Halfbakery: Programmable TV Intro and Recap Skipping

The obvious thing I'm going to miss out here is ads because you know, it's complicated.

When we watch TV, we tend to be subjected to "tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em" and "tell 'em what you've told 'em" repeatedly, i.e. you get a massive long recap at the start, all the flim-flam introducing the programme, quite often "next time" stuff and even recaps before and after commercial breaks. This is all really irritating.

Televisions nowadays are smart. They interpolate frames and they recognise what you're trying to get them to show you, so on some level they must be able to identify individual series and seasons. We know that on a certain series you have to skip to three minutes and seven seconds every time before anything really happens. On another series, our son watches with me just before he goes to work and although we choose to skip the intro, it somehow always plays the last ten seconds, and since he has to dash out the door, this is most irritating and leads to him missing the end of the episode, which we then have to catch up with next time and so on.

So, what I want is the ability to program the TV to skip to exact points in particular series because if we can learn when to do this, so can the telly. I'm not talking about skipping ads, although that would also be good if controversial. We've resigned ourselves to those. But what about all the fluff and padding?