DVR'ing Heroes
zadok
Today's USA Today had an article about people using DVRs more.
The second-highest usage was for Heroes.
Either the show is complex enough that people need to back up and
watch a scene again, or want to rewatch a second time to see something
they might have missed, or both.
As for me, I like to watch a second time a week later, just before
watching the next new episode. It refreshes my memory, and I get a
fresh perspective after reading a week's posts on this forum.
zadok
miko
watching it just before the next episode is a good idea. my wife keeps
deleting it so i had to tell her to stop....and i hate watching it on
the internet
Melissa
"zadok" <any...@cox.net> wrote in message
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We TIVO it and watch it the next day. The commercials really slow down the
flow of the show and it's nice to be able to skip them. I like to watch
each episode twice to make sure I "got" it all.
Melissa
M. Halbrook
news:4715fd96$0$9566$4c36...@roadrunner.com:
>> As for me, I like to watch a second time a week later, just before
>> watching the next new episode. It refreshes my memory, and I get a
>> fresh perspective after reading a week's posts on this forum.
>>
>> zadok
>
> We TIVO it and watch it the next day. The commercials really slow down
> the flow of the show and it's nice to be able to skip them. I like to
> watch each episode twice to make sure I "got" it all.
>
That's why I typically just download it. It usually shows up on the binary
groups by the time I'm home on Monday, Even with Download times, I finish a
few mins after my wife does who watches it live.
ron.b...@gmail.com
> Today's USA Today had an article about people using DVRs more.
>
> The second-highest usage was for Heroes.
>
> Either the show is complex enough that people need to back up
> and watch a scene again, or want to rewatch a second time
> to see something they might have missed, or both.
Or they're like me and use it to FF through the Maya arc,
which I can't stand :^(
Ron
Pete B
says...
>
> Today's USA Today had an article about people using DVRs more.
>
> The second-highest usage was for Heroes.
They can measure that?
zadok
wrote:
They have to account for the number of people skipping commercials, or
the ratings have no meaning to advertisers.
I suppose the "Nielson families" are noting whether they are watching
live or not when they log their viewing.
zadok
Jon Schild
zadok wrote:
> Today's USA Today had an article about people using DVRs more.
>
> The second-highest usage was for Heroes.
What others were on the list?
> Either the show is complex enough that people need to back up and
> watch a scene again, or want to rewatch a second time to see something
> they might have missed, or both.
>
> As for me, I like to watch a second time a week later, just before
> watching the next new episode. It refreshes my memory, and I get a
> fresh perspective after reading a week's posts on this forum.
>
> zadok
--
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us
with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-- Galileo Galilei
ebrian
Pete B
says...
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:33:29 +0200, Pete B <xxxh@_someething.com>
> wrote:
>
> >In article <471a739c...@news.east.cox.net>, any...@cox.net
> >says...
> >>
> >> Today's USA Today had an article about people using DVRs more.
> >>
> >> The second-highest usage was for Heroes.
> >
> >They can measure that?
> >
> >
> They have to account for the number of people skipping commercials, or
> the ratings have no meaning to advertisers.
Ah - they are making them up as well ;)
zadok
In terms of millions of viewers, it was Grey's Anatomy.
In terms of percentage of viewers who watched on DVR, it was The
Office.
IIRC, Heroes came in second both ways.
zadok
Rod Smith
TiVo, for one, collects a lot of data on how its users use their TiVos --
what shows they record, what parts they fast-forward through, etc. The
data are aggregated in a way that TiVo claims makes it impossible to trace
it back to individuals, and I believe they've got an "opt-out" possibility
if you don't like the "anonymous" data collection they do. I don't know
precisely who buys TiVo's data, but they certainly don't collect the data
just to have something to fill their corporate hard disks.
--
Rod Smith, rods...@rodsbooks.com
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux, FreeBSD, and networking
Pete B
rods...@nessus.rodsbooks.com says...
> In article <MPG.2180c8472...@news.usenetserver.com>,
> Pete B <xxxh@_someething.com> writes:
> >
> >
> > In article <471a739c...@news.east.cox.net>, any...@cox.net
> > says...
> >>
> >> Today's USA Today had an article about people using DVRs more.
> >>
> >> The second-highest usage was for Heroes.
> >
> > They can measure that?
>
> TiVo, for one, collects a lot of data on how its users use their TiVos --
> what shows they record, what parts they fast-forward through, etc. The
> data are aggregated in a way that TiVo claims makes it impossible to trace
> it back to individuals, and I believe they've got an "opt-out" possibility
> if you don't like the "anonymous" data collection they do. I don't know
> precisely who buys TiVo's data, but they certainly don't collect the data
> just to have something to fill their corporate hard disks.
Indeed - another reason to build your own dvr, eh?
Paul O'Neill
"Rod Smith" <rods...@nessus.rodsbooks.com> wrote in message
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> In article <MPG.2180c8472...@news.usenetserver.com>,
> Pete B <xxxh@_someething.com> writes:
>>
>>
>> In article <471a739c...@news.east.cox.net>, any...@cox.net
>> says...
>>>
>>> Today's USA Today had an article about people using DVRs more.
>>>
>>> The second-highest usage was for Heroes.
>>
>> They can measure that?
>
> TiVo, for one, collects a lot of data on how its users use their TiVos --
> what shows they record, what parts they fast-forward through, etc. The
> data are aggregated in a way that TiVo claims makes it impossible to trace
> it back to individuals, and I believe they've got an "opt-out" possibility
> if you don't like the "anonymous" data collection they do. I don't know
> precisely who buys TiVo's data, but they certainly don't collect the data
> just to have something to fill their corporate hard disks.
It goes - along with your phone records - to Dick Cheney's house, for his
bed-time reading.