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crowdsourced data driven smart phone app that lets you know when your program comes back from commercial. just tap the screen reapetdley once the program is bac
by mathiasben 15y ago
crowdsourced data driven smart phone app that lets you know when your program comes back from commercial. just tap the screen reapetdley once the program is back on. when signing on the user selects what they are watching, which network, locality, etc.. If you are the first person to sign on for that program, you would have to type in the details so others could follow it. use some sort of averging equation to cancel out the early tappers and the late tappers. no need to mess with synching scheduling data, the users do all the work. offer some incentive for those that inform the rest of the users that the commercial break is over. it's a dopey idea.
- dkokelley 15y agoI've thought about this before. In reality, this doesn't require a crowd sourced solution if users are willing to pay in some way for the data. One person could keep track of a few channels at a time, and the most popular channels would be the first ones to track. What would be really interesting is a device that can understand the difference between commercials and programming and make the alert automatically.
- mathiasben 15y agoI can't imagine anyone willing to pay for the service, beyond paying to download the app. cable television has cue marks inserted to indicate where to place the commercials. dvrs know where the commercials are, maybe there's a way to siphon off that info and redirect it.
- nodata 15y agoDoesn't the black square in the corner of the screen tell you this? or maybe that doesn't exist any more.