I've only ever dealt with a Tivo DVR, and I have a general question about non-Tivo DVRs: Do they generally have a "Season Pass" type function that records all the new episodes of a series, and follows them around if they change times or days?
That's possibly the most useful feature to my me, personally. Though I do love the optional 30 second skip ahead feature. I actually
do watch commercials if they're new and something I'm reasonably interested in (or just a company that makes good commercials, I love the Capitol One "pillager" and the Geico "Caveman" commercials, for example).
What I
don't usually do is watch commercials if I don't care about the product, or keep watching them once they get stale, or watch the same commercial 2 or 3 times in a single commercial break, but that's a pet peeve of mine.