On Tue, 1 Aug 1995 WOOD@VAX2.ROCKHURST.EDU wrote:
ON: 31-JUL-1995 20:14:46.10, dan@netmarket.com wrote:
At 8:50 PM 07/31/95, Patrick May wrote:
My dim memories from a project I did for Sony a couple of years ago are that commercials are separated by a fixed number of black frames and some, at least, have tracking information encoded so that advertisers can monitor how often they are played. I'll try to dig up more info.
From: dfitzpat@interserv.com Wednesday July 26, 1995 -- ShopTalk
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NEW VCRs TAKE ON COMMERCIALS POINT-BLANK
By Jonathan Takiff Philadelphia Daily News Staff Writer
Already besieged by Washington politicians over the content of TV programming (and threats of a show-blocking chip), television broadcasters are about to be hit with another whammy. This time it's VCRs that automatically blank out commercials.
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dan
I believe that they did something like this in Japan several years ago ... I believe they sensed changes in the power output of the audio and also looks for changes in the color outputs. The last I read on said they had limited sucess with their methods. -Mike ************************************************************************** * Mike Bailey (hm)214-252-3915 * * AT&T Capital Corporation. (wk)214-456-4510 * * email bailey@computek.net host bambam.computek.net * * "Remember you can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish -Joe Walsh" * * http://www.computek.net/public/bailey * **************************************************************************