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- From: agodwin@acorn.co.uk (Adrian Godwin)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Filtering TV Commercials
- Message-ID: <18337@acorn.co.uk>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 12:32:34 GMT
- References: <1992Sep03.042045.5095@ecst.csuchico.edu> <55550028@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
- Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, UK
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- In article <55550028@hpscit.sc.hp.com} rkarlqu@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Rick Karlquist) writes:
- } Actually, now that all new TV sets will be closed-caption ready
- } and commercials are starting to be captioned, you should be able
- } to build a system that monitors the ASCII in the captions and
- } looks for keywords (such as tradenames) to eliminate commercials.
- } You could also eliminate "bullshit" by adding keywords relating
- } to what you define as such. I wish I could search for keywords
- } relating to abortion and gun control and filter talk shows so
- } I wouldn't have to hear the same old arguments on those topics
- } rehashed for the nth time.
-
- Yes ! a 'kill' file for TV !
-
- I'd would need an alarm though, so that my attention could be brought
- back to the TV for the 5 minutes a day when something got through the
- filters ....
-
- Note to the person writing an FAQ for this group .. can adkillers go
- in there please, along with ECM for police radar as discussed-to-death ?
- I nominate the 'most effective solution' for adkillers to be the
- suggestion made last time around : that an adkiller service be supplied,
- via dialup line or pager channel, with kill signals generated by a team of
- dedicated kids and a majority voting circuit.
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-
- -adrian
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- Adrian Godwin : agodwin@acorn.co.uk : adrian@fangorn.demon.co.uk : g7hwn@gb7khw
- ObDisclaimer : I believe this rubbish .. don't imagine that anyone else does.
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