Doug,

You still seem to be talking about how your VCR operates. The Replay box has the benefit of being able to analyse entire chunks of video at a time (i.e. it has direct access to a recorded show, unlike a sequential VCR) and the algorithm is far more sophisticated.

When we discussed this with the applications manager at Santa Clara he claimed that the failure condition is to not skip commercials - i.e. it won't skip programme content.

The feedback I've heard is that this works very well - often better than the 80% that we claim. I haven't heard of it skipping content.

Rob