[watmough]

Personally, I mute commercials, and I'd rather burn the energy to do that, than have my consciousness sucked away by being forced to listen to their drivel.

I only watch a really limited amount of TV anyway. Fringe, Big Bang Theory, local news, pretty much.

The hard part of this would be connecting some crowd-sourced mute intelligence to the actual mute button on the TV.

[ars]

> The hard part of this would be connecting some crowd-sourced mute intelligence to the actual mute button on the TV.

Buy a cheap USB HDTV tuner. Install MythTV. Start watching all 1 hours shows 20 minutes late. Then let MythTV skip commercials for you automatically.

[watmough]

I laughed out loud. You are trying to curse me with MythTV!!!

Seriously though, I have run it, even debugged the channel changing under Linux and stopped it hanging up, but sadly I live out of range of a decent HDTV signal for right now.

[ars]

You can hook up the tuner to your cable as well. Especially if it's digital cable.