On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:39:06AM -0700, Garry Cook wrote: > I've had my MythTV box up for a little over a week now, and one thing > that really kills me is when I see a commercial (watching live TV of > course) for a program that is of interest. What do I do? Stop watching > and go schedule it? Write it down on a list I keep on the coffee > table? It would be great if I could just hit a button and have the > program touted in the commercial scheduled.
As you probably know, if the advertiser buys this ability, the Tivo does exactly this. A little icon appears during the ad to tell you to push your thumbs-up button to record the advertised show. I don't think this works well as a collaborative system, do people really want to make records of where shows are advertised? I don't see it. You could start noticing, "Hey, after viewing this ad, 20 people went and queued the following recording" and then offer it as a choice, but frankly, this feature is pretty un-exciting. Admittedly because I use a keyboard not a remote control, so for me, in the unlikely event I even _see_ an ad, I can just pause, bring up mythweb, type in the name and record it all in a very few seconds. > Perhaps the TWish beta that's being talked about will help with this > issue, but wow, wouldn't that just be the nutz?!?! Tvwish's current goals are more along the lines of "If some person (or somebody amalgamating the opinions of many) puts up a recommendation for a show on the web, your Mythtv will record it."
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