ReplayTVBlog » TiVo Hacks http://www.replaytvblog.com The World of DVR's with a ReplayTV Slant Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:57:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 How To Add A 30 Second Skip Button To Your TiVo http://www.replaytvblog.com/2006/04/17/how-to-add-a-30-second-skip-button-to-your-tivo/ http://www.replaytvblog.com/2006/04/17/how-to-add-a-30-second-skip-button-to-your-tivo/#comments Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:55:36 +0000 site admin http://www.replaytvblog.com/2006/04/17/how-to-add-a-30-second-skip-button-to-your-tivo/ One of the features that I love the most about my ReplayTV is the one I thought I would miss most on a TiVo — the ability to hit a button to skip ahead 30 seconds. It makes skipping through TV commercials so fast and easy that I go nuts when I use my Comcast DVR that doesn’t have it. Well it turns out that there is a hack that will enable a 30 second skip button on the TiVo Remote!

To enable the 30 second skip on your TiVo, you first have to start watching a recorded program on your TiVo. While watching the program, press the following buttons in this order on your TiVo Remote:

Select, Play, Select, 3, 0, Select

After correctly entering this sequence of buttons, you will hear three of the famous TiVo boing sounds that will indicate that you have enabled the 30 second skip.

To use the 30 second skip on your TiVo, all you have to do is press the skip button on the remote. It is the button that looks like an arrow pointing to the right with a line next to it. It kind of looks like this:

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That’s all there is to it. Now, every time you press the skip button on your TiVo, it will automatically advance 30 seconds. You will have to reprogram this hack after any reboot of your TiVo — such as after a power outage or a TiVo software update is installed. If you ever want to remove the 30 second skip, just enter the codes the exact same way and that will disable it.

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