Comments on: Political ads go up against DVR tech

Is there a TiVo effect when it comes to campaign spots? For those who've had enough of mudslinging, there is.

[rcrusoe]

I know just how Christopher feels

I'm so fed up with these political ads that I wouldn't vote for either of these clowns.

At this point I've been avoiding watching any local channels with the exception of the programs I record via EyeTV on my Mac. And I spend about 5 minutes editing out all commercials before I watch them.

I'm ready to be governed by 537 people picked at random from any major airport in the country. Screw all politicians.

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[Seaspray0]

Random?

You should be proud of yourself! But, how can we vote for a random person until we get the random choice on the voting machine? I'm all for it! Woo Hoo!

This message paid for by the committee to elect "random".

[Shawn Lane]

Too Many

There are way too many political commercials on. I live in Memphis, TN and I know how Ditty feels. I fast forward through them myself. Honestly I am also tired of all the automobile commercials. No wonder GM, Ford & Chrysler are loosing money. There advertising budget must be huge. I am so glad for DVR's. I would be happy if there was never another ad on television.

[cadaver.vitae]

Most negative political ads work against the candidate

For me the negative ads from the Republican and Democrat candidates for tomorrow's election drove me to vote independent in the Texas gubernatorial race (I voted early). Both independent candidates chose not to run negative ads which also influenced my vote.

I have two DVRs in my house, and I bought one for my girlfriend, and use pause and skip often, and I am right there with Christopher on cruising past the political ads.

[furball123A]

Love my PVR/DirecTV

Living out in the middle of nowhere in Arizona & having DirecTV with the NY & LA channels to watch my network shows...I know more about politicians in those TV markets than I know about the hillbillies running out here. Since the live TV I watch is usually AMC/TCM/IFC (if I do watch live TV at all)...I don't ever see the local Arizona ads & my PVR software cut out the ones which appear from either coast.

[bobby_brady]

30 second skip, beats FFW

I don't know where I would be without Media Center. It's hooked up to my living room TV and the 30 second skip is BEAUTIFUL! It's like a fly swatter, swatting at those pesky and annoying ads.

[TV James]

"fast-forward [..] doesn't work on live TV."

If you own a DVR, why oh why are you watching anything live?

If something is appointment or watercooler, we'll watch it the night it airs, but we just start it late so that we can skip the commercials.

The only time I personally watch anything live is while I'm riding the exercise bike before work. But even then as soon as Bloomberg shows a commercial, you just flip down the row to CNN, CNNHN, CNBC, MSNBC, FOXNEWS... rarely will they all be showing simultaneous commercials.

[BeamerMT]

I wish ...

Where i live, we had nothing but political messages during the news on two of our local stations. Near the end of the broadcast, they would put in ONE and only one ad for a department store in town.

[Lord Paul]

Mute

My mute button works well for this in real time.

[larryk42]

Even my old vcr works

Mine even picks up start & end of the commercial period (most of the time) and fast forwards to the start of the next programming segment.

If they are only worried about dvr penetration they are naive.

[ColeSlaw82]

MythTV/Linux has Auto-Skip

I use my MythTV (http://www.mythtv.org/). It's a homemade DVR system that has automatic commercial detection and then automatically skips them. If you have an old ReplayTV you might have seen that feature before. It's great, because I don't even have to see a second of commercials, just uninterrupted television.

[reustle]

DVR, VHS works just fine

I am not sure if anyone is aware that even DVR systems require some sort of subcribition where as a VHS recorder dose not.

TiVo requires an internet or phone line to call back home while a VHS recorder dose not.

My point is DVR is the new stuff while the much older VHS has been doing the same thing longer and still has a bigger user base.