CBS--Show Labeled As Skip No Skip Mode

Reboot your TiVo. Past recording won't get SM, but hopefully future recordings do.

 

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Heard skip is tied in with closed captions. Maybe it’s a local station problem. Do you have closed captions on your CBS channel?

 

I've experienced the same problem from time to time.
Call tivo to let them know you're having this problem.

 

Well ... that's worked for me in the past. Maybe not immediately but within a couple of days. And yes, this was the same issue with CBS.

 

We get WCBS, but we don’t watch anything on that channel.

 

I think the only CBS show that we watch is Young Sheldon and no issues here with SM on any of this season's episodes.

Scott

 

FWIW, I’m an Optimum customer in lower Westchester and all my CBS prime time shows are skipping as expected. We record about 8 shows each week.

 

Since other people aren't seeing the same problem, the skip-mode data is probably okay. It's all based on closed captions, so I'd guess that something at WCBS is to blame somehow.

 

I recorded ‘Bull’ on WCBS (we are on FiOS) last night and just checked skip in it, and it worked perfectly. It auto-skipped as soon as playback started to the beginning of the show, and manual skip worked in both directions as well. The skip data is there...the problem is at your end.

I hate to state the obvious, but have you tried a reboot?

 

I've had incidents where in the 'NPL' - 'SM' is noted and works, BUT the 'PROMPT -TOP OF SCREEN' isn't always present. Commercial starts 'SKIP works'. This is with TE3 - Roamio and Xfinity. That's something that seems to be more frequent than I would have expected. If it's in the NPL - I'd expect it to work! I don't keep notes regarding which or when. Those who comment regarding missing are 'missing in NPL or what?

 

Sorry, I was slow to notice this thread. I frequently get it too. On CBS, the SKIP icon is random variable completely unrelated to whether skip will work. I have even had cases where the SKIP icon is not present, but SKIP works (that's quite rare). If the SKIP icon is present, it is about 50/50 whether it works on CBS. I'm in the Detroit market and the Detroit CBS station is also O&O. I have no idea whether that is a factor, but I noticed we have it in common.

 

So, yup.