That will never ever make it to the market, unless of course phillips wants to kill all of it’s business and give it to competitors. Yeah, I pay for the DVR service in my house and that thing isn’t coming anywhere near the equipment or services that I spent my hard earned money on. I can think of a better place where they should put that thing… 
haha yeah thats true.
you could buy freshly hax’ed remotes from the shady dude that hangs around behind the supermarket 
I agree with Rad, who would buy such a thing? If Philips starts selling mean televisions to us, we start buying Sony! 
The problem is, it wouldn’t just be in the TVs is would be in the companies set-top boxes which means it doesn’t matter what TV you own, philips or sony.
Of course, you could always turn the TV off for a couple minutes 
BLASHPHEMER!
Well this will only make people look for alternatives… illegal or not. People will look for more freedom not less, that’s just a natural evolution.
I suppose one possibility, would be to record it to a CD/DVD then you can edit out all the ads on a PC before watching it.
You can have freedom of speech, but you can’t force me to listen.
This is just another assult on humanity’s freedom. True, it is not a big deal, but it fits in the scope of assults on freedoms. People need to fight things like this, in order to make a point. WE WILL NOT STAND FOR YOU(governments and corporations)TAKING AWAY OUR FREEDOMS!
It is my belief that this invention is a corporate assult on freedom, to maximize the brainwashing ads that are pushed down out throat on a daily basis. Almost everywhere you look, there are ads. I am seeing one right now(ld4all store). Corporations are using advertising and product placement to influence what we think we need, and to control our way of life so that they gain more money. We think we need these things, and work to gain them, thus not only serving the corporate world by buying things, but by serving them with labor, and helping the economy that they bet on in the form of stocks and bonds.
Right here and now, I propose a boycott on Phillips products should this ever hit the market. Anyone with me?
Haha actually my first thought after reading was “goodbye Philips you lost a customer” (and I have bought quite a lot of stuff from Philips in the past). Problem is these kind of things happen with so many big companies! Remember the Sony CD technology that installs spyware on your computer?
Anyway, these kind of tricks to control consumers are totally unrealistic because to succeed they will eventually have to forbid the internet. If people can choose between an expensive CD that installs spyware on their PC or a nice clean (and free) high quality mp3 what do you think many if not most will choose? And the same is true for movies en television. Companies will just have to find a way to convince us to buy their stuff again so they better adapt to new realities.
Soon we will even have P2P television where you can watch TV channels from everywhere in the world. They tried to stop that Cyburski guy with his p2p program but eventually it will just happen simply because it’s technologically possible. And commercial digital TV with al its funny restrictions will get hit - in my country you can’t even record programs when you have a digital tv subscription, that’s not progress that’s going back to the pre VHS seventies!
I realize things like this Phillips program will not work, but to just sit by and let them do this is just like saying, “yes, Mr. Corporate, you can control us!”
If anyone does this, competitors will get tons of business when they advertise themselves as “the TV service that isn’t a total, blood-sucking prick.”
If we’re lucky, maybe Philips was just trying to get to the patent before anyone else and save us from ever having to deal with such evil by not allowing companies to infringe.
philips could make alot of money by allowing companies to use it should it ever be used in products. Businesses play for money not morality.
wow…the bible told of the end of the world…but not in such a horrible way as this.
wow dude thats odd…the Bill Gates thing that is
HAHAHAHAHA! 
You can use Bible verses to prove ANYTHING!
So many things make this idea so very lol
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VCR. Fast Forward. Recording Problem Solved.
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Stand up as consumers and say you won’t buy it. Buy old equipment and use that. You need to show them the truth: The customer is always right.
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Someone will probably find the switch and turn it off, and tell everyone to turn it off, then say “zomg, were teh 1337 h4x4rs for teh w1n!”
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Failing everything… you could just… get up, and tend to that swolen bladder of yours… maybe go out, get some fresh air… kind of like people did back in 1996. Maybe even turn it off for a while?
[color=red][size=150]Tha Horrraaaah![/size][/color]
Naw, they’d put in a security system to control what you’re watching without your consent. The security system will be very malicious, and take over all the appliances in your house, and install something in your power box that will allow people to use your blender without your permission. People will be outraged, and demand a fix. Sony will give in, and release a fix. However, the fix will burn your house down. Meanwhile, hackers will have figured out how to bypass the security, which is accomplished by inserting a black marker into the audio in port, thus foiling millions of dollars of security research with a 2 dollar item. 
Someone will bypass it. It said in the article that it would work similar to the PPV channels and we all know how bypassable they are.
Here’s a little something else you aren’t going to believe, this one is internet related.
Oh my god…