Posted by Paul Heslop on 01/16/66 11:46

"J. Clarke" wrote:
>
> Paul Heslop wrote:
>
> > Dick Sidbury wrote:
> >>
> >> In article <124fsdj2kl8jbe4@corp.supernews.com>, "Alpha" <x@x.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > http://apnews.excite.com/article/20060420/D8H3EIF83.html
> >>
> >> excerpt:
> >>
> >> Philips acknowledged, however, that the anti-channel changing technology
> >> might not sit well with consumers and suggested in its patent filing
> >> that consumers be allowed to avoid the feature if they paid broadcasters
> >> a fee.
> >>
> >> -----
> >> So dish network or direct tv decides to disable it on their
> >> transmissions (for free) and puts commercials on that emphasize that
> >> fact which people with cable must watch. The next day everyone switches
> >> to satellite. So in an effort to get their customers back, cable
> >> decides to follow suit. So the remaining question is do those who get
> >> over-the-air transmission feel it is worth the cost to buy cable or
> >> satellite in order to have control of what they watch.
> >>
> >> dick
> >> -- or as my daughter suggests, everyone bittorrents the shows without
> >> commercials the next day.
> >
> > Sky are already screwing around with our choices of what we see during
> > programs, sliding banners over the picture and having areas of screen
> > dedicated to permanent or moving notices. More and more it seems these
> > companies couldn;t give a crap. Let's face it, we already pay Sky for
> > the channels, THEN we have adverts between and during the programs
> > THEN we have them while the programs are on screen!
>
> There was a lot of that in the US a year or two back, I haven't seen nearly
> as much of it and what there is is far less obnoxious than it had been.
>
> --
> --John
> to email, dial "usenet" and validate
> (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

Well, I have a theory that politicians announce some measures well in
advance and make them as bad as they can so when people argue against
them they can say "Oh, okay, we're listening!" then knock some of it
on the head, thus retaining the parts of whatever it was they really
wanted to do in the first place, and I have this feeling with Sky,
etc. They will mess us around then reduce it a little and tell us we
have won.

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Paul (Take my hand, I'm standing right here)
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