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  1. #46
    Jer
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    Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!

    marx404 wrote:
    > Just FYI to add to this interesting thread...
    >
    > A certain American car company wants to start viral cellular SMS ads and
    > text message ads. Hopefully they will see the potential legal and privacy
    > issues and abandon this very stupid idea.
    >
    > If somehow advertisers weasel their way to SMS message spam, my solution
    > would be to either block incoming messages, block all phone calls not from
    > my address book and /or purchase an older basic cell phone that does not
    > have those capabilities like the Moto F3 for example.
    >



    My recommendation would be for you to start shopping for that F3 right
    now. Considering the revenue stream the cellular companies would earn
    on this deal, there's no way in hell they'll be interested in developing
    a method for their own customers to filter anything. A good example of
    their performance for this issue would be their own history, which is
    exactly and sadly nil.

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  2. #47
    Kurt
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    Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!

    In article <C48446C9.9D41%[email protected]>,
    George Kerby <[email protected]> wrote:

    > On 6/22/08 11:59 AM, in article
    > [email protected], "George"
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    > > [email protected] wrote:
    > >> In alt.cellular.verizon Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >>> [email protected] wrote in news:[email protected]:
    > >>
    > >>>> In alt.cellular.verizon Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >>>>
    > >>>>> I believe in response to heavy pressure from the advertisers, cable
    > >>>>> company tivo equipment is already hobbled to prevent ad bypassing.
    > >>>>> Users must get their own unhobbled units....just like SELLPHONES!
    > >>>> Wrong.
    > >>>>
    > >>>>
    > >>
    > >>> I guess you are right and all these guys are crazy:
    > >>
    > >> I didn't look at the cites. Instead, I glanced over my shoulder at
    > >> my brand-new, fresh from the cable company DVR. It allows skipping
    > >> forward and back, and you can set the time interval from ten seconds to a
    > >> few minutes for each. I set the Forward for 30 seconds, and the back for
    > >> 10. The feature is designed specifically to zap commercials.

    > >
    > > Actually that feature is designed to skip back and forth by whatever
    > > increment you set. Commercial skipping is a different thing. I have a
    > > DVR I built that uses opensource software and it runs a commercial
    > > detection job after the recording and makes a table of jump points. You
    > > can program it to edit out the commercials by itself or just hit a
    > > button on the remote which skips over the commercial whether it is 11
    > > seconds or 4 minutes 11 seconds long.
    > >

    >
    > ReplayTV? It runs circles around TIVO. Too bad it was bought by DirecTV and
    > shelved.


    Tivo was great with DirecTV, it's DirecTV's crappy branded version
    that's the problem.

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