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.

So, 6 episodes were filmed, but how many were written?

That's sort of lower than I expected, given how many millions watch when they air.

What's the TiVo market penetration?

DVRs are in 16% of US homes, I believe.

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.

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.

IIRC, that's exactly what happened here with ReplayTV (which is why Tivos only ever had FF).

Right, over here wasn't it decided to be a violation of the first amendment?

Word on the street is that Drive likely won't get a DVD release.

Word on the street is that Drive likely won't get a DVD release.

Can't say that suprises me, given that we didn't get THE INSIDE, and that at least had all episodes filmed and a final show that could act as a conclusion (at least from what I've heard) like WONDERFALLS did.

wasn't it decided to be a violation of the first amendment?

Nah - it never had anything to do with the first amendment (which would only apply to the goverment, not private parties). Just a run-of-the-mill copyright infringement lawsuit by a bunch of networks against ReplayTV.

The case was dropped after Replay removed the feature in a later release, so nothing was ever decided, but it did give us the hi-larious spectacle of the head of Turner Broadcasting telling us that any time we don't watch commercials, we're stealing - but the networks would allow us to have bathroom breaks "within reason".

Relatedly, what on earth are we going to do in a world without Jack Valenti?