Thomas Hargrove (ciagon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > When doing my design project review, we talked to someone from a company > that makes all sorts of hardware for digital broadcast (for compression, > adding logos, multiplexing, etc...) Do u know some internet place I can find more info about this equipment? > > He said that broadcast video starts off with some sort of queue signal that > tell the downstream companies where to place adds. I guess there was some > abuse of this data, so everyone removes the queues before they get to the > consumer. We asked if there was anything similar in the vertical blank, but > he said no. :( So this explain why the ads are blank in satellite but not in a regional TV. Back to asking grandma to press pause once in commercials. regards, Marco
