A button on your TV remote that automatically fast forwards through the adverts and stops just at the right place, when watching recorded TV programs.
Surely it can't be that difficult?
I realise that Sky won't want to do this as they get revenue from the ad makers, but maybe someone can come up with an separate aftermarket
remote that can do this?
Some channels have a 'fixed' time of commercials, but it's not the same between different channels iyswim. My remote allows me to skip
10s, 60s or 5m with one button press. For instance the F1 on C4 now takes 4x the 60s button to go exactly from the beginning to the end of the
commercials...
But yeah, wouldn't it be nice...
You still watch live TV ---- thesedays we rarely do and when we do it is usually the Beeb.
Last night watched Bridge of Spies ---- absolutely brilliant.
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Originally posted by britishtrident
You still watch live TV ---- thesedays we rarely do and when we do it is usually the Beeb.
Yes, it is a pain, but at least you can fast forward through them when they're recorded. If you can watch on catch-up (virgin media), no ads.
Revenue is the key to this - as long as there's revenue to be made then why would they let you skip them.
Adverts for sh1te I don't want annoy me at the best of times - I find riding my turbo trainer in the garage with Spotify playing a far better
option. I will admit to subscribing at £10/month to get add free Spotify, but £120.00/year seems reasonable to me given I used to spend more than
that on CDs.
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Originally posted by Slater
A button on your TV remote that automatically fast forwards through the adverts and stops just at the right place, when watching recorded TV programs.
Surely it can't be that difficult?
First world problems
I want a setting on the TV that mutes the ads automatically. Why do the have to be twice as loud as the program they are in the middle of?
They're allowed to be as loud as the loudest bit in the program, and I reckon the show makers put in one loud bite just for this prpose.
[Edited on 12/5/16 by Neville Jones]
About 12 years ago I actually had a panasonic that could do that if you edited the the recorded program, but the feature was removed (I believe there is some signal embedded that says when the ads start and stop), but the automatic 'remove ads' would still leave a few seconds of them at the start and end of each break. It seemed to disappear for the next version, I suspect a lot of pressure was put on them by the TV companies - I can imagine the firms paying for adverts were pretty unhappy that they could be easily removed, and the TV companies could just refuse to air panasonic ads themselves.
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Originally posted by Neville Jones
I want a setting on the TV that mutes the ads automatically. Why do the have to be twice as loud as the program they are in the middle of? They're allowed to be as loud as the loudest bit in the program, and I reckon the show makers put in one loud bite just for this prpose.
[Edited on 12/5/16 by Neville Jones]
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Originally posted by nick205
Revenue is the key to this - as long as there's revenue to be made then why would they let you skip them.
Adverts for sh1te I don't want annoy me at the best of times - I find riding my turbo trainer in the garage with Spotify playing a far better option. I will admit to subscribing at £10/month to get add free Spotify, but £120.00/year seems reasonable to me given I used to spend more than that on CDs.
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Originally posted by MikeRJ
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Originally posted by Slater
A button on your TV remote that automatically fast forwards through the adverts and stops just at the right place, when watching recorded TV programs.
Surely it can't be that difficult?
If it's difficult for a human to do then it will be even more difficult to automate it. Problem is that they keep changing the screen that gets shown before the next section starts, and on some channels they don't show a lead in screen at all, it's just adverts then straight into your program.
I find the adverts are better than the actual programmes.....
Some of the 'cheap channels' are getting really bad for ads - I see something listed that may be interesting, select the channel and then
watch ads for the next 5 or more minutes. By the end I can't remember what it was I was planning to watch. This is on channels like Yesterday.
Sometimes an ad break comes up so I decide to make a coffee - this is the full cafetiere experience - and the ads are still running when I get back in
front of the TV.
Also, the programmes are getting hacked about. My wife has always liked watching Ground Force; on the BBC this used to be a 1 hour programme, but on
the Home channel it's been cut to fit a 30-minute slot, and that's including about 10 minutes of ads. So a 55-minute show has been cut to
about 20 minutes - no wonder it doesn't hang together at all.
As you may guess - I hate adverts...