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[Technology360] Mark's Monday Memo, 12/20/2004: - Number of TVs in homes - This appeared in the Sunday Business section of The New York Times: Saturation is probably the number of rooms in the home, maybe subtracting the bathroom -- but not necessarily," Joseph Turow, professor at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania

[Tvharmony.com] TVHarmony: Nielsen Rating Adjust To PVR Trend: Currently, Nielsen monitors 5,000 families across the US with an electronic device that records the time and channel that is currently being viewed and asks participants to record who is actually doing the watching. In addition, several large markets have 20,000 additional monitors that only record time and channel information.

[Peacocknine.com] Peacock Nine: TiVo Archives: (TiVo’s latest financial reports should be coming out later this week.) It’s hard to see how these losses can’t do anything but grow given TiVo’s current model, which sees revenue being generated by sales of hardware (which the firm is considered by analysts to break-even on) and “subscription” revenues (users pay a monthly fee of $12.95 or lifetime fee of $300 to receive TV listings that allow the easy recording of TV programming.) Increased competition will almost certainly lower prices of PVRs, perhaps pushing TiVo’s hardware sales from a break-even revenue stream into a loss-generating one. Competition will also likely cut the fat out of the hefty subscription fee (the one element of TiVo that we found hard to swallow, incidentally), which should also pose a challenge to TiVo's efforts to turn a profit.

 [Geeklinksnet.blogspot.com] GeekLinks.net - Tech News and Views From My World.: December 2005: "CNET says that the Nielsen company is finally taking one of several steps aimed at adapting to the new television/TV audience (those who use TiVo or another service to record prime time shows for viewing later) on December 26th, 2005. Ratings will be broken out by how shows are watched--live, later in the day or within a seven-day period.

 [Lostremote.com] Lost Remote TV Blog: "The pace of change is incredible," says Nielsen Chief Executive Susan Whiting. "Instead of having years to develop measurement methods, our clients want solutions in months." (paid reg.

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