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More info?)
I usually mute the commercial when we are watching "live tv". I didn't think
about pausing the TV for a few minutes and then fast forward through the
commercial. Using "slow" also sounds like a good idea.
I guess I still could use a remote with a mute timer for those few times we
are watching another program while Tivo is recording (I have the cable input
split).
Thanks for all of the good ideas.
Tom
"Jack Ak" <akjack@excite.com> wrote in message
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> "Rich Clark" <rdclark2SPAM@TRAPcomcast.net> wrote in message
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>> "Dr. Personality" <affable@no.com.invalid> wrote in message
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>> > In article <bT9Sd.3041$DC6.1823@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>, Tom from
>> > WI <not_a_real_address@prodigy.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I looked through the www.tivocommunity.com site for a way to set the
>> >> mute
>> >> button to last 30 seconds, but couldn't find anything. Is that
>> >> possible
>> >> to
>> >> do?
>> >
>> > No. Besides, you'd mute the TV, not the TiVo.
>> >
>> >> Another alternative, is there a remote I can buy that allows for
>> >> programming
>> >> the mute button to last 30 seconds?
>> >
>> > If the TV does not natively have a way to do that, then you can't
>> > program that function.
>>
>> Well, you could use a programmable remote that can perform timed macros.
>> But
>> if you have a TiVo, why would you want to do this at all?
>>
>> RichC
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> You can mute TV sound by bringing up a TiVo menu other than the program
> guide.
> All menus will timeout after several minutes and return to live
> programming.
>
> The Pause button is one way to mute live TV. We use Slow to silence
> commercials
> when at the end of the live buffer.
>
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