Voiceovers – a solution?

Having been getting annoyed by voiceovers, summaries, and all sorts of other “dumbing down” guff recently, I think I’ve just come up with the solution. (OK, it’d take some approval from the TV people, but all the same it’s a bit of a knockout idea

Channels. Soundtrack channels, like on a DVD. You could have the normal soundtrack channel, voiceover and all, as the default, but you could then change the soundtrack channel if you wanted, similar to the “director’s commentary” on DVD, so that all you got was the actual programme, no voiceovers.

Hell, I’d subscribe to an option like that, if it could be made into a generic ( i.e. multi-channel) consideration. Mind you, I’d also be willing to do the same for advert-free viewing, but that’s something else, and probably technically harder to do.