On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 04:00:19PM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote: > 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....
I've got an RCA VCR that has this technology. It looks for "blank" (usu. black) spaces of a frame or two separated by a multiple of 15 sec or 30 sec (I can't remember which). It assumes those are commercials. Sometimes it gets confused by a SF program which has a couple dark scenes (space?) separated unfortuitously by a commercial-sized chunk of time. I keep mine on manual mode, so when the commercial starts, I hit the skip commercial button. Then I can hit stop and rewind a little if it goes too far. It seems to get it right about 90% of the time on some programs I watch, and only about 50% on other programs. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.com/
