My VCR Can Automatically Advance Thru Commercials...Why not Tivo Too?

[ottomatic]

My Panasonic VCR can mark commercials after recording so that during playback, commercials will be automatically forwarded thru.

I just got a Tivo and was suprised that a similar feature is not available. I got spoiled not having to use the remote when watching my recorded shows. Any way to get the Tivo to do this?

[Gregor]

Not that I know of. Personally, I just use FF or the 30 sec skip.

[stevel]

Your VCR uses a patented technology which is not licensed to TiVo. (It is licensed to Replay, a TiVo competitor, but they've been forced to reduce its functionality due to lawsuits.)

[mportuesi]

And if TiVo somehow licensed the technology from Replay, they would get creamed by the networks and other content providers who are already leery of losing revenue due to ad-skipping. Never mind that we've been able to skip commercials ever since the advent of the VCR, some 30 years ago.

[JimSpence]

FF and 30s skip are your friends. :)

How well does the skip work with the Panasonic?

[Dan203]

Not to mention that TiVo actually needs you to use FF rather then skip, since they sell little tagged advertisements to advertisers that are only displayed when FFing.

Dan