I remember having a VCR one thing that did attempt to handle commercials, but I think they got sued. They took the idea that during commercials you have a full black screen at 30-60 seconds intervals and that is uncommon during shows so it would record the show then go back through the tape and mark the black screens and then when you watched it later it would auto-FF through the commercials. It actually worked pretty well for most things. Biggest problems were shows that were dark like X-Files and sometimes it would get confused between the "dark and stormy night" and the commercials however overall I was very pleased with it. It is a shame that political realities make it impossible to do stuff like that. Even TiVo has to "hide" the 30-second skip button to avoid problems. -- Brian Hartsfield CCNA, CCDA AIM: kd4aej Twitter: Krandor1 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=705369381 Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianhartsfield
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:48 AM, tomsalwasser <[email protected]>wrote: > I hear you Brian. What's technically simple may be politically > impossible. In the mean time I'll have to take your advice to add > some time to my timers after sporting events. > > I hope I can get the office on hulu. Thanks Glen! > > --- In [email protected], Brian Hartsfield <b...@...> wrote: > > > > I doubt you will see that anytime soon. The broadcast industry > has no good > > reason to try to help DVRs. in fact, they go out of their way > many times to > > try to mess them up. I remember when I tried to record the pilot > for lie to > > me, they had it starting at 9:03 running for an hour and 3 minutes > and so it > > overlapped with some of the 10pm shows... and i really think one > reason for > > that was so that things were not easy for DVRs. > > -- > > Brian Hartsfield CCNA, CCDA > > AIM: kd4aej Twitter: Krandor1 > > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=705369381 > > Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianhartsfield > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
