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TiVo Data Collection Ramifications
www.sharkdefense.com writes "Businessweek has an interesting article on a new TiVo technology which allows ad executives to see which ads are skipped on the DVRs. Thank goodness they still don't know if you went to the bathroom for a break or to the fridge. The article is an eye-opening read."
Blah blah blah. So what if they know if you clicked on their ad or not? Web page banner companies have known this for years. It really doesn't matter.
which ads are skipped on the DVRs
All of them?
Thank goodness they still don't know if you went to the bathroom for a break or to the fridge.
I think the point that we all are missing is that we should be watching TV for the ads and taking our breaks during the filler (a.k.a. the actual show). At least, that's the way to be a good consumer.
Cat, the other, tastier white meat.
better ads!!! Woohoo! Now when I visit the relatives they'll make me laugh with their epic stories of this funniest commerial or that one with the dog!!! Yeah! Go TiVo!
..end sarcasm...
Are they talking about Skinimax and the Playboy Channel?
a new TiVo technology which allows ad executives to see which ads are skipped on the DVRs
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Do they need a new TiVo technology to know that all ads are skipped ?
It's like if my email client told bulk marketers which spam I didn't delete
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
PLEASE tell me this doesn't mean more Reality TV shows!!!
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Is there some way to flip the evil bit and make it seem like I watch nothing but commercials?
Prediction: to account for the possibility that people watching reality television are brain-dead and, while not forwarding through commercials, are not watching them exept to try and eat food that appears in some spots, Tivo has introduced a new on-demand service, interactive TV with links to live web chats on the current program bundled with TiVo-CU, the Tivo eye which scans the living room to record number of viewers and general state of consciousness. Video will automatically pixilate all faces.
Next Month: Reality television shows based on Tivo-cu footage are found to have the highest advirtising watch-thru.
closed minded is as closed minded does
Advertising Executive: "21% wrote in CowBoyNeal? Who TF is CowBoyNeal?"
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
I made a little tin foil hat for my fast forward button.
Take that ad-execs!
Open source Linux-based PVR's to the rescue!
Thank goodness they still don't know if you went to the bathroom for a break or to the fridge
Unfortunately they'll be able to deduce that you were jerking off when you rewound and replayed that Doritos girl commercial about forty times.
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
Just keep it within the confines of your tinfoil hat, and you'll be ok. Take me for example - I wear my tinfoil hat 24/7, and I even go as far as shaving my head inside an aluminum tent.
Yes. We're all alpha geeks with unparalleled technical skills, perfect Libertarian/Free Market outlooks, vast bank accounts/portfolios and enourmous genitals that make the bitches scream and beg for more.
--- Ban humanity.
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Man 2: Well I used to, then my friends turned me on to Preparation H!
Man 1: Really? How's that work?
Man 2: Well lemme just slap a little on for you there, skippy...
Man 1: Oooh.. Oh...
Man 2
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Being above the rest in the television caste system still leaves you a turd in the gutter.
I'd actually watch that.
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I recall reading somewhere that 30-40 years ago, before there were 187 cable/satellite channels, the operators of the New York City water system could tell with a high degree of accuracy how many people were watching which shows by comparing water flow with the timing of commercials. A minute or so after a hit show went to commercial there would be a huge surge in water demand as all the toilets started flushing.
I'd actually watch that.
But would you watch the commercials?