that the digital gas and speed gauges were distracting enough...they are two "busy". I can just imagine how busy the display would be. I also think that drivers would get too dependant on the IR view.
I think that this is a good step ahead for people to be able to acess things like TV for free (witch it should be anyways). My only major worry about this is what limits that the CRTC will eventually put to this. We know how involved governments get into things that they shouldn't be involved in. And what about Telcos getting into the TV battle. Eventually NBTel is getting into the TV way of business by sending TV over the phone line. Chech out ImagicTV for more information on that.
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This is one of the problems about living in canada. The CRTC puts a stop to us getting to many of the US's ads. It pretty much seems that the commercials during the superbowl were about the same as they always are up here. Really dull. It is actually quite annoying. If anyone has links to any of the funnier commercials, some of the canadian /.ers would enjoy watching them. I really hate it when the government trys to limit what we can watch on tv.
I have dual feelings about this technology. On 1 hand, I do think that the Idea of it all is great. It is amazing the technologies that they can work with now.
But on the second hand, I see it as yet another distraction in the car for the driver. Sure it will offer the driver better long range vision at night, but it is also 1 more thing for the driver to concetrate on. Personally I found that the digital gas and speed gauges were distracting enough...they are two "busy". I can just imagine how busy the display would be. I also think that drivers would get too dependant on the IR view.
I think that this is a good step ahead for people to be able to acess things like TV for free (witch it should be anyways). My only major worry about this is what limits that the CRTC will eventually put to this. We know how involved governments get into things that they shouldn't be involved in. And what about Telcos getting into the TV battle. Eventually NBTel is getting into the TV way of business by sending TV over the phone line. Chech out ImagicTV for more information on that.