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The television will be revolutionized: effects of PVRs and filesharing on television watching

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CHI '06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 663 - 666

https://doi.org/10.1145/1124772.1124870

Published: 22 April 2006 Publication History

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This paper investigates television-watching practices amongst early adopters of personal hard-disk video recorders (PVRs such as TiVotm) and Internet downloading of shows. Through in-depth interviews with early adopters, we describe how the rhythms of television watching change when decoupled from broadcast TV. For both the PVR users and downloaders TV watching has become less of a passive process, with viewers instead actively gathered shows from the schedules or online, and watching shows from their stored collection. From these results we discuss the 'video media lifecycle', and three new design concepts for supporting TV watching.

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CHI '06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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DOI:10.1145/1124772

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Microsoft, USA
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Google, USA
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