Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!

George Kerby wrote:
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> On 6/22/08 11:59 AM, in article
> O4Wdna-tnuJwGcPVnZ2dnUVZ_jadnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 "George"
> <george@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> EskWIRED@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>>> In alt.cellular.verizon Larry <noone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> EskWIRED@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote in
news:g3kek1$hn8$2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>> In alt.cellular.verizon Larry <noone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>>>> I believe in response to heavy pressure from the advertisers, cable
>>>>>> company tivo equipment is already hobbled to prevent ad bypassing.
>>>>>> Users must get their own unhobbled units....just like SELLPHONES!
>>>>> Wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I guess you are right and all these guys are crazy:
>>> I didn't look at the cites.  Instead, I glanced over my shoulder at
>>> my brand-new, fresh from the cable company DVR.  It allows skipping
>>> forward and back, and you can set the time interval from ten seconds
to a
>>> few minutes for each.  I set the Forward for 30 seconds, and the back
for
>>> 10.  The feature is designed specifically to zap commercials.
>> Actually that feature is designed to skip back and forth by whatever
>> increment you set. Commercial skipping is a different thing. I have a
>> DVR I built that uses opensource software and it runs a commercial
>> detection job after the recording and makes a table of jump points. You
>> can program it to edit out the commercials by itself or just hit a
>> button on the remote which skips over the commercial whether it is 11
>> seconds or 4 minutes 11 seconds long.
>>
> 
> ReplayTV? It runs circles around TIVO. Too bad it was bought by DirecTV
and
> shelved.
> 

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