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TiVo Data Collection Ramifications

Posted by michael on from the messing-up-the-business-model dept.

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."

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  1. Tivo Card? by Cpt_Kirks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What is the best tuner card for a roll-your-own Tivo?

    Do any of them actually have a commercial skip function?

  2. The tea-break effect. by salimfadhley · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This was one of the reasons for a unique kind of power station to be created in Wales (For Americans, that is the little country stuck on the side of England but still part of the UK!).

    The Dinorwig Pumped-Storage power-station spends most of it's time consuming electricity by pumping the contents of a huge lower resivoir onto two upper resivoirs.

    As soon as the tea-break starts, Dinorwig lets rip, and the entire contents of the upper lakes are allowed to flow back down, the energy being converted back into electricial energy.

    Despite the fact that Dinorwig is less than 80% efficient, it saves the generating companies millions a year because it can react in an instant to sudden demands for more power.

    http://www.darvill.clara.net/altenerg/pumped.htm

    " Dinorwig has the fastest "response time" of any pumped storage plant in the world - it can provide 1320 MegaWatts in 12 seconds. That's a lot of cups of tea!"