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Trimming Television to Sell More Ads

Posted by michael on from the blood-from-a-stone dept.

gambit3 writes: "Tech TV has an article about a device called a "Digital Time Machine", that does something called "Time Trimming", which is basically a way to cut single frames from different scenes in TV programs, which, over the course of a 30 minute program, can add up to 30 seconds, which is, incidentally, the perfect length to add ANOTHER commercial."

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  1. Re:So what's wrong with this? by 1010011010 · · Score: 5, Offtopic

    What pisses me off is that Fox went to all the trouble to pay for Futurama and The Simpsons, and then they keep running the "NFL Postgame" over the Groening time slots. Sometimes they "join the program already in progress," i.e., roll the last scene and credits for the show that "Howie" has blathered over for 25 minutes. Retarded. Shut up, Howie. We all saw the game already.

    The one hour of TV I want to see during the week, and they fill it with redundant lip-flapping that contains no new information. Fucking football.

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