From: Mike Bailey <bailey@computek.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 95 20:17:52 PDT
To: WOOD@VAX2.ROCKHURST.EDU
Subject: Re: commerical busters
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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
> > 
> > - --
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > $$$$ $$$$$ $$$$
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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

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