Editing out adverts on DVD

[mrs_emma_peel]

I have two Sony 360 DVD Recorders bought in 2007 … with which I’ve been very pleased … the only omission from an otherwise excellent set of specifications was that the instructions did not seem to indicate that advert breaks could be edited out … I was disappointed that apparently only the end-over-run of a programme could be erased by using an A-B Erase facility.



However, due to a brief picture freeze … 20 second skip fault ... on a usually very reliable Fuji +RW DVD disc and re-reading the Sony instruction booklet … I have found much to my delight yet simultaneous embarrassment … that I had not read the Sony instruction booklet closely enough and that for the past 3 years I could indeed have edited out all advert breaks very easily using the very same A-B Erase facility … after the programme was recorded.



There is no pause/record facility on the DVD Recorder, but with this newly discovered edit function editing is both easier and extremely precise. So if it had not been for (hopefully) one rogue disc … other discs have played perfectly fine ... I would not have re-read the instruction booklet and found a very useful editing tool indeed. The only downside is that the disc-space-time cannot be re-claimed … but nevertheless I’m delighted to have discovered this very helpful editing function …

it’s only taken me 3 years to find it!



I’ve just edited a Military History documentary that originally ran for 118 mins with advert breaks …but after the final edit … the actual running time is 96 minutes … 22 minutes of adverts edited out.



Now, I have the enormous, yet pleasant, task of going through my DVD collection, selecting programmes/films and editing out the advert breaks … I think the record time I’ve experienced for one ad-break … on satellite television … was nearly 7 minutes! It’s almost a case of advert breaks being interrupted by programmes!

Emma

[GoggleboxUK]

Extended advertising was a major factor in my decision to 'lose' the teelevision.



It sounds an ideal counter-measure by recorder manufacturers to install such a useful tool into their machines. If only television channels would take note.



A 7 minutes advert break seems ridiculuosly extensive and surely defeats the object of advertising breaks by allowing viewers enough time to do something else. Repapering the lounge or driving to the supermarket perhaps?

[smudge]

I've seen some very annoying ad breaking on Sky. One of the worst was jumping straight into ads after a short teaser and the opening credits!!



Smudge

[Windthrop]

Who actually watches commercials nowadays - I haven't since the advent of he video recorder. Even on broadcasts I turn the sound off to avoid them.

[Bernardo]

Too right, fast forward which is silent double bliss! It would take ages to edit out the adds before finalising on a ram or RW disc. Not worth it it is like growing peas or buying them frozen.

[Edward G]

Mrs Peel,

Just like you, I use the "A-B Erase" editing tool a lot while transfering recorded programmes from Sky + to DVD/RW discs. I cannot abide the ads being on a programme that I want to keep and Sky, in particular, pollute the programmes with ads - sometimes shortly after transmission has started!

Unlike Bernardo, I don't regard this as "like growing peas". If you do it as soon as you have the programme on disc then it's done and sorted.

I have a question for the techies though.

Having recoded onto a DVR/RW disc from my Panasonic I find that even after finalising the disc in the machine I cannot play it on any other player or back it up onto my PC. It doesn't finalise it like it does on a DVD/R disc - obviously because it's re-writable.

Ideally, I'd like to split up the programmes from a "compliation" DVD/RW disc and back them up individually as ISO files onto a back up drive.

I have DVD Shrink, DVD Decrypter and Fab Decryper - any advice as to how I can do this chaps?

name='mrs_emma_peel']I have two Sony 360 DVD Recorders bought in 2007 … with which I’ve been very pleased … the only omission from an otherwise excellent set of specifications was that the instructions did not seem to indicate that advert breaks could be edited out … I was disappointed that apparently only the end-over-run of a programme could be erased by using an A-B Erase facility.



However, due to a brief picture freeze … 20 second skip fault ... on a usually very reliable Fuji +RW DVD disc and re-reading the Sony instruction booklet … I have found much to my delight yet simultaneous embarrassment … that I had not read the Sony instruction booklet closely enough and that for the past 3 years I could indeed have edited out all advert breaks very easily using the very same A-B Erase facility … after the programme was recorded.



There is no pause/record facility on the DVD Recorder, but with this newly discovered edit function editing is both easier and extremely precise. So if it had not been for (hopefully) one rogue disc … other discs have played perfectly fine ... I would not have re-read the instruction booklet and found a very useful editing tool indeed. The only downside is that the disc-space-time cannot be re-claimed … but nevertheless I’m delighted to have discovered this very helpful editing function …

it’s only taken me 3 years to find it!



I’ve just edited a Military History documentary that originally ran for 118 mins with advert breaks …but after the final edit … the actual running time is 96 minutes … 22 minutes of adverts edited out.



Now, I have the enormous, yet pleasant, task of going through my DVD collection, selecting programmes/films and editing out the advert breaks … I think the record time I’ve experienced for one ad-break … on satellite television … was nearly 7 minutes! It’s almost a case of advert breaks being interrupted by programmes!

Emma