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The new TV revenue model.
It seems that the next model for television revenue is going to be charging users a fee to use their remote controls:
But limiting remote controls is a possibility that could be realized in a new technical standard — M.H.P., for multimedia home standard — that the television industry is contemplating for the future. Neither broadcasters nor television manufacturers, whose joint cooperation would be necessary, have yet to adopt the standard. If the television industry embraced M.H.P., broadcasters could insert special signals to immobilize the remote control during commercials. If this came to pass, Mr. Peters said the Philips technology would "give consumers the freedom of choice" — "freedom" defined as exercising the option to pay a fee in order to regain the use of the remote control.
More and more companies seem to be claiming rights over products I have purchased, limiting the rights of customers to use what they paid for. How long will it be before the try to take away the right to change the channel?
Fortunately I still have the ultimate choice. I can turn the television off.
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