On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 20:50:35 MDT, Vernon Schryver
<vjs(_at_)calcite(_dot_)rhyolite(_dot_)com> said:
if "commercial insertion" is a new idea. The local TV affliate or cable
operator's computers replace a lot of dead air and other people's ads with
their own....as I think about it, I realize I've got to be behind the
times. I bet many of the so called free ISP's and perhaps others must
Well, on the TV front, not only are they injecting ads over the
top of other less-profitable ads, but they're even doing on-the-fly
manipulation of sports events, injecting faked banners onto shots of
stadium walls..
Makes you wonder who to trust, if a tennis match is being altered in
real time....
Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech