The ability to quick skip 3 to 4 minutes at a time is pretty snazzy, but why do you suppose it only works on recorded programs and not on programs that you are watching live but are 5 or 10 minutes delayed? I sure can't imagine any technical or logistic reason.
Hard drive recorded video is the same in either case. In both cases you are streaming video off the drive and manipulating pointers within that recorded region to navigate, so why shouldn't it work? The throughput isn't any higher than watching one recording while recording another program.
Could this be a compromise to the forces within Replay that consider sophisticated commercial skipping too daring for their image among advertisers?...That they might have accepted that giving us the ability to easily jump over a block of commercials is acceptable in a program that was recorded "in the past" (aren't they all?) but feel that having that ability within a "live" broadcast is hitting too close to home?
If that's the case then the emperor sure has a fine new set of clothes, because there isn't a significant bit of difference between those two recording methods.
Hard drive recorded video is the same in either case. In both cases you are streaming video off the drive and manipulating pointers within that recorded region to navigate, so why shouldn't it work? The throughput isn't any higher than watching one recording while recording another program.
Could this be a compromise to the forces within Replay that consider sophisticated commercial skipping too daring for their image among advertisers?...That they might have accepted that giving us the ability to easily jump over a block of commercials is acceptable in a program that was recorded "in the past" (aren't they all?) but feel that having that ability within a "live" broadcast is hitting too close to home?
If that's the case then the emperor sure has a fine new set of clothes, because there isn't a significant bit of difference between those two recording methods.
