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Muting the TV during advertisements used to be enough to quiet the god-awful din, but now modern ads flash the screen so hard it still grabs all the attention in the room. How about a TV mute function that dims the screen to 50% (or whatever)?
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I think you could easily bake this with a Harmony remote. |
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Most TVs have a button marked <power> which does that. |
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Alternatively there is a housebrick. |
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I don't see a power button anywhere on mine. There is this
weird little 1/0 button though. |
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My flatscreen TV uses LED illumination and when I first
set
it up I set the default brightness at 50%, and haven't
changed it since. On my CCF* computer screens
(haven't
updated them in years) I set the default brightness to
Zero,
and almost never encounter an image or video so dark
that
I need to adjust it. I'm expecting the respective light-
sources to last lots longer than if I kept them at (or
near)
max brightness all the time. |
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*Cold Cathode Fluorescent, common before more-
efficient and longer-lasting and much-lighter-weight
LED
lighting came along |
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Actions should be to mute the sound, dim the image, but also minimise the image to a 1:16 "PIP" window. [+] |
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Or to activate a motorised turntable that rotates the set to face the wall? |
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I liked the think that lowered the volume on commercials. |
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Make it go out of focus too. I don't know why, just do
it. |
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