[mythtv] ABC wants to block DVR Fastforwarding

[Joe Votour]

--- Derek Meek <thekazan at gmail.com> wrote:

> no, i sent this to Dev because anything they try to
> do block commercial
> skipping affects the development of mythTV
> 
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
> 
> >On 07/07/2006 12:20 PM, Derek Meek wrote:
> >  
> >
>
>>http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/07/154205
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Think you selected the wrong address in the MUA's
> autocomplete...  
> >Didn't you mean to send this to mythtv-users?
> >
> >Mike
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This is actually something that should be on the
-users list.

If you read the article, you'll notice that they're
asking the MSOs (the cable operators) to put the
feature in their particular PVR setups - not that
they're developing technology to thwart it.  Since
MythTV doesn't supply any PVR hardware/software to the
MSOs, it doesn't affect MythTV in the least.

If the commercials can't be skipped, then users will
do what I sometimes do when I'm watching something in
MythTV using the LiveTV feature - hit the bathroom or
get something from the kitchen, and then rewind back
if necessary.

-- Joe

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