http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/ Engadget Comments for BSkyB patents ad skipping for digital video recorders http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/
So perhaps this will be used not to allow skipping of commercials, but as an added legal way to prevent others from commercial elimination.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/
Sky can say "Arhhh, Mr Generic Box Maker from Taiwan, you can't add advert skipping to your new DTT/HDD box because we've already patented it!"

10% advert revenue to Sky is indeed slight for Mr Murdoch. However, his Sky Digital proposition is about a large number of channels (albeit of crap quality), and those channels will fade away if their precious advertising revenue is threatened.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/
There are a number of other patents by Intel, Philips, Sanyo, SRT and others on similar technology, such as 6,771,316; 6,714,594; 6,597,405; 6,483,987; 6,002,443; 5,999,689; 5,987,210; 5,911,029; 5,696,866 and 5,692,093.

Of course, BSkyB could have discovered an entirely different method of detecting commercials. (Seems unlikely).]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/
And for a Second there, I thought this was about them locking it down so we would have to watch ads *PHEW* I bet they will offer some extra box with this function that costs even more per month then the normal boxs its the sort of thing they would do :(]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/04/bskyb-patents-ad-skipping-for-digital-video-recorders/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AM