NCR won the ATM contracts many years ago - taking IBM out of Westpac and the Commonwealth Bank. They have put the squeeze on techies for a long time - it is hard to make a living wage working for the likes of them. Flat-rate $80 jobs with large travel involved. Everywhere is so lean now - NCR is lean and cheap.
I wish the techies well.
We are going to see advertising embedded into the programmig. This will go beyond product placement and will include scrolling ads on various parts of the screen. Eventually, so much screen space will be taken up by advertising that it will be hard to see the program.
They will keep adding more advertsing and make it more and more blatant as long as people are still willing to watch it. You only have to watch survivor or a soap to see how blatant product placement can be.
A question for you all - my wife is watching a reality tv show here in Oz called 'my restaurant rules'. Now, I claim that the votes are rigged and un-audited? She, of course, claims them to be above reproach. I believe that they are rigged to get more advertising viewers and more sms voting (ie profit). Comments?
The TV industry is used to being paid by their customers, which are the advertisers. This is a new thing - viewers wanting to buy programming directly. This must seem very painful for them, as if they stuff up then they have to deal with low sales and thus will have to produce quality product at a fair price in order to keep their revenue streaming in.
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NCR won the ATM contracts many years ago - taking IBM out of Westpac and the Commonwealth Bank. They have put the squeeze on techies for a long time - it is hard to make a living wage working for the likes of them. Flat-rate $80 jobs with large travel involved. Everywhere is so lean now - NCR is lean and cheap. I wish the techies well.
We are going to see advertising embedded into the programmig. This will go beyond product placement and will include scrolling ads on various parts of the screen. Eventually, so much screen space will be taken up by advertising that it will be hard to see the program. They will keep adding more advertsing and make it more and more blatant as long as people are still willing to watch it. You only have to watch survivor or a soap to see how blatant product placement can be. A question for you all - my wife is watching a reality tv show here in Oz called 'my restaurant rules'. Now, I claim that the votes are rigged and un-audited? She, of course, claims them to be above reproach. I believe that they are rigged to get more advertising viewers and more sms voting (ie profit). Comments?
The TV industry is used to being paid by their customers, which are the advertisers. This is a new thing - viewers wanting to buy programming directly. This must seem very painful for them, as if they stuff up then they have to deal with low sales and thus will have to produce quality product at a fair price in order to keep their revenue streaming in.