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To: Dysart

They've BEEN doing this (making it where ads could be fastforwarded and still read).

Look at the text that is slowly displayed in the center of the screen. Sometimes a black screen. Videotape had skew when fastforwarded but no significant details were in the ads there.

My DVR drive will "advance" 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes, 3 minutes without having to show me any of what is in between. So unless they are bumping up the "male interest" factor (i.e. sexy women), men are unlikely to even try looking for the ads.

More likely, the future of advertising will be "popups" that superimpose over the program itself (look at the CW logo hype or whatever that new channel is called). That or to the side of the program (as we go to widescreen tv, there will be a lot of "gutter" from the old format that 50 years of tv reruns are still formatted to (unless we start chopping off the top and bottom of the screen on old shows).


5 posted on 09/15/2006 6:01:37 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: weegee

Someone should make an ad that has a second "layer" that can ONLY be seen by the DVR


8 posted on 09/15/2006 6:10:17 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The state board will meet in closed session to discuss whether it violated an open meetings law)
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