What do you know that I don't know? (Other than tact?)

Ooops... sorry. I mis-spoke. You press the FF button once and you get 3x normal speed. Press it a second time and you have 20x speed. Press it a third time and you are at 60x. So instead of press-and-hold, you press it three times quickly. Then when you see you are past the commercial break, either press it a fourth time, or press the play button and TiVo will revert to normal speed, having backed up a fixed amount to compensate for the lag in your perception of normal programming and the pressing of the button.

This is for the Sony branded TiVo and remote. I don't know whether the Philips unit operates the same way, although I suspect that it does.

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