I really liked the commercial advance feature, I believe the networks had the spots marked so that the local station could insert the local ads. I wonder if this will still work with the new digital broadcasting? Rob
On 3 Feb 2009 at 11:23, Brian Hartsfield wrote: > 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] > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
