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I was thinking of a device similar to a pi-hole for blocking TV commercials. It plugs into your TV's HDMI port and somehow as soon as a commercial starts it switches to playing some relaxing music or a low key picture slide show. Even just switching to a blank screen would be better than the commercials yelling at me. Not really sure if it is feasible because it would have to have the smarts to distinguish between the actual tv show and a commercial but I'd play good money for something like this. And for bonus there would be some running metrics, just like how those water fountains that say something like "saved 3432 plastic bottles from entering the environment," this would say "saved you for seeing 242 hours of commercials"
parent 171243 7 years ago

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