Automatic SkipMode Project Proposal

No ding for anyone using Dolby digital. Which should be everyone using an AVR.

 

Commercial free broadcasts are available from the right places typically within in seconds of the show airing on the east coast. Why go through a more complicated measure rather than just download it?

 

By that logic, why even have a TiVo in the first place?

Besides TonyD79's very salient point, that doesn't sound too difficult. As a Dolby Digital user, I don't get the dings...does anyone know if they use the same tone for other TiVo-related notifications (back before the AVR, I seem to recall the commercial thumbs-up pop-ups had dings, for instance)?

 

Because using tools such as PyTivo, that have been discussed on this board, can already give you the same outcome as what you are proposing.

 

I'm just saying that you can already do that. I hit play on my Tivo and I get a whole show without ads. It's all done automatically.

 

Interesting...something I'll have to play with.. My RPi2 is doing triple duties right now as an MAME/Retro-console game emulator, IOT hub, and backup scheduler, so I don't want to add any more tasks to it, But I'm planning on moving the games to a RPi3 at some point, which'll free up plenty of cycles for something like this on the 2.

Even if we ignore the legality(we're also talking about skipping ads, so moral arguments have already shot right out the door ;-) ). There's still an ongoing cost (bandwidth) involved with the download and push approach, as well as some appreciable delay until the show downloads to a local pc and then transfers to the TiVo. For <$40, the Pi could 'just work' as soon as skipmode is made available.

 

Talk about people being lazy, for one button push per AD, I remember having to get up with my first piano key VCR and having to push FF and go back and forth to get by the ADs, this single button push from my chair, at least to me, is the best.

 

Would be nice if Skipmode would go a step further and clip out and delete the actual commercial itself. In a 60 minute show, there's 20 minutes of commercials. As a result, 1/3 of your TiVo's recordings are commercials. Could definitely store more shows if we're not storing commercials that people only skip over anyways.

 

I hope you realize you don't have to wait until that banner comes up.. Just hit channel up (or the letter key) right when the commercial starts.. or heck, ANY time if you want to jump in the middle of the show to the beginning of the next segment..

 

1) Studies have shown that most people DO NOT skip over commercials.. yes, even with DVRs..
2) the skip marks ARE NOT ACCURATE.. While I would love this ability (actually, I would PAY good money for the ability to do 'minimal' in/out editing on Tivo recordings directly on the Tivo), basing it on the commercial skip markers would MISS SHOW.. that would make me very mad.
3) This would almost certainly be lawsuit bait, if the theories about this being done "at user action" is really the reason why this is tolerated but not more automatic skipping... (IANAL, but it seems to me that literally deleting it from the hard drive is more "severe" than theoretical automatic skipping.)

 

I have had ZERO skip markers that missed show.

 

I'm not the only one who has noted this, btw.