Comments on: TiVo Is No Longer Skipping Past Advertisers

By: megazone

megazone — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:13:21 +0000

“Do it again to turn it off.”

By: jccohen

jccohen — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:11:33 +0000

Okay, its great… but on the off chance the wife don’t like it, how do I turn it off?

By: megazone

megazone — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 05:02:51 +0000

After you use it for a while you get pretty adept at hitting it a few times, and then trickplay to jump back. If you watch the same networks and shows a lot you tend to develop a subconcious idea of how long the breaks are. I find I can get through breaks fasted by jumping forward several times and then back once or twice than I can with FF.

Some people like FF better. I guess it is just a matter of personal preference.

By: deltabob

deltabob — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 04:47:49 +0000

Heck, I almost always FFW the commercials, but if something catches my eye that I want to look at, I stop and go back to it.
I think the pop ups could be ok, but I’ll wait to see how they are implemented.

By: irihs

irihs — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 04:29:01 +0000

“yellow stars,” even!

By: irihs

irihs — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 04:28:23 +0000

Cool! I’m sure I will be able to ignore these as successfully as I ignore all the yellow starts that don’t have movie trailers for me.

My only worry is that they will make them so they cover the entire screen, making it impossible to know when to stop FFing through the commercials. But it sounds like that’s not what’s happening, so I’m fine with it. And if this at all mitigates the growing trend of annoying and loud popups that networks insert at the bottom of the screen, I’m all for it!

By: bryant

bryant — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 04:19:09 +0000

I’ll go with “worrisome trend,” thanks. In and of itself, no big deal. In conjunction with “we won’t let you keep content from PPVs forever,” I start to worry.

If you’re making money from the blipverts, and your advertisers say “hey, you know, this isn’t as valuable to us if the skip 30 code keeps working,” will you resist the pressure? I’m worried.

By: mangler103

mangler103 — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 04:17:52 +0000

Don’t they already do this with some TV show commercials? Like when you get a thumbs up sign if you want to record it? I barely notice those, as long as I can see the action on screen so I know when to play, I’ve got no problems. Whatever keeps the company strong.

By: bryant

bryant — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 04:11:15 +0000

Not if you then hit the “skip back” button.

By: agrajag

agrajag — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 02:49:10 +0000

Don’t you end up missing the first few seconds after a commercial if you do that?

By: jccohen

jccohen — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:50:31 +0000

Way cool. Thanks for telling me!

By: megazone

megazone — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:42:31 +0000

Enter ‘Select Play Select 3 0 Select’ while watching a recording. Now the ‘Advance’ button (aka skip to tick, looks like ‘->|’) jumps ahead 30 seconds at a time. Do it again to turn it off. Reboots also turn it off.

The only unit I know it doesn’t work on is the Toshiba SD-H400.

By: jccohen

jccohen — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:39:33 +0000

I suppose I should know… but 30 second skip? What’s that?

By: axey

axey — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:25:18 +0000

As long as the ‘billboards’ aren’t coming up during the programming, I could care less. If they start popping up in the middle of my show, that’s annoying.

By: yakko7178

yakko7178 — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:59:56 +0000

Tivo’s been a good citizen for the 4 years I’ve been a customer, I give them the benefit of the doubt until I have reason not to.

By: emarosan

emarosan — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:10:45 +0000

Yeah, this is absolutely no big deal. I was worried for nothing.

Blah for bloggers making a big deal out of nothing.