No intention of subscribing to skip commercials. I can easily fast forward past them for my recordings and found the skip feature doesn’t work 100% of the time depending on channel and/or program that is playing.
That is a fair response and I think Nuvyyo anticipated that only a portion of the user base would pay.
You have the choice. I chose to pay because the amount is insignificant - to me - and feature works -for me- about 95% + of the time. I do not need 100% performance for that amount of money.
Now if they increase the price signficantly over time I will reevaluate its value.
Wow… can’t believe this horse ain’t dead yet 
It’s 20 bucks. Spend it… or don’t… and get on to important things. I spent it. I use the feature.
Then I stopped thinking about it and got my Restricted Radio Operator permit and bought a new a VHF radio for the boat. And worked on building that new dining table my wife wants (though she can’t seem to make up her mind what she wants the table top to look like…).
twenty… dollars… yes?.. no?.. done
great! Now go kiss your wife and/or kids or take your dog for a walk and throw a stick or ball or something.
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I won’t be subscribing, primarily because I moved last summer and am unable to receive all the network broadcasts. Whereas before, I was able to get ABC/CBS/NBC/PBS/TheCW/Fox, at my new location, I can only get CBS & ABC. The others are behind a tall mountain. What’s nice is, there is still a lot of value for me as my most-watched broadcast networks are those 2, allowing me to conserve data and helping me to remain well within my data cap. So, auto-commercial skip doesn’t have as much value for me as it once did. For me, the $20/year would probably have been worth it if I were getting all the networks, and tho free would have been nice, I understand the additional costs incurred by Nuvyyo and their reasoning behind making it an optional, value added feature.
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OK, I changed my mind and subscribed. $20/yr is peanuts and it is a convenient feature. Hopefully it gets to the point of not cutting off the tag and previews/credits of a program.
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I did subscribe. Come renewal time, we’ll re-evaluate. Hopefully it’s working nearly 100% by then. Right now I don’t think it’s much better than 30%.
And with the date looming, I have now signed up. For the amount of shows we watch and this works properly well worth it. Now when I watch on other services like philo and click through to fast forward it feels kinda annoying.
Funny thing is: this is essentially what Tivo is doing now!
I never even got to beta test the commercial skip because we use the cloud dvr and commercial skip was never and still isn’t available for my usage. I never thought it was part of my lifetime guide subscription. I suppose I understand why some people had that misconception, but even in the forums and everywhere I read it was always described as beta, and was never stated it would be free once out of beta.
My only concern is will those who are solely cloud dvr users (and thus never got to try out commercial skip) get to trial the commercial skip for free for a short time once it becomes available on cloud dvr?
Not at this time. No fussy-fit about the price or payment play. Function to price is minimal to be concerned about from my perspective.
For my, I don’t have “full speed” internet, to have it used when I may otherwise need it. I know it’s been “it being looked into” or maybe “in the works” some type of scheduling for guide data update and maintenance, particularly those on the off shifts.
If this may include commercial skip, like I could have it uploaded overnight (or even during the day when I’m at work") - sure. Me, I’m not a record and watch now. I can wait a day (actually wait for most of a season).
Beta does not mean future service fee.
Subscription
Guide data + other services.
In the Tablo settings, commercial skip detection is listed (no beta mentioned). 14 day live TV grid is listed as a beta. I guess the lifetimers we’ll be paying for the guide soon also?
The vast majority of purchasers would not know of a future charge because it was mentioned in a forum or blog.
Beta also does not mean there will be no future service fee. Beta means it’s simply being tested.
My lifetime subscription is for the guide data, and improvements and updates surrounding that is how I’ve always understood it.
I was also part of the cloud dvr beta. I never assumed it would be free once out of beta.
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That is a completely different type of beta. All subscribers get 14 days worth of guide data, but seeing all 14 days in the live TV grid is new.
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I’m in, works well enough for my purposes. At least audio doesn’t get out of synch like some of my plex recordings. But that is not pertinent.
Wife likes it because the Apple TV remote messes her up. She hits the wrong space on the pad all the time or hits the wrong button in the dark.
It works for her and for $20, it’s a small price to pay. Happy wife, happy life!
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Nope, skipping FFWD is easy enough for me. When I trialed commercial skip, I found it a bit buggy and not all that accurate. I hope Tablo isn’t counting on this as a major money maker, but I hope it helps them pay the bills for those that like it.
I won"t be subscribing to ComSkip either. Here’s Why:
- Accuracy isn’t where it should be. Seems a lot of content was cutoff too.
- Commercials still present after ripping and sending to Plex.
- I am already fighting for bandwidth, late nights / early morning, by competing with the other windows machines in our abode.
- My old 4 Tuner is running all four nearly all day. I have doubts it can take on much more.
- I’m a cheap ass. Seriously, after my post processing rips with Plex as destination, I am not archiving commercials.
- Rarely do we record ota anymore. Just do a lot of live watching in background.
- Tablo thought Superbowl was 17 hours long…And still didn’t start when it should have (Not a tuner availability issue either). And I am going to subscribe to a service that is based on timing intervals measured in seconds?
- Perhaps, as mentioned already, if could shift upload data to another time…And
- Give us some sort of ability to edit the time that was sliced in order to reconstitute the program with more accurate commercial time removed.
- Open API up for us to do our own skips.
Until then…Nope, Nope, Nope.
I guess I qualify as an edge case because I got my quad right before Christmas and I never got billed until ComSkip was active, so for me, I am paying $7 per month for both and since I have great signal and an internal SATA (I bought a 2TB FireCuda “accelerated” drive - works great!), my ComSkip experience has been excellent and I have very few shows not processed, probably less than 5% and that got cut in half when the beta ended and the servers were not being assaulted by 10x (100x?) the quantity.
I would prefer to have a lifetime subscription, but I am paying monthly for now because I am retired w/fixed income still digging out from Christmas.
Now, surely they will figure out billing for both with one transaction saves them 30¢ of that $2? I know that I am unaware of any card processing service that doesn’t charge that per transaction and I saw two charges, one for $2 and the other one was $4.99 I think?
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I absolutely will not subscribe to an annual fee for the commercial skip feature, even if it worked perfectly 100% of the time. During the trial period it only worked successfully <50% of the time.
However, I would be willing to pay a one-time fee of $20 for a lifetime subscription to commercial skip even with it’s problematic functionality.
I have no interest in this feature. I’d prefer to have frame-slice (instead of thumbnails) for ff and rew when watching a show that is still recording. I often start watching sports an hour after they start so I can skip through commercials, and catch up by the last quarter. Lack of frame-slice or thumbnails makes this difficult. Would I pay for this? Hmm. I’ve been getting along without it, so probably not. But if I saw it in action, I might consider it, depending on how well it worked.
I always wondered why the tablo does not support frame-slice instead of thumbnails. I have a cheapo ematic tuner on my home theater projector, which allows me to pause live TV. It does not have thumbnails, but it does frame-slice nicely as I FF through commercials. And that’s a $15 ematic tuner.
Note: Frame slice is a full-frame time-slice updated a few times per second showing where you are in your FF or REW. It accounts for response time so when you hit play, it jumps back a couple seconds prior to the frame you stopped on. I like the Tablo thumbnails with recordings, but I understand this is not workable for active recordings or for live TV. Frame-slice in this scenario would be a nice compromise.
I understand they have some limitations based on the various different players based on each app/device. -diversivaction!