[mythtv-users] Commercial Overlays

[Ian Forde]

Response below... (no top-posting for me!)

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 23:13 -0700, Dave Phillips wrote:
> I can't offer any help but I do share your pain.
> The worst was last week when they were overlaying on top of Hero's
> dialog.
> My japanese is nonexistant. ;-)
> 
> Garry Cook <garrycook at gmail.com> wrote:
>         So, the overlays during shows are annoying enough, but tonight
>         I saw something new. During Heroes there was an overlay for a
>         movie coming out this week. I've never seen these for anything
>         other than other shows on the same network. I can see this
>         becoming a replacement for commercials. Imagine, instead of a
>         40 minute recording with annoying overlays before and after
>         the skipped commercials, an entire 60 minute recording with no
>         commercials, but constantly overlaid with ads that fux0r your
>         suspension of disbelief. 
>         
>         Is there anyway to remove these? Anyone working on it?
>         Anything I can do to help? These must be on a different
>         'signal' or something, right?

Same signal.  I don't believe that there's anything that can be done,
since it comes in mixed from the network feed, which would be before the
(if applicable) cable headend... it's insidious... maybe even
comcasidios!

	-I