{"id":1530,"date":"2013-09-20T11:28:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T18:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2013-09-20T11:28:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T18:28:46","slug":"taming-the-hurry-up-offense-tivo-18-second-skip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2013\/09\/taming-the-hurry-up-offense-tivo-18-second-skip\/","title":{"rendered":"Taming the Hurry-up Offense: TiVo &#8220;18-second Skip&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years we have been promoting the 30-second skip built into the TiVo through a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaknees.com\/30\">backdoor<\/a>. Not to be outdone, DIRECTV also tucked a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaknees.com\/hr20-tips.php\">similar trick into it&#8217;s HD DVRs<\/a>. The 30-second skip is great for skipping through commercials. It is also fantastic for blitzing through football games. From the end of one down to the next snap, it&#8217;s often remarkably close to 30 seconds. Watching football with your finger on the skip button gets you through games pretty darned quickly.<\/p>\n<p>With the rise of the hurry-up offense, though, the 30-second skip is essentially useless (unless you don&#8217;t mind missing every other play). I personally don&#8217;t watch much pro football, but I do watch a decent amount of Pac-12 games (and am NOT happy with DIRECTV and the Pac-12 Network, but that&#8217;s another story). Washington, Cal and others are jamming plays in every 12-18 seconds, making the 30-second skip useless.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying I have a miracle cure for this situation, and my solution isn&#8217;t all that earth-shattering, but it does work. I use a combination of the instant-replay button and the 30-second skip to create my own 18-second skip and, if necessary, 12-second skip. Instant Replay (IR) is a 6-second rewind, so IR+IR+30-second skip=18-second skip, and obviously IR+IR+IR+30=12-second skip. It takes a bit of extra time to go back 6+6+6, but it&#8217;s less than watching 12 seconds on annoying commentary.<\/p>\n<p>Go Bears!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years we have been promoting the 30-second skip built into the TiVo through a backdoor. Not to be outdone, DIRECTV also tucked a similar trick into it&#8217;s HD DVRs. The 30-second skip is great for skipping through commercials. It is also fantastic for blitzing through football games. From the end of one down to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1531,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}