ReplayTV Removes Ad Skipping Feature

Under pressure to survive after emerging from bankruptcy, ReplayTV has decided to bow to the wims of big media. In their latest version of the personal video recorder, the ad skipping and send a program to a friend features will be removed.

But, will they really be removed or just “turned off” and how long before a hack is circulating around the web that will again enable the ad skipping function as there now is for TiVo? [via NYT (sub req)]

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