"Kill" Commercials from B&W Video Transfers

Digitize the video on a computer and then cut out the commercials before you burn it to DVD, it should be real easy.

Well, I've never actually bought or built one, but I remember seeing something like this being published in a hobby electronics magazine as a hobby project years ago....I think it tried to exploit the fact that some average level of the video or audio signal was usually different during commercials. I think it may have been designed to mute the audio during commercials...perhaps it detected a different DC black level on the video or a change in the amplitude and/or shape of sync pulses. It's been a long time and I don't even remember the name of the magazine, but hopefully this is food for thougtht.

you may be able to detect the lack of color info in the "active" portion of the video....

inside the vcr this might be easy if it is a "color under" architecture and the color is processed through a seperate channel in the eVCR lectronics...

Mark

"Mark" bravely wrote to "All" (31 Jan 06 14:12:39) --- on the heady topic of "Re: "Kill" Commercials from B&W Video Transfers"

Ma> From: "Mark" Ma> Xref: core-easynews sci.electronics.repair:357023

Ma> you may be able to detect the lack of color info in the "active" Ma> portion of the video....

Ma> inside the vcr this might be easy if it is a "color under" Ma> architecture and the color is processed through a seperate channel in Ma> the eVCR lectronics...

I came across a Thompson tv that had Commercial Skip written at the bottom of the front bezel. I suppose it would mute the audio but I didn't have the original remote to try this out.

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