It's the people meters, not the surveys, which I knew they used to not allow with TiVos. But it may be that they changed their stance, or maybe by last summer they were starting to gather the data.
But very interesting to note! Thanks!
In a podcast last week you said you thought that Nielsen doesn't let TiVo users fill out their surveys. Well, we don't have TiVo, but we have a DVR from Time Warner, and we were a "Nielsen" family last summer.
I was very excited to do it, but it was a lot of work and all done in these little booklets you had to fill out by hand, instead of any kind of computer. I was told that if we watched something that was recorded during another time, to just write that down in the time slot we actually watched it. Though they didn't have a format specially for it, and I really think they didn't count it (the recorded stuff) but they didn't tell us we couldn't do it.

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