Commercials and DVRs don't really mix. Honestly, snagging a DVR is one of the best things you can do if you've no interest in sitting through ads. And somebody in the business knows it. Dish Network subscribers will now get the feature viewers have been waiting for since the beginning of television -- the choice to automatically skip over...Source: http://hothardware.com/News/Dish-Network-Auto-Hop-Leaps-Right-Past-Those-Pesky-Ads/
Thanks for sharing, Danny! Most of us that work at DISH are also customers and the general feeling in my office is that the choice is what makes this great. While I can't speak for others, almost all of the shows I watch are already recorded with PrimeTime Anytime so I can use Auto Hop them all. Take this morning as an example. I wanted to watch last night's episode of Smash, so I went to play the show and a message appeared asking me if I wanted to "hop over" commercial breaks. Until today I didn't realize how long all the commercials were, as it only took me about 43 minutes to watch the entire episode. While the time savings is amazing, what I like most is that I have the choice to watch commercials or not.
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