“Social video editing”?
Kevin Marks, a guest blogger over at Many-to-Many, explains how “social video editing” could work with Tivos:
TiVo collects data on which programs have been watched, which bits were fast-forwarded, and which were played more than once or in slow motion.
Imagine if it took the Olympics, or a baseball or football game, or presidential debate, and collated everyone’s replay speeds, and then offered up various highlights packages- the most viewed 5 minutes; most viewed hour and so on. This would naturally edit out all commercials, and the commentators padding, and show which parts people as a whole found interesting.
(Check out the comments too, the commenters tease out a few of the implications of such a system)