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| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 05-24-2001 @ 5:49 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00  | Now this might not seem a lot but if you think about editing footage and passing it off as original, we're headed into a dangerous place. Thursday May 24 03:35 PM EDT "Law & Order" Getting Virtual Ads? (The following Law & Order story was brought to you by Target. For all your fashion needs. That's Target.) Having trouble avoiding ads lately? Get used to it: Starting June 5, reruns of Law & Order on TNT may include computer-generated advertisements embedded inside the show. Thanks to the wonders of virtual product placement, Detective Briscoe's coffee mug could become ripe real estate for Madison Avenue. And soon, the crime drama could become home to a new crop of make-believe signs and soda cans, marking the first time the technology has been used on a scripted TV series. Both TNT and the creators of the technology, New Jersey-based Princeton Video Image, confirm to Advertising Age magazine that the plan is moving forward. The cable network, which struck a 10-year deal for the long-running NBC series, is planning to air Law & Order reruns twice a night starting next month. But the show's producers, Dick Wolf and Studios USA, insist that no agreement has been signed. "It is by no means a done deal," says Neil Schubert, spokesman for Studios USA. "There have been discussions in the past, but there's no deal existing right now." Product placement is nothing new--brand names can be seen plastered all over films and TV shows. Last year, Coca-Cola spent $6 million to place its logo prominently throughout the WB's short-lived series Young Americans. And Survivor featured unavoidably cheesy references to Bud Light, Target, Doritos and the Pontiac Aztek. The same type of product plugs will be used for ABC's reality game show, The Runner. Just this week, the season finale of ABC's Dharma & Greg even used its own script to promote makeup giant Maybelline. As part of a cross-branding sweepstakes, Dharma viewers were encouraged to find out which character muttered the company's slogan, "Maybe she's born with it." No series, however, has ever included virtual product placement--which could make it possible for logos to change with every rerun, and make syndication that much more lucrative. Hard to imagine, but the logos on Law & Order could change more times than, well, the cast members on Law & Order. Still, the prospect already has watchdogs nervous. "It's all part of the same thing, potentially manipulating audiences [through] potentially deceptive marketing practices," Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, tells The New York Times. For its part, Princeton Video Image insists it won't do anything extreme with the technology--like, say, pasting American Express banners on Jack McCoy's forehead. "We're going to be doing it on a controlled test basis, to get the logistics down and make sure it can be done organically and seamlessly," Princeton Video v.p. Paul Slagle tells the Times. "We've all agreed going forward it's only a bad idea if we do it in a nonorganic way." "Organic," of course, is all relative. With gadgets like TiVo now growing in popularity, advertisers are feverishly searching for new ways to prevent viewers from fast-forwarding through their spots. Virtual product placement is commonly used during televised sporting events--whether it's the banner ads behind home plate during a Major League baseball game, or logos digitally pasted onto sidewalks. The technology was briefly tested in prime-time in 1999, when images for Coca-Cola, Kenneth Cole, Evian and Wells Fargo were dropped into scenes of the UPN series, Seven Days. A Princeton Video subsidiary also reportedly used the virtual ads successfully for a Mexican soap opera. According to Advertising Age, the company previously pursued a deal to place virtual ads in reruns of Friends and The Drew Carey Show, but it eventually fell through.  Eliza Dushku- Hotter Than Britney Read my column at Foundry Or go to my O&A sound site | ||||
This status is sponsored by: P®oJë©T M@¥hέm I Mod VG's ass! | posted on 05-24-2001 @ 5:54 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | To borrow a line from Mike Muir of Suicidal Tendencies... "They're Fucking with me Subliminally" Professional Slacker Currently in need of psychiatric help | ||||
| Tequila Fez claims this land in the name of Portugal! Why worry about the train if it never makes it around the tracks?? IrishAlkey wuz here!!! | posted on 05-24-2001 @ 5:54 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Jan. 01 | Thats going to suck. Thats is a great show AOL - oanda1027fm | ||||
| adolescentmasturbator | posted on 05-24-2001 @ 6:00 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | quote: Anyone else find irony in that?  Resident Board Socialist Email me at sticksituation22@yahoo.com or pinkorag@yahoo.com IM me at stickysituation2 or pinkorag Now accepting newbies for the Comintern | ||||
| Sephiroth | posted on 05-24-2001 @ 6:08 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | Will the target logo be on the back of the Victim's skull? "Murder one inborn into your every cell It's in your blood and you can't shake it Because you were bred to take it Next stop annihilation They bred the hate right in your bones" -The Misfits Have any anime questions? Send me a E-mail or IM me at AIM:Hitokiri182 I have adopted jerichoholic1 and Daisy NJ as my newbies. Dont ask me how I adopted her, the Gods must be smiling upon me. :) | ||||
| geedagreek | posted on 05-24-2001 @ 6:13 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00 | god if that isnt life imitating art...doesnt this remind anybody of "the truman show"?? "DO you know what a love letter is?...It's a bullet from a FUCKING GUN...staight through your heart....." Jesse Jones, Yuppicide | ||||
I Need An Old Priest And A Young Priest | posted on 05-24-2001 @ 7:13 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | IkeaBoy what is the percentage of your post's that are news articles? I am estimating it at 75-82%. Adopted Newbie Within the Protected Big Arms: Jesus H Christ Officially Part of JWO: skitchr4u & JasonFromRiverEdge | ||||
| King f-tard | posted on 05-25-2001 @ 9:42 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Feb. 01 | Joey, take the ones that make sense or mean sonething and that percentage drops down quite a bit. lol.. | ||||
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