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Taylor
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Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:08 am Post subject:
DVR users LOVE watching SNL... in 10 minutes! |
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http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2005-11-15T030052Z_01_SCH510771_RTRUKOC_0_US-TIVO.xml&archived=False
....One, for example, extolls the virtues of watching "Saturday Night
Live" in just 10 minutes by fast-forwarding through the commercials and
the "bad" sketches...
It's official: SNL is now totally socially irrelevant.
I agree that TiVo's just being a bastard on the two topics of complaints:
- its inability to record two shows simultaneously
- to play back shows in high-definition TV quality.
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Study finds TiVo losing ground among DVR users
Mon Nov 14, 2005 10:01 PM ET
By Paul Bond
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - TiVo Inc. has created a digital video
recorder with a name that has worked its way into the American lexicon,
but its reputation among users and would-be users is beginning to erode
amid generic competitors, according to a new study that relies on
Internet buzz to study consumers' opinion.
Brandimensions, the research firm that conducted the study, said that
TiVo's standalone set-top box is failing in two areas: its inability to
record two shows simultaneously and to play back shows in
high-definition TV quality.
"This may not sound like a big deal," wrote one TiVo user about the
latter, "but after watching 'Lost' or 'The Sopranos' on HD, there is no
going back."
Brandimensions used its technology to gather such comments from Internet
forums, discussion boards, blogs, chat rooms and other online sources.
The firm searched more than 80,000 Web sites where digital video
recorders were critiqued and used relevancy algorithms and other
techniques to boil results down to 1,300 consumer mentions.
According to Brandimensions, digital video recorder (DVR) users who use
phrases like "I TiVo'ed it last night" outnumber the more generic "I
recorded it" or "I watched it on DVR" by a relatively small margin of
just above 10 percent.
Brandimensions said that consumers engaged in a discussion of the DVR
industry mention TiVo just 60 percent of the time, indicating that
awareness of generic DVRs -- mentioned in 40 percent of the cases -- is
growing rapidly.
The research firm also uses a set of attributes to formulate a sentiment
score on a scale of one to five, with five being the highest. While TiVo
scored a fairly high 3.76 on the scale, generic DVRs trailed only
slightly at 3.74.
While 16 percent of TiVo's online commentators complained that TiVo
costs more than the competition, 64 percent slammed the DVR pioneer for
not offering standalone TiVos with either a dual tuner or one that is HD
compatible. Combination TiVo-DirecTV boxes offer both, and TiVo has
indicated standalone HD, dual-tuner boxes could be forthcoming, though
many generic DVRs already offer HD and dual tuners.
"If I wanted to record one show at a time, I would have stayed with the
VCR," complained one TiVo user online, according to Brandimensions.
"Consumers are showing signs that the brand-name novelty of owning TiVo
may be wearing off," the authors of the study wrote.
To be sure, TiVo still has its legendary rabid fans, and Brandimensions
doesn't ignore them. One, for example, extolls the virtues of watching
"Saturday Night Live" in just 10 minutes by fast-forwarding through the
commercials and the "bad" sketches, while another said that "TiVo is
simply the greatest invention in the history of entertainment."
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
© Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved. |
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Elmo P. Shagnasty
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Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:08 pm Post subject:
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In article <jxCef.2393$w84.435867@news20.bellglobal.com>,
Taylor <taylor.taylor@gmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | ...One, for example, extolls the virtues of watching "Saturday Night
Live" in just 10 minutes by fast-forwarding through the commercials and
the "bad" sketches...
It's official: SNL is now totally socially irrelevant.
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That is the ONLY way to watch SNL nowadays.
Last week's show is a great example.
But then, there was the Paris Hilton show in February; I still have that
one on my Replay, and I'm handing out DVDs with the cheaperkids.net and
"Exclusive Connections" bits. |
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Josiah Gluck
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Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:08 pm Post subject:
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OK--
but how does it look and sound??
Leading the witness,
J |
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Elmo P. Shagnasty
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Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:08 pm Post subject:
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In article
<josiah-4362DC.08342416112005@news-rdr-01-dummy.rdc-nyc.rr.com>,
Josiah Gluck <josiah@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
| Quote: | OK--
but how does it look and sound??
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You want to expand on that a little bit?
Like maybe, quote a bit of what you're replying to so that everyone
knows what you're talking about? |
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Gary Tait
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Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:08 am Post subject:
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Taylor <taylor.taylor@gmail.com> wrote in news:jxCef.2393$w84.435867
@news20.bellglobal.com:
| Quote: | I agree that TiVo's just being a bastard on the two topics of complaints:
- its inability to record two shows simultaneously
- to play back shows in high-definition TV quality.
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New units next year will be dual tuner and HDTV compatible.
Not that that will make SNL any better, but would let some se MadTV as
well.. |
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Neill Massello
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Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:08 am Post subject:
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Taylor <taylor.taylor@gmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | ...One, for example, extolls the virtues of watching "Saturday Night
Live" in just 10 minutes by fast-forwarding through the commercials and
the "bad" sketches...
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And there's still ten minutes left? |
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