I'd be more inclined to agree with you if the TV advertising industry hadn't decided it was necessary to perform audio compression on all the commercials, supposedly to make us notice, but, really, to make us all deaf. In fact, before I had a TiVo, I just muted the TV as soon as the commercials came on so that I could listen to the actual show at a reasonable volume. I wonder if the networks could sue me over that. Or sue the advertisers for making me inclined to do that.

On a tangential note, I've noticed how poor my wife is at controlling the FF and REW on the TiVo and missing the resumption of the program by a long shot. While watching her, it occurred to me that TV stations/networks should start charging premiums for the spots abutting the actual content.