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How to skip adverts on Sky Plus?

  • 28-12-2006 05:03PM
    #1
    Johnny Storm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,993 ✭✭✭


    I understand that on a TiVo there is a button you can press that skips ahead 3 minutes so that you can just skip over the adverts.
    Is there anything similar on Sky Plus?


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  • #2
    JohnC.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭JohnC.


    No. You just have to put up with pressing the Fast Forward button.


  • #3
    DMC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,726 ✭✭✭✭DMC


    And at x30 speed, the fast forward isn't too painful, I feel.


  • #4
    Johnny Storm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,993 ✭✭✭Johnny Storm


    DMC wrote:
    And at x30 speed, the fast forward isn't too painful, I feel.
    You're obviously not as lazy as me ;)


  • #5
    The Sparrow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,614 ✭✭✭The Sparrow


    You don`t have to just fast forward, you can skip forward the desired amount of time. When your watching a recorded programme and and ad break starts just press back up and it brigs you back to the planner screen with the programme you were watching highlighted. Press Select and it will tell you what time you left it when you last viewed and just type three or four minutes ahead and et voila bye bye ads and it takes less time then fast forwarding!:D


  • #6
    Johnny Storm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,993 ✭✭✭Johnny Storm


    I'll try that! Thanks ;)


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  • #7
    Linford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 432 ✭✭Linford


    woooo232 wrote:
    You don`t have to just fast forward, you can skip forward the desired amount of time. When your watching a recorded programme and and ad break starts just press back up and it brigs you back to the planner screen with the programme you were watching highlighted. Press Select and it will tell you what time you left it when you last viewed and just type three or four minutes ahead and et voila bye bye ads and it takes less time then fast forwarding!:D

    The 6-8 seconds of fast forwarding is faster than doing your method I think, also some stations like the sky channels have longer ad breaks than the likes of RTE, not to mention tv3's 8 minute ad breaks!


  • #8
    Johnny Storm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,993 ✭✭✭Johnny Storm


    I'm going to try wooo232's method. IMHO holding down the fast forward button is a PIA because you have to watch teh ads as they whiz by and (in my case anyway) usually overshoot and then end up seaching backwards for the start of the programme.


  • #9
    The Sparrow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,614 ✭✭✭The Sparrow


    Linford wrote:
    The 6-8 seconds of fast forwarding is faster than doing your method I think, also some stations like the sky channels have longer ad breaks than the likes of RTE, not to mention tv3's 8 minute ad breaks!

    I don`t think it is! it is much quicker to just skip forward three or four minutes than fast forward especially as I almost always go too fast and end up having to rewind a bit too. And you get to know the length of ad breaks on each channel so you know how long to jump forward.


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