a.) every instance of the show puts the commercials in the same place b.) the same show airing on different channels have the commercials in the same place (SkyONE has radically different commercial placement than, say, the sciFI channel). c.) the commercials are the same length (could be gotten around by looking at content on either side of commercials).
This is pretty standard -- shows are edited such that there are commercial breaks in certain places. However, it does NOT account for the commercial breaks being the same length in each region (remember, commercials are regional things).
Also, don't forget that some people record before/after shows, and myth is never 100% accurate in the time you give it (I'm set to record an additional 2.5 minutes on each show, and my recordings are anywhere from 1.5 to 3.5 minutes longer than the show runs)
And how would you pick which commercial flags to use? My flagging is rather inaccurate on about half of my shows, and I go in and clean up ALL of my shows (almost every flag needs to be moved at least a few frames one direction or another). Importing a flag list is useless to me if no one else shares my desire for perfect commercial cutting.
As for whether users "want" it or not -- that's easy, you just add a flag (default to off) for auto-sending/getting, and/or make it a manual choice -- just like "transcode" is now.
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