You'll also run into times when you hit 60 seconds and the ad is 30 seconds long, or 60 seconds and the ad is 90 seconds long. Again, the DVR: its buffer can let you set up as many as 20 delays of 30 seconds each, and when you see the show is back on you can hit PLAY or that command with the rotary arrow, which takes you back 8 seconds and then goes into play.

This all seems to come down to this: if the delays aren't built into the receiving equipment so that all you have to do is trigger that component, it's going to be pretty difficult to do.