On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:05:12PM -0400, Peter Kaczowka wrote: > In the meantime we can all skip commercials the old-fashioned way: fast-forward > the VCR, or even easier, your PVR if you have one (I don't yet). Yeah, and given a sub 13ms seek time on hard drive, fast forward is sooo cheap and easy and simple to do. For anyone who thinks that pressing a button to skip 2 or 3 minutes of TV in a few ms is too interactive, see the sirius cybernetics corporation user manual for their radios :) Some of the techniques are no doubt useful for other things though. -- Michael.
