i bought my mom a lifetime tivo a few years back and she STILL forgets to fast-forward ads. if she even knew how to use video on demand (she has it but its 'too complicated') she would probably watch the ads even if she could fast forward them. alot of people (not the ones who are on blogs, particularly not tv squad) are so used to ads that they dont mind as much as i would - not that its a good thing just seems to be the case. as long as tivo doesn't start punking me out to the networks/directv i'm sticking with it.

I've been catching up on the entire first season of Jericho on CBSs site, and the ads they have don't really bother me, because it's usually only a 15 or 30 second ad as opposed to 3 or 4 minutes of commercials. No worse than what I'd have to do if fastforwarding the DVR.

Agree with Lisa - if you want to DVR a show u can ff thru commercials, but if you want ABC to cater to your needs and keep your DVR free for other shows there should be SOME type of give on our side - If I know I can access LOST or other ABC shows (don't watch many sorry), then I know I don't have waste space on my cheap, old, crappy, way to small a disc space DVR Comast "gives me" for 14.00 per month....but that is for a different area.

Thanks ABC I say

Eh, seems like a good deal to me. I'll just mute it on the commercials and read blogs for a few minutes, no biggie and not a bad trade for shows I'd otherwise have to download to see anywhere close to the original air date.

I will not sit through adverts any more, or accept interruptions in my programming unless I cause them - sorry, I'm just too used to torrents now.

I will continue 'illegally' downloading myshows until the day I can legally buy Divxs or equivalents of episodes at approx $1-2 each (meaning if I buy all the episodes of a show, they get the same as a DVD purchase with NONE of the distribution costs.)

I'd like to point out that I've not only been introduced to more shows this way (House, 24, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT(forever my favourite show), Scrubs, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sunny, Flight of the Conchords), I've also spent more money on DVDs than I would otherwise.

.. although it's reaching a turning point for me now where I much prefer the convenience of Divxs to DVDs, and may give up on the disks altogether (blue-ray can sod off!). Meanwhile I'm waiting with an open wallet for download services.

This won't interrupt live feeds that we can DVR and fast forward through will it? I am assuming that the VOD is a separate feature.

Comcast On Demand already has quite a few new tv shows on it. For example, I have access to all S4 Lost episodes for free. Not sure how if you can fast forward.