Reading today, I found a way to get ReplayTV’s most controversial feature added to my TiVO unit. ReplayTV is in a war of words with TV advertisers over a dedicated button that, when depressed, skips forward exactly 30 seconds, allowing commercials to literally fly by with the press of a button.
Turns out that TiVO has the same functionality, and using a prescribed set of keystrokes can awaken it, assigning the 30 second skip to a button seldom used by most people. I’ll try it and let you know.
Oh, and the disclaimer at the bottom of the hack page goes for me, too.
via Gizmodo
Update: works on my TiVO unit.
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