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Yesterday Nielson released some new findings regarding how likely PVR users are to watch commercials. Well today is a new day and with that Chris Lanier has given us a quick run-through of what needs to be done to activate automatic commercial skipping in Media Center. Take that Nielson ...

The main ingredient for this tasty treat is the good old DVRMSToolbox application which can be found here. During installation there is actually an option that you can check off which tells it to automatically skip commercials. By checking this off, you will be prompted about whether you want Commercial Skip to process the show when you start to view recorded content.

As Chris points out, it will actually take the program between about 5-8 minutes to scan through the recording and process the commercials. This usually isn't too big of a deal though since the time from when the show starts (excluding opening scenes) to the first commercial break is usually past that time range.

For those of you using Vista, Chris pointed to a post over at Missing Remote with details on how to get Commercial Skip to play nice with Media Center.