2012-01-30, 03:06
So in my quest to incorporate ads into my channel surfing I have found a wonderful resource for literally thousands of classic TV ads I thought I should share. Some of these ads really crack me up. Especially cigarette ads.
http://www.archive.org/details/television
On a side note about interleaving ads. I have found that if I interleave ads from a hidden channel into all my other channels that they will play all the ads in the same order in every channel. This really isn't an optimal way to randomize ads as if i go from one channel that is time shifted back to another channel I can easily see the same chain of ads over again. I was wondering how hard it would be to add a global setting such as the add logo setting where you say yes to advertising, point to the folder with all your ads, and set the frequency of ads showing up (every show, every other show, so forth). With this setting triggered when any channel is setting itself up it will interleave randomly selected ads from your ad folder at the frequency you set.
At the very least maybe ad a setting under the interleave channel rules to randomly interleave from the hidden ad channel instead of sequentially interleaving?
http://www.archive.org/details/television
On a side note about interleaving ads. I have found that if I interleave ads from a hidden channel into all my other channels that they will play all the ads in the same order in every channel. This really isn't an optimal way to randomize ads as if i go from one channel that is time shifted back to another channel I can easily see the same chain of ads over again. I was wondering how hard it would be to add a global setting such as the add logo setting where you say yes to advertising, point to the folder with all your ads, and set the frequency of ads showing up (every show, every other show, so forth). With this setting triggered when any channel is setting itself up it will interleave randomly selected ads from your ad folder at the frequency you set.
At the very least maybe ad a setting under the interleave channel rules to randomly interleave from the hidden ad channel instead of sequentially interleaving?