CHANGE - ALL APPS - Change skip ahead to 30 seconds

Feature Type

Change to Existing Feature

Requested App Platform

All Tablo Apps

Feature Title

Change skip ahead to 30 seconds

Feature Description

Please change the skip ahead from 10 seconds to 30 seconds (leave skip back at ten seconds).

Most commercials are at least 3 minutes long. That means you have to press skip ahead 18 times to get past the commercial. When watching late night TV some commercials are over 5 minutes long. that means 30 presses of skip ahead to bypass the commercial. When I had Dish Network and Amazon Recast, they both skipped ahead 30 seconds at a time, and it was a lot easier to use.

If you want to skip ahead 10 seconds, you could skip forward 30 seconds, and skip back twice. Skipping forward through commercials is done much more frequently, so skipping ahead 30 seconds at a time would be much more useful.

I could be misremembering this…

I really don’t use the feature as described. Screenshot is Android mobile.

Whenever I’ve been watching an NFL recording and wanted to skip forward, I used the thumbnails above the progress line to advance through the recording. Snapshot is Fire Stick 4k G2.

Apple iPad is already set to 20/30:

But I’m curious why the Feature Request isn’t just to press a button to skip the commercial entirely instead of pacing through it. This is especially true for skipping commercials while viewing recordings.

It used to be a paid Legacy feature in some form.