Automatic mute TV

[RUFFBIRD]

TV with auto mute on commercials!
Would you like a television that could be programmed to go silent for every commercial :?: especially during the news casts. Biggest drug pushers going! :roll:
I would have a new TV tomorrow.....

 

[gasbag]

I already solved that problem.
My wife and I dropped cable and shot the television. Twice.
They charge you an obscene amount for programming and a full 1/3 of it is commercials.
Thought of a digital antenna but you still have lousy programming.
Now we read, we talk, we go outside.
We have a yard..............who knew?

 

[arfmel]

Yep, I gave away my TV.

As soon as I recognized that the “news” is really leftists’ opinions disguised as news, and quit watching it the better and happier my life became.

I don’t think the commercials were any worse than the programs.

 

[CLAYPOOL]

Any news i read is on the Puter. I can skip it VERY easily....

 

[Jeepnik]

Anyone remember the push fot pay TV? The promise was no commercials. Now we pay and still have commercials.

 

[Dave P.]

TV with auto mute on commercials!
Would you like a television that could be programmed to go silent for every commercial :?: especially during the news casts. Biggest drug pushers going! :roll:
I would have a new TV tomorrow.....

I've got my wife programmed to be about 95% effective....a few commercials sometimes
slip by her. Right now my main focus is to improve her reaction times.
If she reads this I'll get to work on my own reactions.......
Dave

 

[Rook]

When we watch TV the remote sits right between us on our La-z-boy couch recliners and as soon as a commercial comes on one of us hits the mute button and changes the channel to one of the channels that doesn't synchronize their commercials with all the other channels like the history channels etc. We'll watch that for about 5 minutes and then change back.

 

[Taterman]

Anyone remember the push fot pay TV? The promise was no commercials. Now we pay and still have commercials.

Huge lie only surpassed by "Every American will save $2500 per year on healthcare".

 

[Mobuck]

"Now we read, we talk, we go outside.
We have a yard..............who knew?"

I glad that works for you.
I can't seem to find glasses that allow me to read print for extended periods of time, I also seem to have a short attention span so following a book is problematic, I spend all day outside, I don't speak to "The Grouch Attack" unless absolutely necessary, and I consider any yard(my yard especially) a waste of pasture. Therefore, I find TV a welcome break from terminal boredom.
I do get a bit put off by the "geezer commercials" on "GRIT" TV. They obviously know their primary audience.

 

[Pat-inCO]

I do get a bit put off by the "geezer commercials" on "GRIT" TV.

Try living in retirement village (phoenix basin).
I'll bet the only place it is worse is FL.

I refuse to pay for cable/satellite/what-ever so I do the antenna route.
That gives me, I think it was 40+ channels, and by the time I lock out non English
channels, home shopping what ever's and continuous religion, it leaves about
twenty some. You can see the same commercial on four or more of them at the
same time. Humana, "free" additional coverage for your health care, and the
prestigious law firms of "Ambulance chasers R us" for the latest in "no cost to you"
litigation, and the plethora of "for just $19/mo . . . . . " whiners. Yup, geezer
commercials.

Back to thread subject . . . . Commercial broadcast music has an option of three
channels (you have to pay for the third) and the commercials are on the second
one. When the second and third do not match, the speaker output is muted so
the commercials are not heard (this is best as I can remember, but that's the
basic process).

Could TV do that? I'm sure the technology exists, but there are too many like
myself that refuse to pay for cable/satellite/etc so I seriously doubt it would ever
fly. Besides which, a new TV with that capability built it would likely also have
"Alexa" built it with it and I decline to have my TV repeating the things I say to it.