04-02-2007, 06:41 PM
[quote JoeM]I'm going to look into replay or Tivo but wasn't there talk of them doing something so you couldn't bypass commercials?
There is no way that Replay will change their commercial skip, so I'm hanging on to mine until it the remote is pried from my cold dead fingers.
The only way to automatically skip commercials is to buy a used 50xx or older model Replay. The newer (though still used) Replay 55xxs have manual skip which is not as good, and I believe that some of the TiVos can be hacked to give a manual skip (though I don't have one so I'm not sure about that). The downside of the 50xx Replay (and all except the most recent TiVo) is that it can only handle standard definition broadcasts, and the company that owns replaytv has stopped developing new hardware, so there is no HDTV in its future. Perhaps eyetv or Replay series 3 is the way to go, though fast forward is not an acceptable alternative to commercial skip and I'm not sure that the series 3 can be hacked to do it.
There is no way that Replay will change their commercial skip, so I'm hanging on to mine until it the remote is pried from my cold dead fingers.
The only way to automatically skip commercials is to buy a used 50xx or older model Replay. The newer (though still used) Replay 55xxs have manual skip which is not as good, and I believe that some of the TiVos can be hacked to give a manual skip (though I don't have one so I'm not sure about that). The downside of the 50xx Replay (and all except the most recent TiVo) is that it can only handle standard definition broadcasts, and the company that owns replaytv has stopped developing new hardware, so there is no HDTV in its future. Perhaps eyetv or Replay series 3 is the way to go, though fast forward is not an acceptable alternative to commercial skip and I'm not sure that the series 3 can be hacked to do it.