[mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/04/05 21:04, chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:

>On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:33:41AM -0500, Dewey Smolka wrote:
>
>> Of course watching
>>it immediately eliminates the ability to skip ads, which is one of the
>>main reasons why people build a PVR in the first place.
>>    
>>
>I'd call that a false assumption.  I think the main reasons people are 
>using PVRs is so they can "pause live TV" and so they can "timeshift" 
>like a VCR.  Those two reasons form the basis of almost all of the 
>advertising in the commercial PVR market.
>
Yeah, because just think how big a bonus the ad-guy doing the spread for 
the cable company's PVR would get after presenting the "And now you can 
skip commercials" campaign he drew up.

Can you say, "Biting the hand that feeds?"

>  Skipping commercials is a 
>nice feature but probably not the driving force behind the sudden 
>growth in the PVR demand.  (Some PVRs don't have the ability to skip 
>commercials automatically.)
>  
>
But they all have the capability of fast forwarding.  (Actually, though, 
I would say most don't have the ability to skip commercials 
automatically.  If anything, they have a 3 minute jump.  Myth can truly 
skip commercials.  IMHO, there's a big difference.)

Mike