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College Football and 30 second skip - Greatest Invention of all time
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Posted by: lsuwest

As a new, month old Tivo owner, I just programmed my 'jump to end' button to '30 second skip'. All I can say is that combined with a Tivo'd college football game, it is fantastic!

I watched and Tivo'd my 3rd ranked LSU tigers beat Ole Miss yesterday. Last night, I was able use the skip button to jump from play to play with about 90% accuracy. Had to use the 6(or 5?) second rewind button a few times. All I can say is thank you Tivo (and GEAUX TIGERS!)

Posted by: JPriller

My wife calls this "Turbo football" and it drives her nuts. She likes hearing the commentary between plays, and I do find I miss some stuff like injury updates.

But yeah, go Tigers! You guys have our former head coach and your quarterback used to play single-A baseball a couple miles down the road. :)

Posted by: tfederov

I didn't realize Lansing had an "A" team. Have they been around long? I used to live in Saginaw and didn't know that we had any minor league ball around.

P.S. After reading the HH threads, you guys gonna pull for the Wolverines in the Rose Bowl? :D

Posted by: JPriller

Lansing Lugnuts, single-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs, they've been in Lansing since 1996. Matt Mauck played 1st base and catcher for us in 1999 and 2000.

Me rooting for UM depends on who they play. I've been trying to think of some team I dislike enough, but so far nothing's come to mind.

Posted by: tfederov

LOL... fair enough...:D

Posted by: ccwf

I think I heard “TiVo” mentioned by broadcasters in association with college football three times Saturday (once during a pre-game, once during another game, and once on SportsCenter, I think).

Posted by: lfrazier

By using the 30 sec skip between plays, and using it to skip commercials you can knock out a game pretty fast. I also use my TIVO, for example, to record one game while I watch my Washington State Cougars lose to the UW Huskies for the sixth year in a row live. :(

Posted by: HDTiVo

I can watch an NFL game in about 1hr. I interleave a simultaneous live game with a TiVoed one when two are on at once by flicking between Ant and TiVo inputs.

Posted by: debest

I have to agree...watching a football game this way is a huge time saver. I just got finished watching the Ducks beat my alma mater...the Fighting Beavers. However, if the Beavers won (I knew the final score before I watched the game)...I probably wouldn't have skipped over as much...

Posted by: Peter000

I don't know... to me, Football is a "live" event. Watching it recorded is like watching sports highlights on the news. The score at the end is the most important thing, and unless something REALLY spectacular happened during the game (which would be covered in highlights anyway), I don't care how they got there.

Posted by: tfederov

Yeah Peter, I think I agree with you on this one..... Sports is the only exception when recording TV. This is where the "pause live TV" is a godsend (bathroom breaks, rude people that don't realize that football is on but call you anyway and want to talk for hours). If I'm going to record sports, it would be too tempting to jump online and find out the results.

Posted by: Slider10

I agree that this is great. While my sport is Hockey, the 30 second skip is a godsend for me and the constant stoppages in play.

Posted by: MacRocker

I think I saw a whole NFL game in about 45 mins today, if you hit it just right you can get the start of every play. But I think you need to set some extra time at the end of the recording in case the game runs long.

Posted by: barrettd

I grew up in Oklahoma City, and if I remember correctly, on Sunday mornings they used to replay the previous day's Sooners game, skipping everything between plays. It was great, because you still got all the action, but the game took about an hour to watch. I do love using Tivo to watch games, though I usually watch them live.

BD

Posted by: TerpBE

If you use the 30 second skip, you sometimes go a little too far, and end up seeing part of the play before skipping back 8 seconds.

What I do is, when a play is over, hit the 8-second back key and then the 30 second skip. This way, you skip ahead 24 seconds, and almost never see part of a play before you want to.

Posted by: Slider10

quote:
Originally posted by TerpBE
If you use the 30 second skip, you sometimes go a little too far, and end up seeing part of the play before skipping back 8 seconds.

What I do is, when a play is over, hit the 8-second back key and then the 30 second skip. This way, you skip ahead 24 seconds, and almost never see part of a play before you want to.

