[opendtv] Re: News: Local Online Search Engines May Affect Ad Sales
- From: "Kon Wilms" <kon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:20:11 -0500
Exactly what I was referring to. It was pitched for the longest time as
a viable application - not! We did the whole thing of newspapers
delivered over data broadcast and printed on your printer automatically
at 6am. No-one (being users, not ad companies with pie in the sky ideas)
was ever interested.
Cheers
Kon
> During the 1998 Harris/PBS DTV Express series of seminars regarding ATSC,
> one of the demonstrations was for a "video coupon" where you had a
printer
> attached to your television or STB, and when an ad appeared on screen,
you
> could press a button on the TV remote to print out a coupon. This is
also
> where the "click on the 'Friends' couch and find where to purchase it"
> nonsense was put forth.
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