This reminds me of a fairly simple approach to commercial skipping [1] in the early days of DVRs: the TV station's logo is never visible during commercials but

This reminds me of a fairly simple approach to commercial skipping [1] in the early days of DVRs: the TV station's logo is never visible during commercials but always during regular programming. This was for German TV in the 1990s/early 2000s. I've never watched much TV, neither in Germany nor elsewhere, so I don't know if this applies to TV in other countries or if it still applies in Germany these days. Still, I always thought this was a smart solution to an otherwise quite difficult problem. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_skipping http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_skipping