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According to a report from AdAge, every single network drama that aired on Tuesday night experienced a double-digit decline in ratings. And aside from a decent showing from The Muppets, the report relays that there have been few bright spots to the start of this year's fall TV lineup.
[...] All told, cumulative viewership during "Premiere Week", as it's called, is down 8% compared to the same period a year-ago. More worrisome for TV networks is that viewership from the highly sought-after 18-24 demographic is down 20% year over year, with male viewership within that demographic falling by 24%.
Males in the 18-24 demographic are the most coveted in advertising because that's when studies show brand preferences are formed. 24% is a catastrophic decline for TV.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 27 2015, @08:15PM
After having spent a horrible year working for a company that makes the set top boxes for a sateliite provider, I can say that no, you can't get the stuff off it. Their agreements with the content providers means that they have to implement strong security on any recorded media. Now you and I both know they spend as little time as possible implementing it, so there may be something exploitable, but most likely you just won't have access to that data.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 28 2015, @02:07AM
He didn't specifically say he wanted to view the videos that he'd already recorded on the DVR. I would think that transplanting the hard drive into a PC would be almost certain to succeed. I don't know enough about the subject to say whether the DVR could be used to record from other sources than the satellite, but it seems unlikely. Check the input connectors, check the manual, find the model number, the specifications and forum discussions online?