[mythtv-users] plugin idea: MythNielsen

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon May 8 08:54:26 EDT 2006


On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 12:03:36AM -0400, Richard Bronosky wrote:
> So, it occurred to me how valuable media viewing information is. 
> DataDirect offers their services to us (in the US) in return for a
> simple little survey every few months.
> 
> What if we gathered our viewing data and compilied it for them. 
> They'd surely get value out of that.  We'd surely get value out of
> letting our geeky preferences being known.  It would also be
> interesting to be able to see those statistics for a social/community
> thing.  Finally this data could be used to generate the "you might be
> interested in" feature that comes up occationally.

It might be possible to extract this out of Brad Templeton's add-on
called, I believe, MythWish.  And I'm pretty sure Neilsen would call it
'anecdotal', since they have no way to lock it down against fiddling.

Still might be useful, though.  TiVo's Season Pass data gets attention.

Cheers,
-- jra
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