Commercial Skipping

Commercial skipping is an advanced feature in some digital video recorders that makes it possible to automatically skip commercials in recorded programs. This feature had created controversy, with major television networks and movie studios claiming it violates copyright and should be banned.

Read more about Commercial Skipping:  History, The Future of TV Advertisements

Famous quotes containing the words commercial and/or skipping:

    “It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “What a hero Tom was become now! He did not go skipping and prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger as became a pirate who felt that the public eye was on him.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)