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I suspect it's dependent on which streamer and remote (e.g. Roku, Amazon Fire) you have and which streaming service (e.g. PS Vue, Hulu Live). The short answer is it's pretty easy to skip ads. If you want detail, read on.A question for users of the live streaming services, like Hulu Live, YouTube, etc. How easy is it to skip commercials while watching shows recorded on the cloud DVR from your local station? I'm addicted to my 30-second skip button on my cable remote, although I'm NOT addicted to the high monthly bills.
EDIT: I shoulda Googled!
https://help.hulu.com/en-us/skip-commercials-cloud-dvr-recordings
I'm still interested in hearing personal feedback from users.
We have PS Vue on Rokus. With Dish satellite we had a button that advanced 30 secs and another that backed up 10 secs, we got pretty good at skipping ads. Our Roku remotes have a back button, a pause button and a FFW button. The FFW button goes 2X, 4X, 8X, etc. but we use 2X to skip ads. When you hit FFW a timer appears along the bottom. For popular prime time shows ad breaks seem to be about 3:00-3:30 minutes, so that's what we shoot for. Cable channel ad breaks can be as little as 2:00 minutes, or more. Once you get used to it, it's about the same degree of difficulty as our experiences with Comcast cable, Dish or Direct TV satellite - just different.
We have not run into any cloud DVR program we couldn't skip commercials on, makes no difference if it's a local or cable channel.
And while it’s true you can’t skip commercials on some on-demand shows, you can on others - I just skipped through an on-demand episode of The Brave to confirm. I've read that's common among all streaming services (e.g. PS Vue, Hulu Live, YouTube TV, DirecTV now, Sling), presumably that's dictated by the network, not the streaming service or streaming device.
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