On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, K Street wrote:
> Ronn Blankenship wrote:
> > Which is another point in favor of taping the show and watching the
> > tape: fast-forwarding through the commercials. (Though I must admit that
> > having to hit the FF button every 5 minutes gets pretty annoying, too.)
>
>
> I've got a VCR that does that automatically. It marks the half-second
> or so of blackness that comes just before and after commericals. But
> sometimes it gets fooled by really dim scenes and goes by them too.
> Law and Order used to be a pain because of all their fades to black,
> but they changed the format and it's not a problem now.
Ours is marking the title sequence for B5 as "commercial" sometimes, but
not all the time. We haven't figured out just what is triggering it, but
we can live with it right now.
On the regular half-hour or hour TV shows, the commercial breaks are
reasonably predictable. The worst pain I ever had in the fast-forwarding
department was a football game.
Julia