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh! GREAT IDEA!!!! :up: :up: :up:

Posted by: smark

Wouldn't that be 22 seconds?

Posted by: BBQ Chicken

Add me to the list of people who love this, I have 2 Dtivo's with dual tuner so we watch 8 entire games on sunday without missing a play. I will never go back, I just watched tonights MNF game in 40 minutes.

Posted by: HDTiVo

Dang, my personal record is 48 min. I'll have to try a lot harder to hit macrocker's 45 and then reach for the 40 min record!!!

Posted by: phone1

This is the only way to watch football IMO. We record it (well padded) and start watching about an hour in. Our only regret is not being able to watch Georgia football and listen to Larry Munson's call on the radio. With cable and our SA, I could split the inputs and record it this way, but alas, not with a DTiVo. We could do it live, but no way I'm going back to that.

Posted by: HDTiVo

So what is the theoretical minimum time to watch each of the major sports, college and pro, assuming you want to see all the action?

:)

Posted by: EricRobins

And for baseball its even better. It seems there is about 30 seconds between batters and almost exactly 2 mins (i.e., 4x30 secs) for every commercial break. I have also discovered that whenever the ball is hit foul there is another 30 sec. break.

Unfortunately, I have not found any way to siginificantly speed up college basketball.

Posted by: jcaesar625

I rthink I remember a few years back CBS got in trouble for showing NFL games TIVO like. The games weren't quite live sometimes. They were squeezing in more commercials, and then they would use the dead time between plays to catch up. Pretty smart if you ask me.

Posted by: TerpBE

"Wouldn't that be 22 seconds?"

Yeah, 30-8=22. Brain wasn't working.

Posted by: bakerx3

I use TiVo for college basketball as well. Can watch a game in 45 to 50 minutes. The 30 second skip doesn't really apply but I find myself FFing (at 3x) through free throws (you can still see if they go in) and while the ball is being dribbled up the court. If I'm in a hurry, I'll FF until the first pass is made in the set offense. I think it is a great way to watch a game.

Posted by: scottjf8

quote:
Originally posted by JPriller
But yeah, go Tigers! You guys have our former head coach and your quarterback used to play single-A baseball a couple miles down the road. :)

JP - are you like me, rooting for an LSU/Michigan Rose Bowl, so it can be hyped as Lloyd Carr v. Nick Saban..

Posted by: scottjf8

quote:
Originally posted by HDTiVo
So what is the theoretical minimum time to watch each of the major sports, college and pro, assuming you want to see all the action?

:)

I can watch a Pistons (NBA) game in an hour if it's 100% recorded... Timeouts are either FULL (which is a few commercials) or 20 seconds (which in theory is more like 35-40 seconds until the game restarts).. plus skip halftime and I can do it in an hour.

Hockey sucks now that they sped up the time between stoppages of play and faceoffs... it used to be almost 30 seconds, but after the olympics last year, they cut it to 10-15 seconds... I can 30 sec skip but miss the faceoff..

Posted by: dcheesi

I've tried 1xFF for soccer; if you're an attention-deprived American like me, it shortens the time between goals, and you can always return to normal speed when your side is near the goal. Unfortunately you miss the crowd noise and commentary as well as some of the natural rhythm of the game.

BTW, for NFL I find that straight 30s-skip usually works, but with college I need to use the back-forward technique a lot more. I'm not sure why this is (are the play clocks different?).

Posted by: Y2K Falcon

This is the single reason I hate the no-huddle offense. :mad:

Posted by: bakerx3

Yep. Playclocks are different. In the NFL, the playclock starts immediately at the end of the play and is 40 seconds. In college, the playclock starts upon signal from the ref and is 25 seconds.

I find the 30 sec skip is good for either if you hit it right after the player is down (PS2 skills not required :)

Posted by: HDTiVo

I find football has the best time compression ratio: 3+:1

Basketball is harder. It takes me 1:15 to watch well a 2:30 game or about 2:1.

I don't have enough experience with baseball, but its a very variable game timewise.

Hockey I don't watch on TV. (or TiVo!) Maybe when HDTV comes (to me)