Does TiVo do “Commercial Skip”?
ReplayTV, and many VCRs, have a feature to skip over commercials automatically. Instead of that, TiVo has fast-forward with auto rollback, which works as follows: When fast-forwarding at the 20x or 60x speeds (2 and 3 arrows), wait until you see the show restart, then press Play, and it should back up to just the return of the show (assuming you have Nintendo reflexes, which I don’t 🙂 ). 60x backs up more than 20x, and 3x doesn’t do it at all. It does the same thing on rewinding 20x and 60x. This difference between Replay and TiVo gives rise to many debates over skip versus fast-forward w/auto rollback. There is a unofficial, undocumented way to turn on 30 second skip. This will turn the “skip to end” (->|) button into 30 second skip. To try it, enter the following sequence of buttons: Select-Play-Select-3-0-Select. Entering the code works best while watching a recorded show. The code will toggle 30 second skip off/on so enter it again to switch back if you don’t like it. Also, after
