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Re:Launch HN: Taiv (YC W20) – Replace TV commercials with co... by mkagenius on Monday March 23, 2020 @02:36PM (#22667155)
> Taiv uses custom hardware that lets us analyze the cable box’s video output in real-time.

Is that a VGA decoder + some chip deployed with heuristics?

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Re:Launch HN: Taiv (YC W20) – Replace TV commercials with co... by npalansky on Monday March 23, 2020 @02:46PM (#22667255)
That's a part of it, but we also pull off & pre-process quite a few heuristics to make the real-time video processing feasible
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