[mythtv-users] Tivo has Commercial Skip in US

[Eric Sharkey]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Gary Buhrmaster
<gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Ken Mandelberg <km at mathcs.emory.edu> wrote:
> .....
>> It makes me wonder if there is a fee based service
>
> I am sure that it is possible (I think Dish (or is it DirectTV?) that
> does the same thing with humans) for such a service to
> exist.

I'm curious how they do it on a technical level.  They can't do it
purely on sending back a cut list based just on the clock, could they?
 Variations on local time clocks and broadcaster clocks would skew
this enough to be noticeable, I'd expect.

Eric