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Please restore skip to beginning or end feature.

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When I bought my first Bolt, I was disappointed to find that the option to make the skip ahead button go to the beginning or end of the recording or buffer had been removed. I posted a comment at the time lamenting this loss of function and was a little surprised at the hostile reactions, saying, basically, "Get over it", sometimes in an extremely rude way.

Well that was several years ago, and I haven't gotten over it. When I'm watching my still-functioning Roamio and Premiere machines, I still use that feature all the time. When I use the Bolt, I have to press fast forward or reverse and then hit the skip button multiple times to move in 15 minute increments.

Why was the skip to beginning / end removed in the first place? As an old professional programmer, I can't believe it would be that difficult to restore this feature.

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Stop the Crashes said:
When I bought my first Bolt, I was disappointed to find that the option to make the skip ahead button go to the beginning or end of the recording or buffer had been removed. I posted a comment at the time lamenting this loss of function and was a little surprised at the hostile reactions, saying, basically, "Get over it", sometimes in an extremely rude way.

Well that was several years ago, and I haven't gotten over it. When I'm watching my still-functioning Roamio and Premiere machines, I still use that feature all the time. When I use the Bolt, I have to press fast forward or reverse and then hit the skip button multiple times to move in 15 minute increments.

Why was the skip to beginning / end removed in the first place? As an old professional programmer, I can't believe it would be that difficult to restore this feature.

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Maybe I'm missing something. Or maybe your Bolt doesn't behave like my Roamio Plus. I can press and hold the skip button to go to the end, or press and hold the "jump back" button for the beginning.
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Yes, I can do that too. Unfortunately, my Harmony remote doesn't learn that press-and-hold command. What I'd like restored is the old TiVo menu option in the remote settings that changed what a short press to the Advance button did. With that option, a single press of just the Advance button could jump from the beginning to the end of the buffer (or recording) and back. (No replay button involvement at all.)
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stevewjackson said:
Maybe I'm missing something. Or maybe your Bolt doesn't behave like my Roamio Plus. I can press and hold the skip button to go to the end, or press and hold the "jump back" button for the beginning.
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An update: after further experimentation with the Harmony Hub, I have found that if you assign a TiVo function to both the short and long press Harmony Hub functions for a button, the Harmony Hub retains the short and long functions of the original remote, so now a long press of a Harmony button does get me the press and hold skip to beginning (or end) function of the TiVo remote. So that's a big improvement. I still wish TiVo would add back the original menu option for the remote, however. Even a long press doesn't satisfy my lust for the original instant gratification. :)
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