Actually, it's the beginning of the end for us, not the TV business. Advertisers and TV execs have found it much harder to sell TV time because of all of us skippers, so they've decided on a different strategy.
Sometime in the next couple of months our TiVo boxes will receive new software that will show us advertisements while we're skipping through the ads. I'm not sure how it will work but it's coming soon. Look at what they do to us in the theatres with 20 minutes of ads before the movie. Pull out the insert ads in the next magazine you buy. Look at how much of the newspaper is content vs. advertising. Look at the popup crap on the web. Get used to is, the used car dealers are gonna find a way to get their obnoxious message to you whether you want it or not. I'd LOVE to see the Flinstones put back the way they used to be...with Fred turning on the TV, sitting back and telling us how refreshing a Winston cigarette is. Rex Baldazo wrote: > > I can see that these boxes are going to kill the TV business > > as we know it because none of us watch commercials any more. > > It's amazing how fast an hour of West Wing goes by when you > > zap out all the commercials. > > Yeah that's the big gorilla in all this TiVo/DVR stuff. Making shows > isn't free, it's gotta be paid for somehow. This is probably the > beginning of the end for commercial television as we know it. > > Ironically I think it may bring us back full circle to the old days, > where products were placed directly in the shows. So for example, at > some point instead of basing shows at fictional coffee shops a la > "Friends", a company like Starbucks will pay to have the show based in a > Starbucks. That way the commercial is built right into the show. > > --- Rex. > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
