From Buzz Bruggeman comes an email pointing to Big Marv’s site where there are instructions on how to enable the much-desired 30-second skip feature on TiVo:

Grab your TiVo remote.

Bring up any recorded program. (You have to be watching a recorded program rather than “Live TV” in order to enable the feature.)

On your TiVo remote, key in the following sequence: SELECT PLAY SELECT 30 SELECT [Note: “30” means you press the 3 and 0 buttons.]

If you’ve successfully entered the code, you should hear three “bings” in succession to inform you that you’ve successfully enabled the 30 second skip.

It works! Now the little button above the number 3 button — the one that looks like this: ->| — will skip ahead 30 seconds. Unfortunately, it no longer skips to the tick mark on the progress bar. But repeating the above procedure will restore it to its previous operation.

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