Xref: utzoo sci.electronics:3744 rec.video:4154
Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!gatech!bbn!bbn.com!levin
From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.video
Subject: Re: VCR comercial eliminator
Message-ID: <29280@bbn.COM>
Date: 2 Sep 88 13:19:59 GMT
References: <257@ivucsb.UUCP> <16314@apple.Apple.COM> <17659@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <1831@loral.UUCP> <45@calmasd.GE.COM> <1039@mtund.ATT.COM>
Sender: news@bbn.COM
Reply-To: levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin)
Organization: BBN Communications Corporation
Lines: 21

In article <1039@mtund.ATT.COM> smc@mtund.UUCP (Steven Casagrande) writes:
(A few years back there was a device that would detect the Color SubCarrier
(transmitted by the TV Station.  Apparently, if you were trying to tape
(a B&W movie (i.e., late at night), it would detect the switch from
(the B&W movie to the COLOR commercial, and would then stop the tape
((using a hardwired pause line - this was about 6 yrs ago).  It was
(supposed to be pretty fast, but I wonder if the station would just
(transmit the color subcarrier anyway during the movie (to avoid this 
(effect).  I think VIDICRAFT made this box, and it was called "The
(Commercial Eliminator" or something like that.

I read about this one.  Maybe it would work better now, but a few
years ago on some stations I watched, switching the subcarrier was
manual and there would often be five minutes after the movie resumed
before someone would remember to shut it off; and it often came on a
minute before it was needed.  That much of a movie I would hate to
have cut.

	/JBL

UUCP:     {backbone}!bbn!levin		POTS: (617) 873-3463
INTERNET: levin@bbn.com