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...industries are also at odds on the technology that drives TiVo and its imitators. These services allow you to record any show by name, zip through commercials and pause live TV. DISH and DirecTV have embraced the concept, but most cable companies prefer something similar called VOD (video on demand). Unfortunately, VOD is available in only a handful of markets right now and is mostly just for movies...
...free in 1994 secured $53 billion in online commerce in the first three quarters of this year. As the Internet weaves its way into more devices, so does encryption technology. Sony's PlayStation 2 consoles include encryption software that allows gamers to communicate securely with their online playmates. TiVo television-recording systems receive encrypted software updates without the owner's even realizing...
...industries are also at odds on the technology that drives TiVo and its imitators. These services allow you to record any show by name, zip through commercials and pause live TV. DISH and DirecTV have embraced the concept, but most cable companies prefer something similar called VOD (video on demand). Unfortunately, VOD is available in only a handful of markets right now and is mostly just for movies...
Like it or not, consumers are probably going to see more and more unexpected, and undercover, pitches. That's because the old model, the 30-second TV spot, is proving less and less effective. Digital video recorders such as TiVo now give viewers the ability to banish commercials, prompting network executive Jamie Kellner, CEO of Turner Broadcasting System (which, like TIME, is owned by AOL Time Warner), to warn that commercial-supported free TV is an endangered species...
Another option, of course, is making television advertisements themselves just another form of entertainment—advertainment, if you will. Lazy creatures that we are, even the most TiVO-savvy viewer would obligingly sit through the sponsor’s spots if they were interesting enough. From the earliest days of television, when Milton Berle sold Texaco gas in drag, advertising has been a form of entertainment; now it just needs to get better...