Tivo has, in my opinion, some of the most valuable viewer statistics around. They don't just know what you watch, but how you watch it. All at once, in chunks, rewinding certain bits, pausing, which ads you watch, if you rewatch shows, when you choose to watch things, how long you keep things.. The skipping ad thing, of course, makes most of that useless. In the UK we have DVRs, but they don't include ad skipping as the advertising industry got legal action happy.
I know, world in peril and we have to work together. This is my last office romance, I'll tell you that.
Buffy ,'End of Days'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Kevin - Apr 26, 2007 11:49:52 am PDT #6425 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
DebetEsse - Apr 26, 2007 12:01:37 pm PDT #6426 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
How can they not include ad skipping?
Jessica - Apr 26, 2007 12:15:40 pm PDT #6427 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Tivos don't technically have ad-skipping either, just the ability to fast-forward. (It's possible to hack your remote to skip ahead in 30-second chunks, but it's not a built-in ability.)
Denise - Apr 26, 2007 12:16:35 pm PDT #6428 of 10001
Yeah, don't you have a ff option?
I thought we were talking about fast forwarding. My DVR doesn't have specific ad-skipping.
DebetEsse - Apr 26, 2007 12:17:38 pm PDT #6429 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Right. So, I'm trying to figure out how one would lose that functionality and still have a functional DVR.
Polter-Cow - Apr 26, 2007 3:33:10 pm PDT #6430 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
From IMDb:
Nielsen Research, which provides data about the number of viewers who watch television shows when they air, produced its first data about shows that people watch after they air, mostly using digital recording devices like TiVo. Topping the list was Fox's House, which was viewed last week by 2.7 million people following is original broadcast. ABC's Lost came in second with 2.47 million "time shifting" the program. The Tuesday (performance) episode of American Idol came in third, with 2.46 million.
That's sort of lower than I expected, given how many millions watch when they air.
Invisible Green - Apr 26, 2007 4:00:04 pm PDT #6431 of 10001
So, 6 episodes were filmed, but how many were written?
§ ita § - Apr 26, 2007 4:20:15 pm PDT #6432 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's sort of lower than I expected, given how many millions watch when they air.
What's the TiVo market penetration?
le nubian - Apr 26, 2007 4:34:07 pm PDT #6433 of 10001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
DVRs are in 16% of US homes, I believe.
Kevin - Apr 26, 2007 11:05:44 pm PDT #6434 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Invisible Green - 6
Sorry, the FF thing and Tivo -- I thought Tivos had the ability to self skip adverts. Of course we have FF, but we don't have that. My reasoning here is this -- when DVR's broke in the UK, the one major one had the ability to skip advertisements automatically. That promoted legal action, which meant they had to drop the feature.