[OT] Google Wants to Use AI to Cut the UK's Electric Bill by 10 Percent

[Dave Plowman (News)]

The same groups do tend to have all their ads at the same time. Like, say, those owned by ITV. Or CH5. Could make for less work with their automated playout systems.

[Andy Burns]

Yes they're different, many will be watching (and skipping breaks?) on catchup, but what I meant was that when the ads come on on e.g. Quest, if you flick over to Quest+1 they will have synchronised ad breaks, presumably to dissuade people from channel surfing during breaks?

[Andy Burns]

I think it's deliberate to stop you avoiding ads by trying several channels ...

[whisky-dave]

Yeah more watch eastenders that doesnlt have a break :-)

Next world cup as the penanlties are being taken doubt many would accept oh we ned to reduce power so put the adverts on will be acceptable. Anyway I put the kettle on during the ads, so eliminating ads would mean I don't make tea ;-)

But in reality I pause live TV then go make tea come back and FF through the ads so not sure whether this method will save the country any electricity it's more like to make us use more.

[whisky-dave]

I thought such things were already availble not off the shelf but can be built to order, a mile from me is a place that makes electric gates few places locally have such a thing.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I've got a TV in the kitchen too - so no need to miss anything. ;-)

[dennis]

Pause it a few minutes before the ads and put the kettle on, then it won't be such a big peak.

I virtually never watch live TV, its all recorded and watched when I feel like it.

Once you have the ability to record whatever you like then you watch less cr@p and no adverts.

[tim...]

I've got a PVR that manages that perfectly adequately

tim

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[tim...]

I've got a kitchen in my living room

much simpler :-)

tim

[whisky-dave]

What if you want to go for a shit is there a TV in the toilet too. Surely having a TV in every room you are likely to be in would mean more electic usuage rather than less, but at least you could watch the ads when taking a shit. ;-)

[whisky-dave]

It will be if everyone does it. But why pause it when you're watching it ?

Me too, I still haven't watched the 1966 world cup england-germany but I've seen the highlights.

It still records the adverts, in fact a couple of times I've purposefully recorded the ads. rather than the program.

[whisky-dave]

They have a TV in the local kebab shop so I don't even need to cook :-)

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Electric curtains have been around for at least 50 years. Easiest way was a motor unit which worked with any corded track.

There (was) a firm in Croydon who made them - called PowerCord. Used what looked like a couple of gramophone turntable motors and a custom made gearbox. They also made larger units for theatre etc curtains.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

If you need to go for a shit every ad break, give up on the home made beer.

[whisky-dave]

A friend said he made his own by using an old sony VCR as the control. Sound duibious to me even if you could gear down the motors. But it was remote controlled.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Mine works from an ordinary two way switched circuit. Fixed switching - with the switch(s) in a sensible position means you don't have to search for the remote control. I'm surprised a VCR motor had enough grunt.

Mine is in the bedroom, and it's nice to open the curtains in the morning before getting out of bed, on a sunny day.

[Max Demian]

I've avoided ads since 1991 when I got my second VCR.

[116e32s]

I used to work an industry using lots of computer clusters. Unfortunately, those datacentres were located in cities such as Houston, Singapore, Perth, Cairo where air conditioning became a big expense.