Buck told Cowherd, sounding serious, that the length of baseball games can test viewer patience in a way that football games do not, partly because of the N.F.L.'s weekly pace.
And it raised hopes that audiences will respond in large numbers to a number of studio films like "Pineapple Express" from Sony Pictures Entertainment and Tropic Thunderr" from DreamWorks and Paramount, which, in the coming weeks, will test viewer willingness to turn out in large numbers for something other than repeat performances.
A controversial Hitler movie, "Downfall", will be shown in Israel, after 91% of test viewers voted for its release.
For example, in a test, PBS and Ken Burns worked with Intel to make Mr. Burns's program on Frank Lloyd Wright interactive, giving the test viewers a virtual-reality tour of Wright buildings.
There are no supertitles in "The Fight" to identify the participants in the film; some people who turn up are named in the course of the events, but the rest of them test viewers' knowledge and discernment.
Like Coursera, Udacity's online classes are interactive and feature embedded quizzes that test viewers on the material as they're watching.
According to Krausz, GazeHawk's future plans include a number of extra features, better visualizations, allowing people to use their own test viewers, and eventually expansion in to the UX industry — Creating product based on tester feedback, i.e. what people want to see.
The results look like the dial tests viewers often see at the bottom of their television screens during presidential debates, except that they reflect the average of hundreds of people, not just 30 in a studio.
However, the complex storyline tested viewers' patience because "mysteries pile upon one another before the answers start spilling forth in the second half [of the series]." Despite this complaint, Last Exiles action sequences and cliffhangers compelled viewers to wait and see these mysteries resolved.
In a world of formulaic screenplays and often unengaging American independent films, though, their ideas-based movies enthrall even as they test the viewer's patience.
I test the viewer's inner vision and examine if what we see is what we think we see".
