In the year 2025, as Tablo 4K’s domination continues in the marketspace. Subscriber’s to Nuvyyo’s Premium Virtual Cloud Aggregate Green Service have noticed that commercial skip won’t skip over Nuvyyo’s own commercials.
I have pointed this out in the past…
I have long pointed out the box clearly states the internet is needed to download guide data and out of home streaming. If I opt out of guide data and view in house… then presumably I shouldn’t need internet for basic function.
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Unfortunately between it not working a high enough % of the time, and us not watching enough network TV, I just don’t think it is worth it at this time.
Seems like a penalty to the Lifetime Subscribers. I’ve already prepaid for an equivalent of 3 years. Yet we pay the same as annuals. Right now I can’t even use my subscription because of some bug in the system. ( My subscription shows on the TabloTV Account page, yet not on my device. Thus cancelling my scheduled recordings.) The CS is working ~75%, by my experience. I’ve had to rewind to view parts of the show erroneously marked as commercials and also not marking real commercials. I really hate companies moving the goal posts in the middle of the game. Bad show!
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Maybe they could keep commercial skip free if they made it ad supported?
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4 recordings I watched last night, commercial skip failed for various reasons.
Now that would be an interesting twist…we will remove the network provided ads, in exchange for OUR ads…but, to deliver our ads you will need to have an active internet connection…
And then we can pay an extra fee to remove those ads… 
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We’re on the fence. Many times we smile and praise Tablo while enjoying hands free C-skip and $20/yr sounds reasonable.
Unfortunately, it’s not flawless or without frequent failures. And I do know how blood pressure climbs when paying good money for “kinda works”.
There’s also the “creep” factor in which some entity/company has direct access to and unfettered use of my viewing data. I’ve not let that bother me since I was getting something in return.
However, levying a monetary “charge” will likely change how I feel about “freely” sharing this personal private information.
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@Dasher
Mine too…Chicago pd, Fire, Med…
Also, I no longer have commercial skip as a option under fast live tv start up in settings…and all my commercial skip previous recording’s with check marks are all gone…I have no selection to turn it on or off …suddenly
I’m a lifelong subscriber…why Did I suddenly lose all commercial skip check marks next to all recordings
I thought the new subscription wasn’t going to be implemented until first week in February
Edit.
I just paid the $20 and now all my check marks are back and commercial skip
Is now back functional…all my last night and previous recordings are all
back to normal …phew
I know it has not been flawless but I just subscribed and I am willing to support the service. At $20/year it is a no brainer.
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No I don’t need it. I heard Tablo Ripper does not like recordings that went through Commercial Skip. If true, that’s a deal breaker. We have enjoyed nearly five years of pretty much trouble free Tablo viewing and I think a part of that good fortune is having it setup with basic/default settings, and yes we’re absolutely satisfied with those settings. My wife loves Tablo and has no trouble skipping through commercials.
For some reason now that they announced the new pricing it is not working at all. It was far from perfect but I’m assuming they will make better. It is worth $20 a year.
I use Tablo Ripper daily and then manually edit out commercials from programs I want to keep. Mainly older programs that I then transfer to Plex for future viewing.
I turn commercial skip off and on daily so that only prime time shows are processed for commercial skip, but some of the older shows I want to keep are broadcast during prime time and I’ve never had a problem with Tablo Ripper ripping a show that has been processed for commercial skip.
The only thing I have noticed is that the resulting Tablo Ripper file size of shows that have been processed for commercial skip can be 25 to 50% larger than shows that weren’t processed. Once I edit out the commercials and produce my edited version, the file size is back to the same size as shows that weren’t processed for commercial skip.
I probably won’t subscribe either, mainly because commercial skip is far from perfect and for a service that I am paying for, I expect at least 95% perfect or near perfect results. Currently commercial skip is only working maybe 75% of the time and of those programs that are processed, only 10% are processed close to being correct. Hopefully @TabloTV will take note and improve the process so that one day I might try it again.
No, I will not be subscribing to it. My thumbs still work. I paid for the lifetime subscription thinking that upgrades would be included, I was wrong. I just read that within 5 years a new TV tuner standard will be enacted (ATSC 3.0) this could make the Tablo a doorstop as a tuner box will need to be added to use the device or will Tablo offer an upgrade for $ even though you have a lifetime subscription? Time will tell. Tablo don’t go down the road of the cable companies. We know what is happening there.
No, you weren’t wrong. Firmware upgrades (which happen several times a year) continue to be free, and they add functionality and improve the device.
Anyone who has been on these forums for a while has known that a fee for commercial skip was likely. The Tablo folks didn’t hide that fact. Since it uses extra servers separate from the rest, that just makes sense, just like they charge extra for Cloud DVR.
As for ATSC 3.0, that will eventually make current Tablos obsolete, but that happens to all technology. If I get 10 years out of my Tablo, that means it was an awesome product that saved me a ton of money. I do expect an ATSC 3.0 Tablo in the next five years, which is perfectly fine.
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I was on the fence and decided I could live without commercial skip, especially as many have said it is far from perfect. However, my wife wants it so you can probably guess what we plan to do . Oh, and we are getting a dog in the spring too. I love dogs but I work from home and I don’t look forward to managing a puppy while I work, but I digress…
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It seemed very clear to me from the box and all of their articles and posts, that commercial skip was going to be fee-based once it exited beta.
The only question was the cost. I’m coming from the TiVo world, so to me $20 a year seems like a steal. TiVo had a crowd-sourced based skip feature only for primetime shows, that worked well, but also wasn’t 100%, either. And TiVo was $16 a month!
If Tablo is still in business in a couple of years, they’ll have to release an ATSC 3.0 product. I’m not sure why anyone would doubt that.
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That’s correct but there was an issue with our servers that may have caused your subscription status to be lost temporarily. Hitting REFRESH in the settings screen would have resolved the issue.
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I’m new to Tablo and just recently bought the lifetime subscription thinking commercial skip was a part of the subscription. I was very frustrated when they made this new announcement two days after I had already bought the subscription. This leaves a poor taste in my mouth and a distrust with the company. I would like to see how the CS will work on mobile devices but we won’t be able to do so unless we pay!! I can’t even try it out for a month since they only allow lifetime sub to add it for a year vs paying monthly. I think that’s ridiculous as well!!
I think they need to add CS back for lifetime sub OR at the very least allow us the monthly payment option. If it works well on a mobile device I could maybe, just maybe, talk myself into considering it but for now…it’s not likely.