IBM wants to put commercials in the MIDDLE your DVDs!
By CraftyCorner
@CraftyCorner (5600)
United States
November 30, 2007 1:15am CST
IBM wants your DVD movie to be filled with commercials. Not at the beginning, not at the end. IN THE MIDDLE just like commercial television.
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I was under the impression that we paid extra for the DVD's was to avoid the antacid commercial interruptions during the action scenes of the Terminator. We watch TV for commercial peppered content.
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Not only to add insult to advertisement, we are going to be paying good money for this. We will pay the same money we are paying now for the commercial infested disks. For commercial free material, we will have to shell out extra.
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2 responses
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
30 Nov 07
I have to say that I actually enjoy watching some movies to see the product placement in them. Jackie Chan's earlier movies are full of them and they are so much fun!
Hey, maybe I've come up with a new "drinking" game! spot the product placement!
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
30 Nov 07
I think the Honda will be a no brainer in "Gone With The Wind" don't you think?
@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
3 Dec 07
True. Those are tolerable cuz the Nissan cars are carrying movie characters or Pepsi's being drank by characters and the plot's chugging along. But if a commercial CUTS in, say, your watching a chase scene in Star Trek and that Gecko pops up to pawn off some car insurance on a green lawn...
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
30 Nov 07
Its not putting products in the movies, its spotting them when they are in them already. One early (after he became the star but before he left Hong Kong) movie we spotted a Pepsi and a Toyota placement, and those were the easy ones! Close up of can with name before someone picks it up and drinks it. Close up of car name before it drives off.
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@CinderInMySoul (4717)
• United States
30 Nov 07
what?! thats messed up! i know i would be pissed if in the middle of a movie a commercial pops up!
where did you hear this? you have a link to an article or something?
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
30 Nov 07
Here's the dirt from a reliable tech site...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11991.cfm
