Comment A great opportunity to block ads even easier? (Score 1) 823
Anyon else see this as a great opportunity to help us avoid ads even easier?
Currently the ad skip technology revolves around detecting black frames and pauses in transmissions to skip ads - but once broadcasters start using a flag in the transmission that says "ads are on NOW" then some enterprising individuals will have patches and hacks for open source HTPC/Set top boxes that will immediately detect the flag and skip the ads. Every open source HTPC will easily incorporate the code, and probably hacks will pop up over night for commercial PVRs.
Currently the ad skip technology revolves around detecting black frames and pauses in transmissions to skip ads - but once broadcasters start using a flag in the transmission that says "ads are on NOW" then some enterprising individuals will have patches and hacks for open source HTPC/Set top boxes that will immediately detect the flag and skip the ads. Every open source HTPC will easily incorporate the code, and probably hacks will pop up over night for commercial PVRs.
