In article ,
David Eduardo wrote:
The receivers are getting cheaper and better. I have a newer Boston
Acoustics HD, and it gets all the HD2 channels inside a building that faces
away fromt he transmitters. By the time there is more content, there will be
many more recievers out, and the price point will move down. My first VHS
was $800. My first CD player was $1500. My first DVD player was over $300. A
year or so later, prices were down by more than half. Now you can get a DVD
player for $19 after a rebate.

And pretty soon, somebody will have a radio with Tivo like features for
$39.95 that records several (or all of the available) stations and has
fast forward buttons so that no one will ever need to listen to a
commercial. And then what happens to your business?

Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

Mark Zenier wrote:
In article ,
David Eduardo wrote:
The receivers are getting cheaper and better. I have a newer Boston
Acoustics HD, and it gets all the HD2 channels inside a building that faces
away fromt he transmitters. By the time there is more content, there will be
many more recievers out, and the price point will move down. My first VHS
was $800. My first CD player was $1500. My first DVD player was over $300. A
year or so later, prices were down by more than half. Now you can get a DVD
player for $19 after a rebate.

And pretty soon, somebody will have a radio with Tivo like features for
$39.95 that records several (or all of the available) stations and has
fast forward buttons so that no one will ever need to listen to a
commercial. And then what happens to your business?



Actually, the latest versions of TiVo and it's clones now are
starting to display popup advertisements when the user attempts to
fastforward through the commercials.

As a joke a few years ago, the Onion had a story about a court
decision that mandated advertising be viewed by the consumer. Less than
that was 'theft of service' on advertising supported content, and
criminal penalties could range from fines to maximum security
imprisonment.

Within weeks Ted Turner, in a speech before media types, said that
skipping commercials was criminal theft of service, and efforts were
underway to stop it.

With product placement, and CCU's new 'adlets,' just being two
methods, circumvention of listener's wishes to avoid the barrage of
advertising will become an industry unto itself.

SW, getting back onto the topic, is one of the very few media outlets
that isn't advertising supported, with limited exceptions, of course.
Shame that it's also going the way of the 50 gallon clears.







Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

In article ,
D Peter Maus wrote:
Mark Zenier wrote:
And pretty soon, somebody will have a radio with Tivo like features for
$39.95 that records several (or all of the available) stations and has
fast forward buttons so that no one will ever need to listen to a
commercial. And then what happens to your business?

Actually, the latest versions of TiVo and it's clones now are
starting to display popup advertisements when the user attempts to
fastforward through the commercials.

And Tivo, as a company is now (or soon to be) roadkill. First, the
cable set top box manufacturers are duplicating their boxes' functions.

And anybody but the brain dead will think twice or three times to buying
a box that requires a subscription, a phone line, and will snitch on
you about every time you did a rewind to get another look at a good
cleavage shot. And now this. They really needed to figure out who
their customers are.

Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

Mark Zenier wrote:
In article ,
D Peter Maus wrote:
Mark Zenier wrote:
And pretty soon, somebody will have a radio with Tivo like features for
$39.95 that records several (or all of the available) stations and has
fast forward buttons so that no one will ever need to listen to a
commercial. And then what happens to your business?
Actually, the latest versions of TiVo and it's clones now are
starting to display popup advertisements when the user attempts to
fastforward through the commercials.

And Tivo, as a company is now (or soon to be) roadkill. First, the
cable set top box manufacturers are duplicating their boxes' functions.

And anybody but the brain dead will think twice or three times to buying
a box that requires a subscription, a phone line, and will snitch on
you about every time you did a rewind to get another look at a good
cleavage shot.


The primary reasons I never got a TiVo.


And now this. They really needed to figure out who
their customers are.


Truth is: Most people don't care about the cost, the privacy
invasion, or even the use of the phone.

They care about features, and convenience. Which goes a long way to
explaining why TiVo boxes are being replaced with Cable boxes with TiVo
features. Many of which are actually TiVo boxes in cable clothing.

"D Peter Maus" wrote in message
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Mark Zenier wrote:
In article ,
D Peter Maus wrote:
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And anybody but the brain dead will think twice or three times to buying
a box that requires a subscription, a phone line, and will snitch on
you about every time you did a rewind to get another look at a good
cleavage shot.


The primary reasons I never got a TiVo.

Once you have on, and I have had them since the first year... something like
7 or 8 years ago... and could not lieve without one. I hve three different
ones in the house.


And now this. They really needed to figure out who
their customers are.


Truth is: Most people don't care about the cost, the privacy invasion,
or even the use of the phone.

They care about features, and convenience. Which goes a long way to
explaining why TiVo boxes are being replaced with Cable boxes with TiVo
features. Many of which are actually TiVo boxes in cable clothing.

I have a cable "equivalent" at my weekned place. It is hateful in every
aspect (Time Warner) from the awful software to the remote control to the
highly inaccurate listings of upcoming progframs. I am swiutching to Direct
TV and a TIVO sometime this year when I can be there on a weekday to meet
the installer. A friend who moved to an apartment where he could not get
Direct TV had to use cable for a year. He said one of the main reasons for
mving was the awful cable implementation of its TiVo rip-off.

Up yours,,,,,Blah blah blah,I knows me listener stuff. www.us963.com
Jacksonnnnnnn,,, where GOD isn't dead and 103.FM.
Bite me!
cuhulin

I know the good stuff,and I dont need a stinking shotewave to get it
either.We are Mississippi Coon Asses around here.
cuhulin

A few years ago,I once counted no less than thirteen Stupid tv
commercials,one right after the other,non stop on a movie I was trying
to watch on tv.I am the World's Worst Hater of ALL kinds of
advertisements and commercials,PERIOD!
cuhulin