I know this is an old post, and I've had a slightly different but similar event. I was watching a show I recorded weeks ago. I was busy doing something else when the commercials started and didn't zip right away. A commercial came on for some sporting event happening "tonight." My husband came in and seemed very interested in the commercial, so I warned him, "This is a recording, that's not a current event." He said, "No, that's tonight. I've been reading about it." I stopped the recording to show him that the live TV was playing something else. Then I resumed the playback. The commercial he had watched was gone. I backed up and replayed the whole commercial break on the recording. No sporting events. If we hadn't both seen it, I'd wonder if I had hallucinated, though if he hadn't come in, I'd have let it play and never realized that it wasn't an old commercial. Anyway, it appears DirecTV can insert current ads into old playbacks.
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