Arrangement for storing and playing back TV programmes, which has the following: - means for selecting a TV programme to be recorded; - means (102, 108) for recording the TV programme; - means (104, 102, 108) for time-shifted playback of a running recording of the TV programme to be recorded; - means for ascertaining the time at which broadcast of the TV programme to be recorded begins; - means for ascertaining the total duration of the advertising shown within the TV programme during the broadcast; - means for ascertaining a time for the earliest beginning of advertisement-free playback from the time of the beginning of the broadcast and the total duration of the advertising shown; - means for displaying the time for the earliest beginning of advertisement-free playback; - wherein means of the arrangement for recording and playback are embodied as a PVR server having means for receiving a multiplicity of digitally encoded TV channels, means for supplying a multiplicity of terminals and means for recording TV programmes to be stored and as at least one terminal having means for selecting TV programmes to be stored, means for transmitting the selection to the PVR server and means for playing back TV programmes recorded by the PVR server; - wherein a user database of the arrangement contains information regarding which TV channel uses how much transmission time within a broadcast for advertising at which time of day, and the user database manages the programmes that a user intends for recording and checks authorizations of the user; and - wherein a maximum value of advertisement times empirically ascertained by users on the basis of time of day is used by the arrangement to calculate the total duration of the advertising shown within the TV programme during the broadcast. - means for selecting a TV programme to be recorded; - means (102, 108) for recording the TV programme; - means (104, 102, 108) for time-shifted playback of a running recording of the TV programme to be recorded; - means for ascertaining the time at which broadcast of the TV programme to be recorded begins; - means for ascertaining the total duration of the advertising shown within the TV programme during the broadcast; - means for ascertaining a time for the earliest beginning of advertisement-free playback from the time of the beginning of the broadcast and the total duration of the advertising shown; - means for displaying the time for the earliest beginning of advertisement-free playback; - wherein means of the arrangement for recording and playback are embodied as a PVR server having means for receiving a multiplicity of digitally encoded TV channels, means for supplying a multiplicity of terminals and means for recording TV programmes to be stored and as at least one terminal having means for selecting TV programmes to be stored, means for transmitting the selection to the PVR server and means for playing back TV programmes recorded by the PVR server; - wherein a user database of the arrangement contains information regarding which TV channel uses how much transmission time within a broadcast for advertising at which time of day, and the user database manages the programmes that a user intends for recording and checks authorizations of the user; and - wherein a maximum value of advertisement times empirically ascertained by users on the basis of time of day is used by the arrangement to calculate the total duration of the advertising shown within the TV programme during the broadcast.