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From: mbutts@mentor.com (Mike Butts)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Commercial killer idea
Message-ID: <1989Oct27.234823.483@mentor.com>
Date: 27 Oct 89 23:48:23 GMT
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Are closed-captioned TV programs captioned during commercials?  If not,
detecting lack of captioning might be a means of detecting commercial
breaks.  It is probably much easier to detect presence or absence of
captioning than to decode and display it, so such a device might be
simple.
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