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Re:How Did Elevators Lose Their Music? by cube00 on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:03PM (#32364121)
Office buildings near me have them, they try to make them appear as "infotainment" to quote Otis in the article.

A news headline and then ads for everything from food to cars to podcasts. Another headline, more ads.

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Re:How Did Elevators Lose Their Music? by function_seven on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:08PM (#32364137)
Oh my god I forgot about that. Yeah, the high-rise my old company was in had those as well. A cheery, "Here's what's happening in the world" with some quick headlines, then an ad for Jimmy Fallon or something.

We were on the 45th floor, so there was plenty of captive time.

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Re:How Did Elevators Lose Their Music? by hammock on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:24PM (#32364233)
> We were on the 45th floor, so there was plenty of captive time.

The biggest company that puts the TVs in elevators is literally called “Captivate.”

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Re:How Did Elevators Lose Their Music? by euroderf on Saturday August 06, 2022 @04:16AM (#32366082)
Helsinki city transit does that, and there's zero attempt at sync. So an interesting headline pops up, and then maybe about 500ms in it cuts to a wildly animated ad for some crap or another. So it's not just irritating, it is aggressively obnoxious. You wanted to read this story ? HAH HAH, sucker!
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