Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!

On 6/24/08 10:34 AM, in article
labolide-8BF43A.08340224062008@news.giganews.com, "Kurt"
<labolide@spacegmail.com> wrote:

> In article <C48446C9.9D41%ghost_topper@hotmail.com>,
> George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 6/22/08 11:59 AM, in article
>> O4Wdna-tnuJwGcPVnZ2dnUVZ_jadnZ2d@comcast.com, "George"
>> <george@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> EskWIRED@spamblock.panix.com wrote:
>>>> In alt.cellular.verizon Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:
>>>>> EskWIRED@spamblock.panix.com wrote in news:g3kek1$hn8$2@reader2.panix.com:
>>>>
>>>>>> In alt.cellular.verizon Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I believe in response to heavy pressure from the advertisers, cable
>>>>>>> company tivo equipment is already hobbled to prevent ad bypassing.
>>>>>>> Users must get their own unhobbled units....just like SELLPHONES!
>>>>>> Wrong.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I guess you are right and all these guys are crazy:
>>>>
>>>> I didn't look at the cites. Instead, I glanced over my shoulder at
>>>> my brand-new, fresh from the cable company DVR. It allows skipping
>>>> forward and back, and you can set the time interval from ten seconds to a
>>>> few minutes for each. I set the Forward for 30 seconds, and the back for
>>>> 10. The feature is designed specifically to zap commercials.
>>>
>>> Actually that feature is designed to skip back and forth by whatever
>>> increment you set. Commercial skipping is a different thing. I have a
>>> DVR I built that uses opensource software and it runs a commercial
>>> detection job after the recording and makes a table of jump points. You
>>> can program it to edit out the commercials by itself or just hit a
>>> button on the remote which skips over the commercial whether it is 11
>>> seconds or 4 minutes 11 seconds long.
>>>
>>
>> ReplayTV? It runs circles around TIVO. Too bad it was bought by DirecTV and
>> shelved.
>
> Tivo was great with DirecTV, it's DirecTV's crappy branded version
> that's the problem.

"Tivo was great with DirecTV"

What?!?

Two different things altogether...