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    2 days ago

    I don’t think they were talking about TV :)

    But yeah, I used to export shows from my Tivo, decrypt them, run them through comskip, re-encode to divx them with handbrake and store them on cds :)

    Most 30m shows had at least 7-8 minutes of commercials. Some cartoons had 2 shows in a 30m timeslot, commercials up to the 1m mark, 10m of show, commercial break to the next show, 6-7m of ads, ran up to 2-3 mins before the half our and had another commercial or three shove in the outro.

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        Yeah, that makes my heart sad, but my tivo went out in the trash before 2010.

        HDMI copy + comskip still exists, though.