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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Michael,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Yep, I have already posted several times
about how I would like to fund some type of imdb style rating /review system
just for myth tv users with no reply.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Dean<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Michael Tiller<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 10 August 2005
5:56 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Discussion about mythtv<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [mythtv-users] Cornucopia
of the Commons</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I was sitting around
contemplating my MythTV setup the other day and it occurred to me that with the
number of deployed MythTV boxes, there should be some really interesting
"social" possibilities. Perhaps this has already been
discussed, but it seems to me that the open nature of MythTV would make these
relatively easy to add.<br>
<br>
The specific case I was thinking about was what to watch on TV. TiVo has
its suggestions capability and I do miss that. But MythTV could do much
better. Instead of looking at my viewing habits and trying to guess what
I'd like, what if you looked at my viewing habits and then compared them with
viewing habits of other MythTV owners? If you were somehow able to
compile all the viewing information (in an opt-in, privacy friendly way of
course), then you could pretty easily identify patterns. So if I record
"Law & Order" and "Numb3rs" and it notices that most
people who record those shows also record "The Closer" then it would
point that out to me.<br>
<br>
This could be just like the online commerce approach of "people who bought
this also bought...".<br>
<br>
This kind of capability wouldn't just have to rely on past data, it could see
into the future. It could recognize patterns in what people with similar
interests will record in the future.<br>
<br>
I wonder if commercial identification could work in a similar way...combining
information about what the various commercial identifying algorithms identified
along with information about what parts of a program people fast-forwarded or
skipped through to create a nearly definitive map of a broadcast (of course,
this requires that time pass and some people have already watched the episode,
but I'm just brainstorming here).<br>
<br>
As I said, perhaps this has been discussed before, I don't know. I
thought it was an interesting idea and reflects many trends in how social data
is being handled (e.g. <a href="http://del.icio.us">http://del.icio.us</a>).<br>
<br>
If I had the time, I'd probably try and implement something myself. But
being overcommitted already with other obligations, I'm afraid I have little to
offer such a project except perhaps some ideas, user feedback and
encouragement. :-(<br>
<br>
--<br>
Mike<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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