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ars on April 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Let's hack television by getting rid of all commer...

> The hard part of this would be connecting some crowd-sourced mute intelligence to the actual mute button on the TV.

Buy a cheap USB HDTV tuner. Install MythTV. Start watching all 1 hours shows 20 minutes late. Then let MythTV skip commercials for you automatically.

watmough on April 24, 2012 [–]

I laughed out loud. You are trying to curse me with MythTV!!!

Seriously though, I have run it, even debugged the channel changing under Linux and stopped it hanging up, but sadly I live out of range of a decent HDTV signal for right now.

ars on April 24, 2012 | [–]

You can hook up the tuner to your cable as well. Especially if it's digital cable.

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