30-Second Skipahead on Comcast

If you have Comcast, or any television provider that uses the Motorola DCT6412-III digital video recorder, you can program your remote control to gain a 30-second skipahead feature (like TiVo has). Here are the steps:

1. Press the “Cable” button at the top of the remote so that it is controlling the box.
2. Press and hold the “Setup” button until the LED under “Cable” flashes twice.
3. Type in the code 994. The LED will flash twice again.
4. Press but do not hold the “Setup” button.
5. Type in the code 00173. This is the skipahead code.
6. Press whatever button you want to map the skipahead code to. I suggest the “HD Zoom” button since it doesn’t appear to do anything.

This has probably been posted a million times before, but I figured somebody who hasn’t seen it before could take advantage of it.

Also, another cool thing you can do is map the “Mute” button to control the muting at the Cable box’s level instead of screwing with your television set or home theater equipment — nothing more fun then having the audio to a show just start playing randomly when a show was set to record! The process is pretty much the same, except I believe the code in step #5 is 141.

Happy skipping!