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Tony Reed wrote:

> There are some interesting developments in digital tv recorders.  Visit
> <http://www.replaytv.com> to see the first commercial offering.

[snip]

> So very cautious.  Just wait until the newspapers start touting this as
> the future of commercial-free teevee.  Big corporations will start
> screaming about it, "It's a threat to the very fabric of our society,"
> and so on.

    I think this is like the predictions about 200-channel cable
television: ideal in theory, but bound by the practical laws of
commercialism.

    I think that what would happen should people begin to zap is either put
commercials at the bottom of the screen in the form of banners, or charge
ungodly amounts of money for television service to make up for the loss
inrevenues.




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