(I'm just thinking out loud here; I don't know enough about how SkipMode works to know whether this is even remotely feasible—all I know is that it's regional, and makes some kind of very clever use of closed-captioning.)
Why pay people to mark the spots for SkipMode? I wonder if it could be made possible for any TiVo user to participate: I envision/fantasize it working by...
• fast-forwarding through a commercial by the means of your choice,
• going to a little extra trouble of pausing at a good spot to resume (perhaps including rocking back & forth with the FF & RW buttons during pause—their behavior might need to be changed slightly for this),
• dismiss the advert banner (Down-Arrow),
• and pull the trigger by hitting the Select button.
That could send to the mother ship your spots for SkipMode, and I don't know—I haven't really thought it through—maybe the first person's data arriving gets set for everyone in your region.... And I mean *immediately*: For those starting at 17 minutes after the hour, each spot you mark immediately becomes available for everyone else starting right then; no waiting until the hour is up, as present.... And for all the non-prime-time, non-prominent channels that people eventually watch, there probably wouldn't be a day or so at the most before your off-topflight program gets SkipMode.
Computers could automate all that, no?... Sure there would be some participants who wouldn't mark spots as carefully as I might, but for everybody else it would still be better than having to fast-forward through the commercials yourself, right? And not having to wait until the show ends (start at 17 minutes), and having SkipMode for off-topflight shows (sooner or later) would HUGE!
No doubt there are reasons for this not being practicable, and I'm sure you folks will leap in and tell me why. But I've been wondering & wishful-thinking about this for a while.
Why pay people to mark the spots for SkipMode? I wonder if it could be made possible for any TiVo user to participate: I envision/fantasize it working by...
• fast-forwarding through a commercial by the means of your choice,
• going to a little extra trouble of pausing at a good spot to resume (perhaps including rocking back & forth with the FF & RW buttons during pause—their behavior might need to be changed slightly for this),
• dismiss the advert banner (Down-Arrow),
• and pull the trigger by hitting the Select button.
That could send to the mother ship your spots for SkipMode, and I don't know—I haven't really thought it through—maybe the first person's data arriving gets set for everyone in your region.... And I mean *immediately*: For those starting at 17 minutes after the hour, each spot you mark immediately becomes available for everyone else starting right then; no waiting until the hour is up, as present.... And for all the non-prime-time, non-prominent channels that people eventually watch, there probably wouldn't be a day or so at the most before your off-topflight program gets SkipMode.
Computers could automate all that, no?... Sure there would be some participants who wouldn't mark spots as carefully as I might, but for everybody else it would still be better than having to fast-forward through the commercials yourself, right? And not having to wait until the show ends (start at 17 minutes), and having SkipMode for off-topflight shows (sooner or later) would HUGE!
No doubt there are reasons for this not being practicable, and I'm sure you folks will leap in and tell me why. But I've been wondering & wishful-thinking about this for a while.
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