Re: "Jake 2.0" might be in trouble--how fans can help

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Henderson) writes:

>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Schilling) wrote in
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 

>> For that matter, it's only folks with real money who watch the
>> commericals who really matter, so not counting college students is
>> probably also a feature.

>Folks with real money generally don't watch commercials; they have VCRs 
>or Tivos. 

Sorry, no.  TiVo, for all the hype, has achieved approximately zero
market penetration.  The networks, etc, are absolutely right to more
or less write off TiVo users as a demographic. 

<http://www.forbes.com/2003/09/11/0911tivopinnacor.html>

And VCRs, as has already been noted here, are used primarily to watch
rented videos, not to time-shift much less decommercialize broadcast
television.

Television programs, other than on premium cable channels, are made
for the very large number of people who have real money and who watch
TV in real time, complete with commercials.  If you have found a way
to watch decommercialized television on your own time, good for you,
but don't imagine that you represent any sort of dominant or even
significant demographic that anyone ought to care about.  


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