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"You can use their cloud DVR to "record" something, and after that happens, you can fast forward through the commercials." Has this changed? When I tried YouTu

by jerf 6y ago

"You can use their cloud DVR to "record" something, and after that happens, you can fast forward through the commercials." Has this changed? When I tried YouTubeTV a couple of years ago, you could record things to the DVR, and sometimes not only would they not let you fast forward through the commercials, they replaced them with their own completely un-fast-forwardable commercials. Sometimes it would let you fast forward as normal though. This is what caused me to drop the subscription immediately.

kschwab 6y ago
I have not had that problem. But, you do have to specifically wait for the actual air time to come and go before you're able to play it with fast-forward capability. Once that's done, I've never had an issue with fast-forward. The UI does differentiate between "recorded" and "on-demand" content. What I have run into: - Something I recorded is no longer available, I assume because some contract expired. - Something that's immediately available as on-demand isn't scheduled to air "Live". I can still click the thing that says to record it, but it never airs and so never records. That's pretty rare, but it's happened.
wjamesg 6y ago
Even if you ‘record’ something to your YouTube TV DVR, if there is an on-demand (with ads) version available from the network, your DVR recorded version will be replaced and you will be forced to watch the on-demand (with unskippable ads) version
- kschwab 6y ago
  I can't reproduce that. I wonder if it's on some specific channels.
- jvolkman 6y ago
  Maybe it depends on the channel, but in my experience you can pick which version you want to watch. Take this screenshot from SNL for example: https://i.imgur.com/s7eCDi8.png https://i.imgur.com/s7eCDi8.png There are 3 versions currently available to me for S46 E16: two DVR and one VOD. If I select either of the two DVR versions, I can skip commercials as expected. The VOD version forces me to watch commercials (also as expected, I guess).

by jerf 6y ago

kschwab 6y ago

I have not had that problem. But, you do have to specifically wait for the actual air time to come and go before you're able to play it with fast-forward capability. Once that's done, I've never had an issue with fast-forward. The UI does differentiate between "recorded" and "on-demand" content. What I have run into: - Something I recorded is no longer available, I assume because some contract expired. - Something that's immediately available as on-demand isn't scheduled to air "Live". I can still click the thing that says to record it, but it never airs and so never records. That's pretty rare, but it's happened.

wjamesg 6y ago

Even if you ‘record’ something to your YouTube TV DVR, if there is an on-demand (with ads) version available from the network, your DVR recorded version will be replaced and you will be forced to watch the on-demand (with unskippable ads) version

kschwab 6y ago
I can't reproduce that. I wonder if it's on some specific channels.
jvolkman 6y ago
Maybe it depends on the channel, but in my experience you can pick which version you want to watch. Take this screenshot from SNL for example: https://i.imgur.com/s7eCDi8.png https://i.imgur.com/s7eCDi8.png There are 3 versions currently available to me for S46 E16: two DVR and one VOD. If I select either of the two DVR versions, I can skip commercials as expected. The VOD version forces me to watch commercials (also as expected, I guess).