Commercial skipping via ShowAnalyzer coming to WTV files in May

by Ben Drawbaugh posted Apr 9th 2009 at 10:52PM

If you're like us then you've been playing with the various Windows 7 Betas. Although we really like the direction Microsoft is headed with it, some of our favorite features keep us from making the switch from Vista Media Center full time. We'd say the number one feature that keeps us living in the past is automatic commercial skipping, but earlier tonight we heard some great news. The guys at the Entertainment 2.0 podcast had the author of one of the best commercial scanning utilities on, ShowAnalyzer, and was full of useful information. The most notable part was that he's been working on supporting wtv for some time, and actually expects to have it working by May -- yes, next month. This isn't the only feature we're still waiting for though, but it sure is a big one and we're glad to know it should be ready about the same time 7 gets its first release candidate.

Filed under: Media PCs

Tags: 7MC, commercial skip, CommercialSkip, ShowAnalyzer, Windows 7, Windows Media Center, Windows7, WindowsMediaCenter

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Mike @ Apr 10th 2009 8:22AM

Hell yes! One of the last things that was keeping me from moving to Windows 7 from Vista.

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Dallas Knox @ Apr 10th 2009 8:33AM

Agreed, I think the only thing left for me would be webguide, and by the looks of the livemesh demo we have seen webguide wont be an issue much longer either.

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Jonny561201 @ Apr 10th 2009 12:46PM

After installing the TV Pack to enable viewing of Clear QAM on my media center the thing i ended up missing the most was channel skipping. I almost went back, but I am becoming spoiled on HD. Was even considering not upgrading to Win 7 due to lack of native blu-ray support, but this may just win me over!

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Kevin @ Apr 17th 2009 3:03PM

try WTV converter to convert wtv to mpeg

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