{"id":356,"date":"2012-05-11T11:24:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T18:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/11\/commercial-skip\/"},"modified":"2012-05-11T11:27:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T18:27:38","slug":"commercial-skip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/11\/commercial-skip\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial Skip!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I just posted yesterday about my new DVR.  Well, this is big enough that it requires a separate post.<\/p>\n<p>Dish just announced (and downloaded to my DVR) a new feature:  &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2404297,00.asp\">Auto Hop<\/a>&#8220;.  This is basically automatic commercial skip.  It only works on the prime time shows recorded with &#8220;Prime Time Any Time&#8221;, and it only starts working a few hours after the programs were recorded, but then when you start playing a show you are given the option to skip commercials.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe that the networks and their advertisers will let this stand, but I&#8217;m going to enjoy it while I can.  I hate commercials and always skip them anyway, but this takes the hassle out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I just posted yesterday about my new DVR. Well, this is big enough that it requires a separate post. Dish just announced (and downloaded to my DVR) a new feature: &#8220;Auto Hop&#8220;. This is basically automatic commercial skip. It only works on the prime time shows recorded with &#8220;Prime Time Any Time&#8221;, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}