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SmartVCR
A VCR that edits out commercials. | |
By detecting differences between television shows and commercials, the SmartVCR can pause its recording to edit out advertisements. Early models will detect differences in volume, certain catch phrases, flashing telephone numbers that don't start with 555, and lack of laughter. You can adjust settings
so you can catch your favorite commercials for movies and whatnot (I happen to like Jack in the Box ads, myself).
Panasonic VCR
http://www.panasoni...onics/video/vhs.htm
A Panasonic VCR which will skip recorded commercials. [tomierna, Mar 21 2000, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Commercial Advance Tech
http://www.adlenter...s.com/comm_ad2.html
Technology touted by Arthur Little that probably senses DTMF's [tomierna, Mar 21 2000, last modified Oct 05 2004]
XMLTV
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/XMLTV
Television Content Markup Language [jimfl, Mar 21 2000, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Tivo commercial for editing out commercials
http://www.adcritic...tent/tivo-golf.html
[jutta, Mar 21 2000]
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Most networks broadcast either DTMF tones or vertical blanking interval data in the signal to allow local stations to insert local advertising. |
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Several companies offer VCR's that will look for these codes post-recording and skip ads for you. |
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A real SmartVCR would play only the commercials you are interested in.
(Don't say that there aren't some... I am constantly being asked "Did you see the XYZ commercial? You gotta see it!") |
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The correct approach, however, is probably to make the content smart, not the devices. XMLTV! |
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That'd NEVER happen. They pay all this money to get their commercials on, but rig them so you can easily avoid them? Or do you mean tailored to what you're watching? Don't like the privacy invasions as it is, wouldn't want more... |
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I tried turning up the brightness of my television, but it didn't work! |
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Another approach to detecting commercials (after the fact) is to detect blank video frames spaced 30 or 60 seconds apart. A company I worked for considered building this feature into their product, but decided against due to possible legal issues. |
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A shame...I'd have bought one... |
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Yet another way to detect commercials is to broadcast
signals somewhere on the near forgotten
radio-frequencies that nobody wants because of their bad
quality. Longwave, shortwave, I don't even know what
they are called. Not FM at least. Special add-on hardware
can pick these signals up with a little antenna. The
vendor of this hardware employs a bunch of tv-viewers
that push buttons when commercials/station calls end or
start. Would also be great for radio. When commercials or
stationcalls are detected the device switches to a build in
MP3 player with some of your favourite songs. Or
temporarily to another channel without commercials. To
prevent lawsuits from the networks the company should
be off-shore. I am not a lawyer, but what could legally be
against such a device? |
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Interesting question. Could the advertising tags be seen as derived work? |
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Nobody's stepped on Web ad filters
yet (but they're not widely used).
On the other hand, people are
suing MAPS. We'll have to see how
that turns out... |
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Imagine the problems you would have advertising these services... |
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None whatsoever. (See the linked Tivo TV ad.) For once in your life, you're reaching *exactly* the people who need your services. |
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Baked. My Panasonic has Comercial Advance and well as Movie Advance. Movie Advance fastforwards the tape to the beginning of the movie. |
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What navel-gazing generation would choose to archive /
collect bad commercials? |
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