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DirecTV does not do this crap. If they ever decide to, they will lose a customer forever. I refuse to put up with ads being shoved into your face on a guide. That is one of the major reasons I bought a DVR. To get away from ads. I can wait a few hours to watch a show. No skin off my nose. But, it is nearly impossible to get away from ads completely. Real products are showing up in the shows on TV.

Grand times we live in, huh.

I mean, look at the advertising whore that Engadget is. They will not deny it either.]]>Apr 9th 2009 12:28PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/09/targeted-ads-coming-soon-to-cable-tv/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/09/targeted-ads-coming-soon-to-cable-tv/
I had Insight Cable and then Comcast, and they've been using the same ugly, crappy interface for years. It looks like a throwback to 1993. It doesn't even let you choose which channels to display in your guide. You can flag channels as favorites, but when you push the guide button, it shows ALL of the channels, even the raunchy adult programming that you don't subscribe to. Not exactly family friendly. It requires additional button presses to get to your list of favorite channels. That is the main reason I left cable.

But seriously, they can't even update the EPG to fill a 16x9 screen! The most widely used DVR in the world, and they don't even bother giving it a facelift after all these years.]]>Apr 9th 2009 12:32PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/09/targeted-ads-coming-soon-to-cable-tv/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/09/targeted-ads-coming-soon-to-cable-tv/
Chance Stevens
Editor, http://www.tvlampsnbulbs.com]]>Apr 9th 2009 12:42PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/09/targeted-ads-coming-soon-to-cable-tv/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/09/targeted-ads-coming-soon-to-cable-tv/monetized, just maybe not that well given Tivo's shaky financial ground.]]>Apr 9th 2009 4:10PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/09/targeted-ads-coming-soon-to-cable-tv/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/09/targeted-ads-coming-soon-to-cable-tv/Apr 11th 2009 12:51PM