[mythtv-users] Slightly OT - MythTV wins again!

[TimP]

On 2022-05-26 16:02, Mike Perkins wrote:
> Curious. Here in the UK we have an old YouView box, originally
> provided by BT, which does our version of Freeview plus anything else
> BT cares to let down the wires (upon payment, of course). Oddly,
> considering its age, the software is kept reasonably up-to-date.
> 
> The box has Fast Forward and Rewind but also has Skip Forward and Skip
> Back, though there appears to be no way to set the skip times.

It probably predates the discovery by Freeview Marketing of what skip 
actually means. As an embedded system, it may not have the power to do 
fast-forward, and the engineers that built it would have put skip in as 
that is relatively simple, and they would not have cared about the 
advertisers precious output being discarded.
Cheers,
Tim.