TCub
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Olmsted Falls, OH
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| money money money money..... MONEY!
If they have the cash to burn on crap like this.... They must charge their customers an arm and a leg. I have Cox and we have our TV and Internet for about $100 I think. Not too bad for digital cable and WWW.
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bender
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join:2005-03-19
Evanston, IL
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for digital cable subscribers? i dont see how this will work for non digital subs
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Kearnstd
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Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to TCub
Re: money money money money..... MONEY!
everyone also wants to be the next google when it comes to success from ad profits. google nearly prints its money somedays it seems like.
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
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·Comcast
|  My DVR will be targeted for ads I will never see
Targeted TV ads sounds like it is a good deal for the advertisers and for the cable networks(who would get more money for targeted ads). But since more and more people watch TV thru the filter of DVRs and their fast forward capabilities, who will see these ads?
Will this result, eventually, in the hardware DVRs fast forward capability being disabled in the software? And will the software based network DVR(being tested at TWC for example) prohibit fast forwarding thru commercials?
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TKJunkMail
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Avalon, NJ
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Re: money money money money..... MONEY!
said by TCub  :If they have the cash to burn on crap like this.... They must charge their customers an arm and a leg. I have Cox and we have our TV and Internet for about $100 I think. Not too bad for digital cable and WWW. A 500 terabyte server farm costs next to nothing for even a medium size business. For Comcast the cost is inconsequential and would be easily dwarfed by the extra revenue they would get from the higher prices targeted ads would garner.
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TCub
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join:2008-09-03
Olmsted Falls, OH
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| Whoah! You changed your avatar.
Anyway. I was considering the entire cost. I sure a server wouldn't be that much but then they have to come up with the idea, create some funky software to monitor EVERY single person watching TV with comcast. Analyse the data, etc etc.
But like Kearnstd said, they're trying to do the Google thing and make a shit ton of money off ad's. So if it works out for them then all this stuff will just pay for itself then. |
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TCub
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join:2008-09-03
Olmsted Falls, OH
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| reply to TKJunkMail
Re: My DVR will be targeted for ads I will never see
thats true. Maybe they will prevent you from skipping through channels.
Or imagine you record the show to your DVR and it records commercial free. Then every so often in the show Comcast stops the show and throws in a few commercials, like Hulu.
I'm sure they'll realize quickly that people with DVR's are skipping through these special ads and do something about it. |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | reply to bender
Re: is this only
I imagine they could hit the analog subscribers with this by injecting ads at remote head ends in different parts of town. They could target digital subscribers to the individual users by streaming the adds to their setup box. |
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hescominsoon
join:2003-02-18
Brunswick, MD
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said by bender :for digital cable subscribers? i dont see how this will work for non digital subs Don't expect the cablecos to allow folks to stay on analog for long after the digital switchover. |
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b10010011
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join:2004-09-07
Bellingham, WA | Thank God for Tivo-HD and it's one way cableCARD tuner
They won't be getting any usuable data from me.  |
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banditws6
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join:2001-08-18
Naples, FL
·Comcast
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Re: Thank God for Tivo-HD and it's one way cableCARD tuner
It's also just one more reason the cable companies will make it hard and/or inconvenient to use devices like TiVo. 
Although, this could be the sort of data that the forthcoming tuning adapter peripheral will enable cablecos to collect from legacy TiVo users like ourselves.
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Jim Gurd
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Plymouth, MI
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Re: is this only
It won't work on me either. I returned my digital box, downgraded to limited basic and plugged the cable directly into my TV with Clear QAM tuner.
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TKJunkMail
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Avalon, NJ
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Re: Thank God for Tivo-HD and it's one way cableCARD tuner
said by banditws6 :It's also just one more reason the cable companies will make it hard and/or inconvenient to use devices like TiVo. Although, this could be the sort of data that the forthcoming tuning adapter peripheral will enable cablecos to collect from legacy TiVo users like ourselves. Those "tuning adapters" are already being distributed. A friend of mine in Moorestown NJ got 2 of them for attaching to his TIVO STBs. That area of NJ is implementing SDV.
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TwoCpus4me
join:2003-10-16
| These fokking cable company scum
Charging $90 - $120 per month for commodity service, and then sticking it to you with illegally obtained monitoring data so they can jam commericials back in your face (that you pay through the a$$ for).
No cable in my house. Thank you OTA Digital TV. |
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DarkLogix
join:2008-10-23
Baytown, TX
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| reply to TCub
Re: money money money money..... MONEY!
Ya but would/could a single server have that much capasity?
in windows 64bit the largest logical drive you can have is 7.5TB so 7.5*26(letteres in the alphabet) 195TB
not lets assume not windows
500TB=minimum 334 1.5TB harddrives (but of course add redundancy so) 336 drives if one large array is even possible
It would be easy to see its possible but it would take some planning as to how to orgenize and various other aspects and possibly a need for ZFS
you could actually fit the drives all in one 48U Rack with space to spare
it would be cool to get more details as to how they set it up(although I know how I would) |
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TKJunkMail
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Avalon, NJ
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| reply to TwoCpus4me
Re: These fokking cable company scum
said by TwoCpus4me :sticking it to you with illegally obtained monitoring data so they can jam commericials back in your face It is NOT against the law to collect that data - at least not yet. There is maybe an FTC ruling that they would have to NOTIFY the customer that they are doing it.
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| The problem is...
The tv viewer habits, are moving from addressable interactiv cable boxes to, well... bittorrent. Still trackbable, but can't exactly target commercials to these people.. the ripping from tv edits out the commercials, even something as problematic as SNL. |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000
| Where are the privacy whackos?
So why are they not freaking out over this? This is really not that much different than web adds that are served to you after looking at your surfing habits.
And yes I used the term whacko. It's for the ones that somehow think that a 3rd party can find every intimate detail about you because they they know that 10.234.3.4 likes to search for hard drives and now they send Segate adds to them instead of Smiling Bob adds.
IF I have to look at adds somewhere I would at least prefer they be for something that I might be interested in buying. Then again if you use ad block software it's a moot point. |
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aaronwt
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join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA | 500TB doesn't sound like very much
I have over 20TB at home just for me. 500TB seems like a tiny amount for that many people. |
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