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Commercials - why can’t I skip them Anymore?
Posted on 1/29/25 at 8:38 pm
Posted on 1/29/25 at 8:38 pm
I remember when TiVo would let you FasrForward through the commercials. Hulu Live won’t let you do that.
I want a streaming service that lets me buffer live TV and skip through the commercials - like I USED to have before the technology I liked was deprecated.
Does YouTube TV do that? Directv still let you do that maybe?
I want a streaming service that lets me buffer live TV and skip through the commercials - like I USED to have before the technology I liked was deprecated.
Does YouTube TV do that? Directv still let you do that maybe?
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Posted on 1/29/25 at 9:17 pm to p226
Welcome to the new media deals that no longer allow that technology.
Posted on 1/29/25 at 9:52 pm to Cheese Grits
I was hoping someone would tell me I just had missed out on some new development, that there’s some bullshite tech thing you pay a few bucks a month for (like everything else now) to have this capability.
Aggravates me. In this area, I have LESS technical capability than I had 20 years ago.
I already pay for the Internet that brings the content into the TV in my house. Then I pay for the streaming service. Then they try to make me “rent” shows and movies. And then they make me watch lots of commercials…,that companies pay them to show.
Aggravates me. In this area, I have LESS technical capability than I had 20 years ago.
I already pay for the Internet that brings the content into the TV in my house. Then I pay for the streaming service. Then they try to make me “rent” shows and movies. And then they make me watch lots of commercials…,that companies pay them to show.
Posted on 1/29/25 at 11:36 pm to p226
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I remember when TiVo would let you FasrForward through the commercials. Hulu Live won’t let you do that.
Tivo is a recording, Hulu live is live TV. You can't fast forward live TV commercials. You can get the Hulu library without ads completely.
This post was edited on 1/29/25 at 11:37 pm
Posted on 1/30/25 at 5:06 am to p226
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TiVo
Posted on 1/30/25 at 8:30 am to p226
Like 3rd said, even in the same platform like Hulu, they, and each network (Bravo, etc.) can treat live, on demand, and recorded of the same show differently. Annnnd, even if it's recorded, if it's within 24 hours of initial air, it may treat it differently. There are certain shows where you can't start watching the recording if the episode is still live broadcasting. And others where Hulu will refuse to record the airing version in real time, and will record a version at 0300 the next morning (I used to be looking at you, Yellowstone.)
It's completely fricked, but your best chance is to record stuff, and not try to do it on demand. I know you're probably not a soccer ghey like me, but to tune into a match that's in progress, and be forced to watch 60 seconds of commercials (ETA: and I pay for Paramount+ and all these services) before seeing the live action makes me want to hit people in the balls with cinder blocks.
It's completely fricked, but your best chance is to record stuff, and not try to do it on demand. I know you're probably not a soccer ghey like me, but to tune into a match that's in progress, and be forced to watch 60 seconds of commercials (ETA: and I pay for Paramount+ and all these services) before seeing the live action makes me want to hit people in the balls with cinder blocks.
This post was edited on 1/30/25 at 8:32 am
Posted on 1/30/25 at 12:20 pm to p226
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I was hoping someone would tell me I just had missed out on some new development, that there’s some bullshite tech thing you pay a few bucks a month for (like everything else now) to have this capability.
Nope the days of you owning everything at the box to your house is done. Much creepier now is it is sourced somewhere and they don't need to send a tech anymore.
Posted on 1/30/25 at 2:47 pm to Cheese Grits
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they don't need to send a tech anymore
You're kidding, right? Didn't you love waiting on techs? The data center industry mastered this 20 years ago. Besides, you're being tracked 1,000 ways from Sunday on your phone, your apps on your TV, Gmail, etc. Being able to pull diagnostics and reboot your modem and test your line without me having to stand outside your OT baller shack getting rained on to put a tester on a line is an improvement for the cable dogs of today and you.
Posted on 1/30/25 at 11:48 pm to LemmyLives
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Being able to pull diagnostics and reboot your modem and test your line without me having to stand outside your OT baller shack getting rained on to put a tester on a line is an improvement for the cable dogs of today and you.
Yes and no
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me having to stand outside your OT baller shack getting rained
That is why I have an extended roof, to keep you dry! (well not including the shine)
Yes, remote diagnostics has advantages
No, having some tech in the Philippines is not the same as a local / regional provider with local workers (who speak English) and local job payrolls.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 6:47 am to 3down10
You don’t understand TiVo. You’d watch a live show, it would buffer it. So you’d pause it, go make a drink, come back and watch the show. Commercial come on, you’d FF through the commercial.
As long as you had buffer, you could FF through commercials on live broadcasts.
Hulu, puts a yellow shade on the commercial buffer bar, marks the commercial, so you can’t FF through it.
There’s a difference.
As long as you had buffer, you could FF through commercials on live broadcasts.
Hulu, puts a yellow shade on the commercial buffer bar, marks the commercial, so you can’t FF through it.
There’s a difference.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 9:27 am to Cheese Grits
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That is why I have an extended roof, to keep you dry! (well not including the shine)
Except the DMARC was always on the side or rear of the house/business, not on the front porch.
It's one of the times I've gone unconscious. Phones (where we split DSL off of back in the day) are supposed to have nominal voltage, maybe 12v, where it's like putting a 9V on your tongue if the line is active at worst. That changes when your hands are wet, water has seeped in your boots, and you complete the circuit with the puddle you're standing in. The back of my hand brushed the terminal just as a call came in (extra voltage), and I came to just in time to not hit the ground. I could still probably find that lawyer's office in BTR to this day. It left a mental mark.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 11:36 am to p226
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You don’t understand TiVo. You’d watch a live show, it would buffer it. So you’d pause it, go make a drink, come back and watch the show. Commercial come on, you’d FF through the commercial.
As long as you had buffer, you could FF through commercials on live broadcasts.
Hulu, puts a yellow shade on the commercial buffer bar, marks the commercial, so you can’t FF through it.
There’s a difference.
I haven't used Tivo in 20 years, so maybe. However, as I recall Tivo is not a service provider, it's just a recorder.
I have used Hulu recently. They are a service provider. Are you paying for the ad free version? I never had that problem but I used the ad free version. If you aren't using the ad free version, then yeah - they are making sure you actually see the ads because they are the provider.
If you are paying for ad free, I'd bitch to them.
This post was edited on 1/31/25 at 11:37 am
Posted on 1/31/25 at 2:34 pm to 3down10
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If you are paying for ad free, I'd bitch to them.
I have Hulu live ad-free. I’m watching CNBC live right now. I want to FF through the commercial. It says “video will continue from this point after the commercial”.
It forces me to watch the commercial. After the commercial is over, and it goes back to live content from CNBC, if I scroll back to the commercial, it makes me watch it again - can’t scroll out of the commercial.
“ad free” is misleading. Live tv on Hulu is not ad-free at all.
I’m gonna record a show off live TV see how that does with ads.
Posted on 2/1/25 at 3:35 pm to p226
Yeah. YoutubeTV allows you to fast forward.
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