From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 95 19:10:02 PDT
To: tcmay@sensemedia.net (Timothy C. May)
Subject: Re: Commercial killers
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| Harry Bartholomew was telling me a year or so ago about some ideas for
| detecting volume changes. I think, however, the problem of distinguishing
| commercial from non-commercial signal is, I think, a tough one.

	Yes, but the tv stations put in a short period of black &
silence before returning to the show.  I'm pretty confident that this
is what the 'zip through commercials' vcrs cue on.


Adam

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