Slater
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posted on 12/5/16 at 07:27 AM |
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When will someone invent......
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?
Why do they call Port Harcourt "The Garden City"?...... Becauase they can't spell Stramash.
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Quinten
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posted on 12/5/16 at 07:45 AM |
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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...
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britishtrident
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posted on 12/5/16 at 07:51 AM |
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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.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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loggyboy
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posted on 12/5/16 at 07:54 AM |
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quote: Originally posted by britishtrident
You still watch live TV ---- thesedays we rarely do and when we do it is usually the Beeb.
Obviously he isnt or he wouldnt be able to fast forward the ads.
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Smoking Frog
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posted on 12/5/16 at 08:02 AM |
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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.
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nick205
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posted on 12/5/16 at 08:04 AM |
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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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MikeRJ
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posted on 12/5/16 at 08:04 AM |
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quote: 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.
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gaz_gaz
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posted on 12/5/16 at 09:20 AM |
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First world problems
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Neville Jones
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posted on 12/5/16 at 09:22 AM |
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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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hughpinder
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posted on 12/5/16 at 09:51 AM |
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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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Slimy38
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posted on 12/5/16 at 09:52 AM |
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quote: 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]
You can complain about this to the authority, they do listen. I complained about advert volume on Syfy, they responded in 48 hours with a series of
questions which were fairly simply to answer. Mainly around highlighting a particular example at a particular time and day (wasn't difficult!).
About a week later we noticed a drop in volume.
This is a very old story relating to it;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7388473.stm
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Ugg10
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posted on 12/5/16 at 10:55 AM |
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quote: 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.
Spotify - Big Thumbs Up
Been a user since it was launched and it just gets better each update, must admit I am a cheapskate and do not subscribe but my son does under the 1/2
price student deal with NUS as he uses the "Walkman" offline feature a lot. Love the new weekly discover feature and have found many new
bands and even gone to see a couple, also like the fact that I can bone up on bands before I go and see them, even obscure or new support bands. If
you like your Djent/new or prog Metal I found and have been to see Coldrain, Monuments, No Consequence and While She Sleeps recently as a consequence
of Spotify browsing.
As for the recording, IIRC the old VHS systems used the little black and white striped box in the top right corner that is used by the local ITV
companies to deliver local ads and appears a minute or so before the adds come on. As has already said, not beyond the wit of man but commercial
pressure will outweigh this.
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SteveWalker
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posted on 12/5/16 at 11:41 AM |
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quote: Originally posted by MikeRJ
quote: 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.
It's actually very easy to automate for most channels. They virtually all display a channel logo in one corner. A simple bit of software can
look for a fixed image to detect the logo and then monitor it. Every time it disappears, the ads are on. As soon as it re-appears, the programme is
back on. There was a circuit and software to do this in one of the electronics mags some years back.
There was also a commercial VHS recorder in the USA that did something similar. The TV companies tried to get it banned, but I don't think they
succeeded.
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fossett
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posted on 12/5/16 at 11:42 AM |
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TiVo SkipMode
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owelly
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posted on 12/5/16 at 02:11 PM |
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I find the adverts are better than the actual programmes.....
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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David Jenkins
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posted on 12/5/16 at 02:54 PM |
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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...
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