[mythtv-users] Sorry, but I don't want to pay much

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 01:45:14PM -0400, Michael Thome wrote:
>    Indeed. There are apparently only around 25K "metered" Neilson
>    families at a given time (many more contribute to the stats via
>    diaries). My original point was that if myth was bundled with
>    a facility to allow people to collect and report back their
>    statistics (on a voluntary basis), the aggregate data stream would
>    be rather valuable, particularly since we could collect arbitrary
>    detail such as time-shifting, repeat watching, and non-ad-related
>    pauses/skips during shows.

... just as TiVo does.  I don't know whether the open source nature of
Myth would make Nielsen nervous about the accuracy of the data, but
there's merit in this idea.  It *would* require patches to the mainline
code, treading as it does in the patch of how the built-in player works.

Cheers,
-- jra
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