November 27, 2007

IBM to force adds on DVD’s

This new idea is everyone’s nightmare, imagine you are watching a great film on DVD, it gets to a really exciting bit and all of sudden there is and advert that pops up, and what’s more to make it even worse the remote has been jammed so that you cannot fast forward it.

Sounds weird? Well you had better get used to it, because those great people over at IBM have come up with this great idea, so you can expect to be seeing on a TV screen near you in the very near future.

This feature will be placed onto discs that are lower priced, an ad free version would be available no doubt at a higher cost, whether the films will be more expensive and the films with ads are the same as they are now, is unknown! Will it catch on? Who knows!

Source [Ars Technica]