<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 11, 2007, at 8:52 AM, Damian Surr wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I'm intrigued by this feature.<BR> Currently making a shopping list of things I need to turn my old PC into a MythTV media centre, so I've not actually used Myth yet.<BR> <BR> How does it detect and delete/skip the commercials? Sounds clever. Does it work everywhere, or a US thing? (I'm in the UK)<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It is by all accounts better than 90% effective in the USA, but folks here have said that it is much less reliable in the UK. I have found it to be at least 95% reliable, and the errors I have seen are all "safe" ones (ie: you wind up seeing a commercial as opposed to skipping program material).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It is less reliable in the EU for several reasons I suspect. The rate of scene change on EU commercials is not as great as the US ones, EU stations do not use the logos as much as the US ones and the EU spots tend less to be precise multiples of 30 seconds.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> If you wanted to watch live tv, for example a 2 hour film, would you pause the start and estimate the time of adverts, then start watching advert free 20 minutes later or something?<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The commercials have to be "flagged". You can start the flagging job while the program is still recorded. You could, I suppose, watch the recording as it was being recorded and flagged as long as you stayed enough behind real time, assuming you had enough CPU power to playback and flag at the same time. But it's really designed to simply watch a recording later after it has been flagged.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> Or don't any of you watch live TV any more?<BR><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Most of us do not.</DIV></BODY></HTML>