[mythtv-users] plugin idea: MythNielsen

[Dean Wilson]

I _just_ sent this to the list last Friday. 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/202486#202486

(Basically, I was interested in the same sort of project.  Care would
have to be taken to keep the information authentic, and there isn't
any guarantee that Nielson would use the information.  But at the very
least, it would still provide information to myth users and
developers...)

On 5/8/06, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> 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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