[ClearCase_guy]

I imagine they have this covered, but what if you're channel hopping?

"Channel 4 is boring. I wonder what's on Channel 5? Drat! It's that DiTech guy! Now I'm stuck here for 2 minutes! ... Whew, glad that's over. Huh. Channel 5 is boring too. I wonder what's on Channel 7? Drat! It's Levitra! Now I'm stuck here for 2 minutes!"

[Wolfie]

Yep, its gonna suck. Which is why the Feds will have to mandate it.

[Izzy Dunne]

Just wait til they have the TV chair, with wrist straps and ankle straps controlled by the TV station.

No more bathroom breaks...

[brownsfan]

"I imagine they have this covered, but what if you're channel hopping?"

I don't watch a lot of TV but I have noticed they have that covered. For some odd reason, all the channels tend to put their commercials on at the same time. Who'da thunk it?
They still haven't figured out sports. The breaks are irregular and don't fall in line with other programming.

[RogueIsland]

I imagine they have this covered, but what if you're channel hopping?

It's covered. You would be locked out of changing the channel during a commercial (I'm not kidding).

[Tanniker Smith]

Channel hopping is near-extinct in my house since we got our Dish. The first problem was that you had to wait when you hopped for the receiver to acquire the new signal, it wasn't instanteous like the set in the kitchen (which isn't wired, but doesn't have any decent reception to speak of). Then we got a hard drive and you could pause and rewind shows -- but you lose all that if you change channels. So if someone leaves the room, you can't sneak a peek and the other channels because they might want to rewind if they missed something.

(Then again, we also can't tape a channel that we aren't looking at because all the channels are Ch. 3 now.)

[ravingnutter]

Drat! It's Levitra! Now I'm stuck here for 2 minutes!

Commercials lasting longer than four hours, though rare, will require immediate destruction of the TV... ; )