Ok, this is a simple life hack, if you have a DVR that lets you "pause" TV, here's what you can do to make the most of it. If you're watching a half-hour show, you wait for when it airs, say it airs at 5:00, you "pause" the TV at 5:00 and then wait 8 minutes. So you start watching it at 5:08, that way there's a delay that lets you skip over —all of the commercial breaks during the show.— If it's a one-hour show, then you do the same, except you wait 16 minutes instead of 8.
I won't explain why this works unless I'm asked because I don't want to seem like a know-it-all.
