"J. van Baardwijk" wrote:
>
> At 19:53 30-12-01 +0000, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>
> >Are those people aware that this technology *will* be used *exactly*
> >for the opposite reason?
> >
> >As soon as TV shows etc are forced to broadcast some flags
> >saying "here begins sex/nudity" or "here begins violence",
> >kids will hack their parent's TV to jump through *all* channels
> >*until* it finds something that is interesting?
>
> The only flags I would be interested in are "Begin of Commercial Break" and
> "End of Commercial Break". I will then buy a VCR that can interpret those
> signals (and automatically fast-forward to the "EoCB" when it finds a
> "BoCB") and tape everything I want to see. It will make watching movies on
> TV so much more entertaining (not to mention time-efficient). :-)
We have one of those. It works fairly well most of the time.
Occasionally it doesn't read BoCB right. On one occasion, in a B5
episode, it thought that it detected a BoCB when there shouldn't have
been. That made for some fun. :P
It marks the commercial blocks after recording. When it finishes
recording, if it's on the timer, it automatically starts going through
to mark the commercials. If it's been taping with realtime input, it
asks after you hit Stop if you want to mark the commercials now, mark
the commercials later, or not mark them at all. Usually we have it mark
them right then....
Julia
