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Enter your entertainment selections for the evening and the TV starts showing the downloaded or streamed shows, interleaved: switching from current to next program at the end of a scene.
For newcomers to the sport, set the A.D.D. dial to a lower setting for longer segments.
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Will it avoid most of the advertisements? If it knew when the adds would be shown, it could playback other stuff prerecorded from another channel. |
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Some channels I might want to kill forever like say a channel that only shows surfing movies. |
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Isn't this already doable with current gadgetry? |
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It's a bit futuristic, granted : today's TV network broadcasts embed break notifications in the stream for affiliates to time their own commercials properly. |
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But, at the network, or when a station does its own broadcast, say of a movie, there's a person who runs through the tape first, marking out breakpoints and inserting commercials. |
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This presupposes that a program has had all its breakpoints (storyline, not just commercials) digitally mapped out. |
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[pop] The idea's for a cable provider or streaming site's "virtual channel", so commercials wouldn't get filtered out, but there could be some leeway in their presentation as well: f'rinstance single commercials every few minutes, or a whole bunch every hour'ish. |
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When I saw the title of this Idea, I had two interpretations.
One was about a channel devoted to the sport of surfing
various water waves (probably exists somewhere). The
other was a channel that automatically displayed all the
other channels, say 1 minute for each before switching
channels. |
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It's nice to see that the actual Idea was different from both
of those. Good show! |
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