How easy would it be to put in a pause feature?

I think that they call this stuff "time-shifting" although I'm not sure. I normally just record whatever we want to watch and then watch it later, or even while it's recording, I think that this will do what you want. To answer the question, I don't think that it will be easy and there's lots to think about ... What happens then you quit? ... What happens when you change channels? ... Surely, you'll want to fast forward through the ads if you are behind? ... How long would it pause for? For me, simply recording the station through the standard feature does a very adequate job.

Yeah, you could press pause, go make a cup of tea, then play, and wind forward through adverts.

another idea: advert skipping, search for a blank frame normally is the start/end of an advert break.

Like I said, we already have this. All you need to do is record, then start watching the recording when you get back. I don't want Me TV to become a massive system like Myth. They have to do this because it takes up your whole screen so they have to reimplement everything (like a web browser, DVD player, video player). Me TV is designed to integrate with your existing tools.

I think that the blanking frame solution is not a good one because you don't know which one is the "off" and which one is the "on" blanking frame. I wonder how Myth does it. Also blanking frames are not a guarantee.

Essentially, this question is solved.