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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Great Rumbler on February 21, 2010, 08:34:48 PM

Title: Why hasn't anyone developed Ad-Block for the TV?
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 21, 2010, 08:34:48 PM

Because I would immediately block those e-trade commercials with the talking babies and whichever commercial it is that plays "All You Need is Love" that I hear a thousand times a day.

Title: Re: Why hasn't anyone developed Ad-Block for the TV?
Post by: Diunx on February 21, 2010, 08:58:22 PM

Its called torrents.

Title: Re: Why hasn't anyone developed Ad-Block for the TV?
Post by: brawndolicious on February 21, 2010, 09:06:17 PM

If I'm watching TV live, I always just change the channel or mute it during commercials.

Title: Re: Why hasn't anyone developed Ad-Block for the TV?
Post by: Cormacaroni on February 21, 2010, 09:07:31 PM

doesn't tivo do this?

Title: Re: Why hasn't anyone developed Ad-Block for the TV?
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 21, 2010, 09:09:43 PM

I usually have the TV on in the background when I'm at my computer, so I hear these awful commercials all the time. If I could just have this thing that I can tell to block certain commercials during live TV [not even all of them!], I'd be really happy.

Title: Re: Why hasn't anyone developed Ad-Block for the TV?
Post by: pilonv1 on February 21, 2010, 09:16:53 PM

My PVR has a +30 second skip.

Title: Re: Why hasn't anyone developed Ad-Block for the TV?
Post by: Bildi on February 21, 2010, 09:23:43 PM

I haven't watched anything on live TV for a years.  Record and then skip ads manually.

I read something briefly on the weekend about software that can skip ads automatically.  Don't know anything beyond that or whether it's reliable.