{"id":268,"date":"2006-05-23T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/c4pigbr.wordpress.com\/2006\/05\/23\/philips-patent-app-would-force-you-to-watch-commercials-both-live-and-recorded"},"modified":"2006-05-23T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T09:31:00","slug":"philips-patent-app-would-force-you-to-watch-commercials-both-live-and-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.c4pi.de\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":">Philips patent app would force you to watch commercials, both live and recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&gt;Ouch. Not allowed to change channel during tv-ads?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/04\/18\/philips-patent-app-would-force-you-to-watch-commercials-both-li\/\">Philips patent app would force you to watch commercials, both live and recorded<\/a>: &#8222;Filed under: Home Entertainment In a move that would surely delight advertisers but enrage consumers, Philips is trying to patent a method for flagging digital TV content to not only prevent viewers from changing the channel during commercials in live broadcasts, but to actually lock out fast-forwarding capabilities during ads in recorded programs as well. Even worse, the patent specifically applies to the already widely-deployed Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) middleware system standard, meaning that many Europeans&#8216; current TVs would be susceptible to these Orwellian controls. Since the US version of this platform, OCAP, is largely based on the MHP architecture, it&#8217;s not a stretch to imagine such flagging being applied to American sets as well. Although we&#8217;re certain that a workaround would be developed if Philips&#8216; evil plan ever actually materializes, just the thought of our DVRs going impotent is enough to fill us with fear and trepidation.Update 1: Reader Paul B, who also happened to chair the group that wrote the MHP &#8222;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/20927199-114837670042400987?l=ingwing.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&gt;Ouch. Not allowed to change channel during tv-ads? Philips patent app would force you to watch commercials, both live and recorded: &#8222;Filed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.c4pi.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.c4pi.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.c4pi.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.c4pi.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.c4pi.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.c4pi.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.c4pi.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.c4pi.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.c4pi.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}