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Video Appears in Paper Magazines

The first-ever video advertisement will be published in a traditional paper magazine in September.

The video-in-print ads will appear in select copies of the US show business title Entertainment Weekly.

The slim-line screens - around the size of a mobile phone display - also have rechargeable batteries.

The chip technology used to store the video - described as similar to that used in singing greeting cards - is activated when the page is turned.

Each chip can hold up to 40 minutes of video.

The first clips will preview programmes from US TV network CBS and show adverts by the drinks company Pepsi.

They will appear in 18 September editions of the magazine distributed in Los Angeles and New York.

It's believed the new technology will cost much more than normal print ads.

However, BBC correspondent Rajesh Mirchandani said that in an increasingly competitive market, advertisers have realized that it is more important than ever to create attention for their product.

He likened the technology to the Daily Prophet - a newspaper with moving pictures described in the Harry Potter books.

It is not the first time that publishers have experimented with digital technology in magazines.

Last year, for example, men's lifestyle magazine Esquire published the first using e-ink technology, with a cover that flashed in alternating patterns.

E-ink is the technology used in the Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle electronic books.

Americhip, the developer of video-in-print, has also created magazine technology that appeals to various senses, including smell.

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PizzaBoi : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

PizzaBoi

46 votes NegativePositive

95 days 13 hours ago...

"It`s believed the new technology will cost much more than normal print ads."

Hmm...nah. You`re lying.

mufasa1023 : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

mufasa1023

10 votes NegativePositive

95 days 11 hours ago...

"video-in-print ads"

i`m going to feel great pleasure in ripping an expensive ad out of the magazine without watching it...

Cahu : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

Cahu

13 votes NegativePositive

95 days 11 hours ago...

This is the kind of thing you think is cool in movies, and then its not so cool irl

choreboy : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

choreboy

3 votes NegativePositive

95 days 10 hours ago...

well.... why not offer the whole magazine as one page, then constantly have different banner adds popping up everywhere, cheaper in the long run for them.

i haven`t bought a magazine in about 3 years thanks to the internet. i think they should just give up, and focus more on their website.

Violetninja420 : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

Violetninja420

1 votes NegativePositive

95 days 10 hours ago...

"The video-in-print ads will appear in select copies of the US show business title Entertainment Weekly...."

Annnd I lost interest.

When does entertainment weekly put dvd discs in their magazine? Never. This sort of thing is more for porn, or at least gamer magazines. Where they actually include video demo discs in publications on occasion. And not entertainment news cuz thats all television is anymore.

Commander Fluffy : LVL 30: VP 3.9: said:

Commander Fluffy

-7 votes NegativePositive

95 days 9 hours ago...

people are starving and jobless in america and business decide to spend money on this shit? sometimes i`m embarrassed to live in the US.

selfworm : LVL 44: VP 5: said:

selfworm

2 votes NegativePositive

95 days 7 hours ago...

Great, now people can read a magazine without even knowing how to read!!

R10 : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

R10

-3 votes NegativePositive

95 days 4 hours ago...

@ Cahu

You are absolutely right. But you lose cool points due to the fact that you used "irl" in your comment.

thundersalmon : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

thundersalmon

-2 votes NegativePositive

95 days 2 hours ago...

^^ I agree with selfworm.
illiteracy is a major problem in the US. if "advances" in reading remove a person from even casual reading,like magazines, we are compounding the problem with people who would normally rarely read anyways.

hell_viper1 : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

hell_viper1

2 votes NegativePositive

95 days ago...

What happens when people start trying to recycle these magazines? I wonder what paper mulchers think of electronics.

Wonfis : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

Wonfis

0 votes NegativePositive

94 days 18 hours ago...

Are these screens proof against water? Or blood, or sweat, or tears, or.... Everybody here knows there`s a massive magazine market out there that would love video.

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