NHK more than doubles viewership by watching their viewers

[Taro Toporific]

[color="DimGray"]Somehow it's like the old punchline "...in the Soviet Union, TV watches you" becomes true in Japan.[/color]

[SIZE="3"]TV Makes Recommendations Based On Viewer Interest[/SIZE]
---NHK brings new ways for browsing channels and TV content intuitively and automatically with user feedback and facial recognition---
Trendpool.com | Dec 13, 2011
NHK Science Technology Research Laboratories has developed a new kind of television technology and experience where a TV presents programs or information displays adjusted to how people are viewing the screen. Though it stops short of reading our minds, it has the potential to read our faces to check how engaged we appear...more...

[dimwit]

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Has to be my my top five photoshopped images of the year.

[gaijinpunch]

Haha -- that's fucking classic!

[wagyl]

At the risk of sending this thread in an entirely different direction, I still don't understand why this broadcaster uses licence fees to develop hardware systems which results in Japan-only standards which ultimately supports the local manufacturers by creating a domestic-only market and discouraging foreign entry. This has never been an appropriate use of licence fees, especially as the local manufacturers have shown themselves perfectly capable of colluding and creating a galapagos market in other products all by themselves. This is a completely different issue to the one of NHK using licence fees to produce programming which is almost indistinguishable from the commercial broadcasters./rant

[Coligny]

At the risk of sending this thread in an entirely different direction, I still don't understand why this broadcaster uses licence fees to develop hardware systems which results in Japan-only standards which ultimately supports the local manufacturers by creating a domestic-only market and discouraging foreign entry.

Great, you fail as badly as me at kapitalizm... sleepover anytime ? I have a colorized Karaoke versions of the Battleship Potemkim...

[matsuki]

At the risk of sending this thread in an entirely different direction, I still don't understand why this broadcaster uses licence fees to develop hardware systems which results in Japan-only standards which ultimately supports the local manufacturers by creating a domestic-only market and discouraging foreign entry. This has never been an appropriate use of licence fees, especially as the local manufacturers have shown themselves perfectly capable of colluding and creating a galapagos market in other products all by themselves. This is a completely different issue to the one of NHK using licence fees to produce programming which is almost indistinguishable from the commercial broadcasters./rant

Because TIJ, forever in a state of Galapagos. Us FG are merely alien species.

At least they're up front about it?

[plaid_knight]

I have a way to make television show videos and programs
directly related to the user's requests and interests:
Youtube, hulu, and the p***tebay.

[IparryU]

I have a way to make television show videos and programs
directly related to the user's requests and interests:
Youtube, hulu, and the p***tebay.

Me likes this

[Coligny]

Me likes this

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run for cover...

[IparryU]

continue the sausage fest!
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[Taro Toporific]

continue the sausage fest!

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[color="Gray"](Also original video of Techno Viking)[/color]