Has anyone ever successfully argued that these types of games might actually provide a possibly healthy outlet for "deviants"? Allowing people who might otherwise act out in real life to express anger or other antisocial tendencies through video games could actually benefit society.
I'm sensing that Turner networks are going to lose this battle, but in the long run, the viewers are going to be the real losers. The advertisers are going to realize that nobody is actually paying attention to the spots, (Technology advancements or not... except for the SuperBowl of course...). Next thing you know we'll end up with banner ads on all of our tv content. Maybe this would be a good use for that extra screen real-estate on the 4:3 TVs once all the programming switches to 16:9... Then the TiVo engineers will figure out how to mask the ads, so the networks will decide that they need to "integrate" the advertising into the programming so that it can't be ignored. Sports teams will have to wear "ad-jerseys" (And tonight on TNT, its Pepsi vs. Coke in the most anticipated basketball game of the year!), and your favorite TV roll models will start developing almost addiction-like preferences for certain products... It's a brave new world...
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Has anyone ever successfully argued that these types of games might actually provide a possibly healthy outlet for "deviants"? Allowing people who might otherwise act out in real life to express anger or other antisocial tendencies through video games could actually benefit society.
I'm sensing that Turner networks are going to lose this battle, but in the long run, the viewers are going to be the real losers. The advertisers are going to realize that nobody is actually paying attention to the spots, (Technology advancements or not... except for the SuperBowl of course...). Next thing you know we'll end up with banner ads on all of our tv content. Maybe this would be a good use for that extra screen real-estate on the 4:3 TVs once all the programming switches to 16:9... Then the TiVo engineers will figure out how to mask the ads, so the networks will decide that they need to "integrate" the advertising into the programming so that it can't be ignored. Sports teams will have to wear "ad-jerseys" (And tonight on TNT, its Pepsi vs. Coke in the most anticipated basketball game of the year!), and your favorite TV roll models will start developing almost addiction-like preferences for certain products... It's a brave new world...