1) Enabling auto-skip when it became available generally leads the playback to auto-skip to the actual show beginning when playback of the recording is started. Will auto-skip automatically skip pre-roll ads in the same way?
2) I've been a TiVo customer since basically when I joined here. That's since the end of 2001. If I have to call and am able to opt-out of pre-roll ads when they begin on my unit, and they get disabled, I may be reasonable about it and ignore this entire topic once my devices return to normal operation. I would prefer to discover a simple user-controlled way on the box itself or via the web site where I can just go turn it off and ensure it's off and/or ensure it never goes on. Actually I'd really prefer as an existing long-multi-lifetime customer to never have it enabled without my direct request.
3) If there comes a time where I cannot stop pre-roll advertisements, or any other advertisements inserted into the service I have already paid for, I promise I will complain loudly every single time to each and every advertiser, and will do my best to stop patronizing such advertisers until they announce their discontinuance of participation in any ad program that places such ads on my TiVo device. I may even do so for those advertisements I see while awaiting it being turned off if I am forced to actually call and wait to have it turned off.
4) Further, I'll stipulate I will never again say a good thing about TiVo, the company, or its service, and will actively discourage every single person to avoid the company, and the product, and to proactively make the same effort with those friends and family members who I have gotten to move to TiVo to do the same.
5) I simply want to be excruciatingly clear on this point; you can do whatever you want to new subscribers or when creating new terms such as alternative subscription plans/service plans, but I have an existing expectation and agreement and relationship with TiVo that this will violate.
6) I Have nothing against being offered new services or opportunities. I would say I would encourage them if past history with them had ever been positive, but let's say maybe one day TiVo can do something unrelated to its core businesses well and maintain active and responsive support. Go for it. But a core, basic part of your current service is exemplified by what you've recently provided with the auto-skip feature... NO COMMERCIALS ("no" in the sense of not having to see them, being able to avoid them, and certainly not having MORE of them added). So when you actually go the other way and place them in front of my eyes yourself, against my wishes, there will simply be consequences. I do not NEED TiVo. I CHOOSE TiVo. At this time. There are other choices.
7) I'm choosing to, for the moment, ignore the possibility of having ads added to my view of the guide. That's a whole 'nuther can of worms.
