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Well, tv stations these days speed up the playback of older shows by a few percent so they can fit more commercials in than the original creator provided time f

• toast0 3y ago
  If you're lucky they speed up the playback. If you're not, they cut to commercial on a schedule, damn the content. Doesn't matter if you miss the punchline of the joke that was being setup this whole time. Of course, it's worse with online tv with ad breaks. The online ads cut in 2-5 seconds before or after the program break, so it interrupts the content, and if you skip back to try it again, they play another ad, also inserted incorrectly. To make it even worse, the ads are usually at a different framerate and resolution from the content, so you get a new resync and a new hdcp handshake, so there goes another few seconds of content; unless you set your player to fixed resolution and framerate which isn't ideal. I'm in prime circumstances to be a couch potato in front of the tv, but it's so damn frustrating, it's not worth it. You can't even channel surf, because tuning a new channel takes too long, so you've got to plan your changes.