[thakoppno]

> sit through 22 minutes of mind-numbing commercials

Commercial detection and skipping has worked well for me via MythTV for nearly twenty years at this point.

Seems like there’s a free startup idea in there somewhere. $100 worth of equipment and a webapp and now your parents can watch network TV, local news, sports, and weather without ads.

[chrisseaton]

How can you skip the commercial in a live broadcast?

[thakoppno]

You can’t skip live without a time machine. You can disable the audio and replace the video. Alternatively, you start the game 22 minutes / hour late. It’s all about trade-offs but attention is being under-valued imho.

[woobar]

Pause -> get a snack/bathroom break -> fast forward.