How does the Tivo commercial skip work?

Question

Ok so im very intrested into exacley how the tivo commercial skip thing works? is it a form of time slip ? and exacley when does the unit start to get the buffer up on the tvshow you are watching? Thanks.

Answer 1

Most dvr's and tivo's skip forward in 30 second increments when you push the skip button.  A majority of commercials are 30 seconds so it works well, but often times it's either a few seconds early or late.