[plug] Re: [OT] Television

[Lawrie Abbott]

senectus wrote:

>MythTV has this sort of feature, but it has flaws.. ie a friend of mine has
>a mythtv setup, and he was recording an episode of "west wing" where there
>were "blackouts" in the story line.. Unfortunately the myth TV though that
>every time there was a blackout in the show, it was the beginning of an
>advert.. and so stopped recording till it came back on..
>
>  
>
I wonder how it can tell the difference between an advert and the 'show' 
at all?  As far as I am aware there is no difference in the tranmitted 
signal although adverts _usually_ are louder (overall) and the colors 
are much more saturated. But automatic detection of adverts based on 
these qualities would be extremely unreliable.

Lawrie