It’s like a device that automatically skips ads on TV...
I actually have a VCR that will do this. There was coding on the original ReplayTV that would do this as well, which was of a great amount of concern to the networks when it was released, and the feature disappeared in subsequent releases.
Of course, that is all moot now. You can pay a $1.99 premium on a show from the iTunes music store and not have commercials. Or you can bit torrent it for nothing only a little bit after it airs. The latter sounds like networks should hate it, but honestly I think it serves as great marketing to sell DVDs. I don't know how that necessarily translates for web sites aside from website authors becoming book authors and using their web sites as the initial place to market themselves and get people reading their writing.
I actually have a VCR that will do this. There was coding on the original ReplayTV that would do this as well, which was of a great amount of concern to the networks when it was released, and the feature disappeared in subsequent releases.
Of course, that is all moot now. You can pay a $1.99 premium on a show from the iTunes music store and not have commercials. Or you can bit torrent it for nothing only a little bit after it airs. The latter sounds like networks should hate it, but honestly I think it serves as great marketing to sell DVDs. I don't know how that necessarily translates for web sites aside from website authors becoming book authors and using their web sites as the initial place to market themselves and get people reading their writing.