Out of the 234 PVR Wire readers who responded to our poll on how they were going to watch the Super Bowl, most were planning to watch it live rather than rely on their PVRs to isolate them from the commercials. Nearly 40 percent said they would watch the big game live, followed by 27 percent who were planning to delay their viewing by minutes.
Only 7 percent said they would delay their viewing for another day. But not everyone was going to watch the game: 26 percent said they had no plans to watch the Super Bowl this year. It looks like the Super Bowl may be one of those rare events where the networks can count on live eyeballs and a PVR audience that keeps the fast-fastforwarding to a minimum. The only other program that may attract similar loyalty is the Oscars.
1. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that many of us PVR owners would like to have watched the Super Bowl on our PVRs, quite possibly on another day. But the fact that people at work would be talking about the game, there would be news programs about the game, and commercials, and T-shirts, and blah blah blah. You'd know the outcome before you had a chance to watch the game, pretty much, ruining the whole point. The only way to avoid this, is to watch it live, or live in a bubble.
Posted at 2:27AM on Feb 7th 2006 by DocRoland