NBC's new drama "The Event" racked up impressive playback numbers starting in September.
Mr. Reilly noted that performance and added, "But in the middle, with a show that has a passionate loyal following like 'Fringe,' playback numbers are especially meaningful".
Mr. Reilly pointed out that when playback numbers are included, hit shows, like "Modern Family" on ABC and "Glee" on Fox, score ratings that would have looked impressive back in the pre-DVR days.
In the latest DVR rankings report for the week of May 14 to May 20, which includes the initial live broadcast viewership figures and DVR-playback numbers for the next seven days, "Modern Family" gained 4.3 million total viewers to go with a 59 percent boost in the 18-to-49 18-to-49 18-to-49
In a first step, we investigated whether the responses shown towards the playbacks (number of scan flights, number of birds perched in trees near the loudspeakers, number of 'haa' calls, and number of defensive calls) differed between the two speaker locations.
But after seven days of playback, those numbers lift to a 4.3 rating in the 18-49 group and 14.5 million viewers.
We used a linear mixed effects model with change in provisioning rate as the response variable (number of feeds during playback minus number of feeds in control period), with nestling stage (mid/late), partner sex and control feeding rate as explanatory variables.
Following the playbacks, a number of studies additionally took data on the subject's behavior for a given time, for instance, for half an hour after the stimulus was broadcast.
In a separate playback experiment, the number of echolocation pulses of P. pygmaeus increased 14-fold during the playback of distress calls of four endemic species of bat from Madagascar (Emballonura atrata, Myotis goudoti, Miniopterus majori and M. manavi) compared with the playback of silence.
The new feature is entering a public beta today, and will support local playback of a number of file types, says Plex, including MKV, MP4, AVI, and WMV.
It's integrating Google's Widevine technology into its Video Cloud offering, which will allow them to secure playback on a number of connected devices.
