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Topic: MediaA few days ago, I wrote about Olympics Streaming and the challenge of quickly navigating around streaming/downloaded sports programs with typical streaming or cloud DVR services.
I tend to make heavy use of "jump" buttons which skip forward or back amounts like 10, 15, 30 or 120 seconds. With a local disk DVR (and some very good streaming ones) this is done with super fast response time and a live preview, so it's easy to move around a program to what you want.
But what I did not discuss, and should, is just what do you want? The most common thing is to skip commercials, and some DVRS (typically those not under control of networks or cable providers) offer automatic commercial skip, or a button that seeks to the end (or start) of the commercial break. They even do this on near-live recordings. The problem is that TV shows don't want you to skip commercials, and work to get this feature out of DVRs. A solution that keeps everybody happier is to pay extra for commercial-free, though some things like sports can't do this as the live event has gaps for commercials.
With sports, though, there are tons and tons of short boring gaps, and that's really obvious in the Olympics. Indeed, there are too many, which can mean a complex UI. The best simple UI is usually a button or two that skips 10 to 30 seconds, with a "back" button that skips a shorter amount of time, so you can skip forward, and if you overshoot, go back 1-2 times. But why not be exact.
In hockey, for example, I
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