Beyond TV Buzz

[opilion]

I am curious how many people are participating in the Beyond TV Buzz. It would be nice if the actual counts for each show were displayed on the web page.

For example, Treasure Hunters starts up Sunday - a big budget primetime show, but according to Buzz, we're all recording old Simpsons reruns instead.

Seems fishy - maybe the whole BTV QA lab is set to record Dr. Who and Simpsons and it's swaying the results .

op

[cfaslave]

Originally Posted by opilion

I am curious how many people are participating in the Beyond TV Buzz. It would be nice if the actual counts for each show were displayed on the web page.

I've posted this question before with no response. I totally agree that it would be nice to know how many are participating for that reason. Snapstream might not want us to know if it's only a few....

[merrypig]

There are 42 =)

[Kilrsat]

Originally Posted by opilion

I am curious how many people are participating in the Beyond TV Buzz. It would be nice if the actual counts for each show were displayed on the web page.

For example, Treasure Hunters starts up Sunday - a big budget primetime show, but according to Buzz, we're all recording old Simpsons reruns instead.

Seems fishy - maybe the whole BTV QA lab is set to record Dr. Who and Simpsons and it's swaying the results .

op

Treasure Hunters is currently #14 on Sunday, with roughly 1/5th of the number of recordings as the #1 show ( The 4400 ). I'm actually a bit surprised at how popular The 4400 is because it has nearly twice as many recordings on Sunday as the #2 show. Maybe I need to start watching it.

Even if we forced every machine in the lab and all of our home machines to record a single episode, we couldn't even force it into the top 25 on any given day, so it isn't us

Having seen the raw data, there simply are a lot of people that record every episode of The Simpsons and Family Guy. Taking those two series out, the top 5 on Sunday would look like:

1. The 4400
2. World Cup Soccer (Australia vs. Brazil)
3. World Cup Soccer (France vs. Korea)
4. The Dead Zone
5. World Cup Soccer (Croatia vs. Japan)

If we take out the following series: Simpons, Family Guy, the World Cup, and Futurama then Treasure Hunters climbs all the way up to #6, but still wouldn't make the page (since its only the top 5).

Roughly 50% of users of BTV versions 4.2+ (the ones eligible to participate in the Buzz stats) have opted in.

[nanook105]

I guess that I must be the only one recording the Munsters

[cfaslave]

Originally Posted by Kilrsat

Roughly 50% of users of BTV versions 4.2+ (the ones eligible to participate in the Buzz stats) have opted in.

Thanks for the info. Pretty interesting.

By the way, the 4400 is a good one and worth checking out. Watch the first season first though.