Philips can make you watch….

Posted by By cdharris at 19 July, at 11 : 07 AM Print

Electronics manufacturer Philips has reportedly filed a patent for technology to force viewers to watch the ads in a television or video program. Basically they plan to add extra flags to the Multimedia Home Platform that would stop controls from working until the ads are finished.” From the article: “Philips’ patent acknowledges that this may be ‘greatly resented by viewers’ who could initially think their equipment has gone wrong. So it suggests the new system could throw up a warning on screen when it is enforcing advertisement viewing. The patent also suggests that the system could offer viewers the chance to pay a fee interactively to go back to skipping advertisements.”