You know how it is, you are watching someone do something, just ACHING to do it yourself as you KNOW you can do it better, and the person currently attempting said task obviously has no clue. They lack your Martix-esque Neo-like insight into the inner workings of jar cap/double mouse click/calling the cat/tipping large container of contents into smaller empty vessel. Well, swiftly returning to the point of this, the Tivo gets around the phenomenon of the CURSE OF THE REMOTE. This curse is when the person in control of the movie, attempts to fast forward through the commercials, and of course, never hits it correctly. Every single OTHER person on the planet, would have easily stopped the tape at the end of the commercials (even Blinky McSquinty, from the Amish community), and as the show progresses, their judgement gets harsher.
Know how some passengers have that invisible brake pedal, when they think death is imminent? This is a lesser known instance of invisible play button. Others just know they would hit EXACTLY the right spot and not worry about the hideous crime of not getting the very first frame of the next part of the show..
I'm sure I had a point somewhere to all this... Oh yes, about the Tivo. There are three speeds of fast forward, or reverse. From quick to time-travel (Chewbacca would be proud of the speed this thing gets up to). The faster you go forward or backward, the thing has a built in compensation for all of us less than perfectly at one with domestic recording equipment, and works well actually. So if you zip through a break, or preamble to a show, at light speed, when you see the show flashing past and jam on the brakes it goes back to where you WANTED to stop it. Thereby crushing aforementioned evil curse for ever!
See, technology CAN battle evil...
Nothing to do with anything but looks jolly evil don't you think?
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