Britain’s Independent Television Commission has upheld a complaint from a
viewer who suffered a seizure while watching an advertisement for a fitness
exerciser that contained rapidly flashing images. The ITC’s rules ban any strobe
effect that flashes more than three times a second because it can trigger
photosensitive epilepsy. The satellite games channel Challenge TV transmitted an
advert for the AB Isolator in which images flashed at a rate of eight times per
second.
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