Erik Reuter schreef: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:12:29PM +0100, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: > > That system would prabably not work well over here. Now a days on some > > channels they skip _any_ form of separation between CB and movie. > > Are you sure? For NTSC, I think that a frame is 1/60 of a sec and a > field is 1/30 of a sec (NTSC is interlaced). It is hard to tell if a > single blank field is there or not. > > I'm not sure what it is for PAL, but probably about the same.
Well the blank could of course be there. I didn't realise that they can manage 1/60 of a sec. So that is a possibillity. With some movies there were instances were we were totally confused about the continuity in a scene, only to realise a few seconds later that we were looking at commercials instead of movie. Passage from one to the other looked absolutely seameless. I'm not sure if a signal for begin and end of commercials is provided, but (considering the stupidity of most commercials) it would be absolutely devine to kill all of them at the touch of a button. :o) Time for a new video recorder perhaps. I'm sure a retailer can tell us what system would work... Even though, I'm not sure that such systems are currently available in the EU. I seem to remember something about a story where videorecorders (with abillity to recognise commercials) had to be taken off the EU market after a court case by RTL (major commercial station with reception in all of the EU) or somesuch. Sonja
