Is there any way to avoid TV commercials real time as you watch?
 

Most of us that live here have been watching TV commercials all our lives. In that time we've sent people to the moon, conquered some diseases, developed nuclear power, personal computers, the Internet and the list goes on. Can't somebody develop a device to eliminate TV commercials WHILE YOU WATCH that does not depend on time shifting methods (DVR)? I've seen many devices that mute the sound and I seem to remember one that substituted music during the commercials. Using your smartphone during the commercials is only a distraction and not a real solution. I notice some sports bars have a service called TAIV that apparently replaces commercials with something else. Please make some comments!

I don't think you can do it. Even if you could, there is still a gap until the show starts so you have a choice of watching a commercial or a blank screen. I usually DVR most shows - including sport shows - and start watching about 1/3 of the way through. That way, you can fast forward through commercials and you should be live late in the third quarter.

My dear wife mutes television, and reads her book during commercial breaks.
I usually get to the first commercial break, fall asleep, and miss the rest of the program.
Works for us.

I tried that approach too. The problem was that if you didn't get the DVR timing just right you wouldn't be able to watch the start of the new (next hour) shows when they began if the the DVR'ed show wasn't over.

Commercials are what pay to make the tv shows, which is why there aren’t many new shows on actual tv anymore. You’d do better just getting a streaming service and viola!! No more commercials.

Ha Ha, that happens to us also ... it's great to be retired ( ;>)

I think my wife has seen only the first 95% of every movie that she has ever watched.

Yep. Pay the extra few bucks per app and no commercials.

Unfortunatley many Streaming services have begun forcing commercials also.
It's the business model that pays the best for them.

Have you noticed that TV stations that used to be free are slowly, disappearing, and being entered into some package that you have to pay for now what’s going on? You have to pay your monthly fee and then you subjected to watching the commercials. as far as TV commercials go big business and big companies get to do what they want -doing anything to help we the people has gone out the window .

"Normality"
 

I may be slightly less weird than I'd presumed!

I always believed the happiness and contentment in my life, was in direct relation to my weirdness.
My family and friends, however, are convinced I'm nuts.

"You think too much"
 

Oh, understood. *Way* past caring what others are convinced of. :-)

Prexactly.

Pretty much sums up how I see EVERY episode of Dateline. I’ve seen all the crimes but they’re all unsolved in my book. LOL