Unskippable ads in PVR

[bdobson]

I had a fair backlog on my PVR and was just getting to some of my most recent recordings and found ads that cannot be fast-forwarded through. Sure, it's a few but I see this as an unacceptable trend, I use a PVR to avoid all ads. By inserting ads which you cannot skip you remove a great deal of the value and push people more to dumping cable all together and just going streaming.

[rstra]

Which PVR do you have? Are you able to fast forward the show portion of the recording? Are you able to pause or rewind? 

[bdobson]

I have the first Blue Sky PVR (not the new 4K wireless one)

I can pause, rewind and many commercials you can fast forward through but there are a few, scattered around (the first was a Shaw ad no less) that puts up a small dialogue box stating this portion cannot be fast-forwarded. It's not an inability, it's there's new ads which cannot be fast-forwarded through, which is, again, unacceptable.

[rstra]

That happens to me once in a while, and I have had to power cycle to fix it. Some on demand content cannot be skipped, but that is normal. 

[bdobson]

These are just standard television shows I'm taping, nothing on demand at all. I've never seen this before.

[rstra]

Are you able to tell me what you are recording, I will try recording it myself?

[bdobson]

This happened on the latest Harley Quinn and Batmwoman. In the recent cases they were unskippable Shaw ads.... Which makes it worse.

[rstra]

Thanks, I will see if it works for me. 

[robmann]

I have had this happen a few times also. When I looked at this closer I noticed that while I clicked on it to play from the PVR it showed that it was loading an "on demand" version, not the PVR.

Try as I might it refused to play the PVR version. I did a "System refresh" and I didn't have the issue afterward.