DVR that can watch and listen to the goings-on in your living room

[tay]

Verizon has filed a patent for a DVR that can watch and listen to the goings-on in your living room. In the application, the company proposes to use the technology to serve targeted ads appropriate to whatever you’re doing in the, uh, privacy of your own home—fighting, cuddling, or hanging out with your cats.

How to get targeted ads on your TV? Try a camera in your set-top box. | Ars Technica

 

[L Gilbert]

lol Won't work here. Neither of us watch tv much and when we do, we invariably leave the room when ads come on. Days go by without the tv being on because we've found we can watch what we want on the computer and its ad-free. Besides, the more an ad annoys us the less likely we are to buy the product and 99.9% of ads annoy us.

 

[eh1eh]

What moron would put one of those in their living room?

 

[Cliffy]

What moron would put one of those in their living room?

Exhibitionists. Some people get off on being watched.

You could actually have fun with it. Sit there picking your nose just to see what kind of ad they will throw up. The possibilities are endless... "Name the Next Advert". Entertainment for the whole family (and probably better than 95% of what is offered on TV anyway).

 

[taxslave]

What moron would put one of those in their living room?

Lots of people have TVs in their living room. Not everyone has a spare room to put the idiot box in.

 

[Liberalman]

Santa this is what I want for Christmas!

Rogers Cable TV already has the peeping Tom technology in their PVRs that they rent out to their cable customers