To me commercials are literally TORTURE!... it reminds me of Clock Work Orange (?) The movie... where they force the guy to watch a movie by forcinh his eyes open with some kind of device... just torture!
I also love my 3 DVRs, but I still consider TIVO the best... because it has that feature that when you are flying over the commercials and you press STOP, it "rewinds" about three or four seconds putting right at the begining of the segment. With the piece of junk, the DVR I got from DirecTV, it does not have that feature and it's a PIA (Pain in..) to find the beginning of the next segment. I am sure they did it on purpose to deter people from skiping them. I still dream of something that would either skip commercials automatically, or at least something that one could time the length of the "skip," say in portions of 30 seconds (3 clicks=minute and a half - like my microwave! :)
Anyone knows anything like this?
ReplayTV used to have the ability to automatically skip commercials which worked right about 80% of the time. Their newer models have the ability to press one button to go to the next "segment" of the show, which just happens to match exactly with their way of detecting commercials. They also have one button for 30 seconds forward and another for about 7 seconds backwards.