Phillips: We Hate our customers
Today information came out about a new patent that Phillips has filed for which would prevent you from changing the channel during a commercial and from fast forwarding during a recorded show.
The process would involve the broadcast flag that Television and Hollywood Exec’s are all wet in the pants about and does more to strip your rights as a consumer than anything else.
Philips is trying to patent a method for flagging digital TV content to not only prevent viewers from changing the channel during commercials in live broadcasts, but to actually lock out fast-forwarding capabilities during ads in recorded programs as well. Even worse, the patent specifically applies to the already widely-deployed Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) middleware system standard,
More on the Phillips Customer Hating at Engadget
If you’re anything like me you won’t be buying a Phillips product again even if they don’t implement this.
Josh Smith is a blogger, database manager and adjunct professor of business and technology. 
