Re: Which pvr skips over the ads ?

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"Kevin Hendrikssen" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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> "mal" <mal@net.au> wrote in message
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>> I notice last night that ads were mainly over 4 mins on 7 and every
>> hour over 5 mins. I sthere a pvr that when recording leaps over these
>> ads entirely.
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> No, it records it all, you have to press a button on the remote when you
> play it back to skip ahead. You can skip in 30 sec jumps. As mentioned
> there's a TAP for the Topfield which lets you jump ahead in 3 min jumps,
> but ad breaks are rarely exactly 3 mins.
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>

You can edit the pbk ini file so that the red key equals x seconds instead
of 180 etc

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"Netmask" <netmask@geemail.com> wrote in message
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> "Kevin Hendrikssen" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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>> "mal" <mal@net.au> wrote in message
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>>> I notice last night that ads were mainly over 4 mins on 7 and every
>>> hour over 5 mins. I sthere a pvr that when recording leaps over these
>>> ads entirely.
>>
>> No, it records it all, you have to press a button on the remote when you
>> play it back to skip ahead. You can skip in 30 sec jumps. As mentioned
>> there's a TAP for the Topfield which lets you jump ahead in 3 min jumps,
>> but ad breaks are rarely exactly 3 mins.
>
> You can edit the pbk ini file so that the red key equals x seconds instead
> of 180 etc

True, but the point is every ad break is a different length. That's why I
just skip in 30 sec steps and take it from there with the |< and >| keys.