YOU! NOT BUYING YOUR GOODS AT RETAIL PRICES, YOU ARE VERY BAD PEOPLE. MARGINALLY DAMAGING THE BOTTOM LINE OF OTHER MAJOR E-TAILERS. YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED. #political
This `telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a practical form of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Western Union internal memo, 1878
What use could this company make of an electrical toy? - Western Union president William Orton, responding to an offer from Alexander Graham Bell to sell his telephone company to Western Union for $100,000.
Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value. - Editorial in the Boston Post (1865)
Radio has no future. - Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), British mathematician and physicist, ca. 1897.
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming. - Lee DeForest, 1926 (American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube.)
[Television] won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. - Darryl F. Zanuck, head of 20th Century-Fox, 1946.
"By letting users record scores of TV shows and watch them without commercials, the Hopper "cuts the legs out from under the ad-supported broadcast television business model" and disrupts Fox's ability to recoup its investment in its shows, the network told the Ninth Circuit."
@mfladd As someone whose salary has been paid off TV ad revenue for the better part of a decade now, I have mixed feelings about this. It's how we generate revenue, but as a viewer I usually skip them at home when I can.
@jqubed take the google approach to it... who cares if some skip the ads, there will be plenty who don't. ... and the ones that don't are more malleable anyway... the odds of your ad convincing someone willing to skip it are pretty low... but the ones that just sit and veg... they are the goldmine. :)
@thismyusername I think there'd actually probably only be some minor shifts, particularly at the national level. Nielsen's sampling and statistical models are fairly decent overall. Of course, the advertisers would love it if they could get the exact, real data for every individual in the country. The targeting would be even more precise.
@jqubed Cable boxes have had the technology to report back to the cable company what you are watching in real time. You don't think they are collecting that data? It's why you have to cut through a bunch of red tape to use your own box. I'm going to go put on my tin foil hat now...
This `telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a practical form of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Western Union internal memo, 1878
What use could this company make of an electrical toy? - Western Union president William Orton, responding to an offer from Alexander Graham Bell to sell his telephone company to Western Union for $100,000.
Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value. - Editorial in the Boston Post (1865)
Radio has no future. - Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), British mathematician and physicist, ca. 1897.
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming. - Lee DeForest, 1926 (American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube.)
[Television] won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. - Darryl F. Zanuck, head of 20th Century-Fox, 1946.
DVR's are evil!
"By letting users record scores of TV shows and watch them without commercials, the Hopper "cuts the legs out from under the ad-supported broadcast television business model" and disrupts Fox's ability to recoup its investment in its shows, the network told the Ninth Circuit."
@mfladd As someone whose salary has been paid off TV ad revenue for the better part of a decade now, I have mixed feelings about this. It's how we generate revenue, but as a viewer I usually skip them at home when I can.
@jqubed take the google approach to it... who cares if some skip the ads, there will be plenty who don't.
... and the ones that don't are more malleable anyway... the odds of your ad convincing someone willing to skip it are pretty low... but the ones that just sit and veg... they are the goldmine. :)
@thismyusername The only people who really matter are the ones with the Nielsen boxes in their homes. Everyone else can go jump in a lake.
@jqubed ikr, crazyness. If the real data were known do you think the ad biz would have flourished so? :D
@thismyusername I think there'd actually probably only be some minor shifts, particularly at the national level. Nielsen's sampling and statistical models are fairly decent overall. Of course, the advertisers would love it if they could get the exact, real data for every individual in the country. The targeting would be even more precise.
@jqubed Cable boxes have had the technology to report back to the cable company what you are watching in real time. You don't think they are collecting that data? It's why you have to cut through a bunch of red tape to use your own box.
I'm going to go put on my tin foil hat now...
http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s15e09-the-last-of-the-meheecans
Don't places marginally improve their lot by selling their unsold crap to Meh?