TiVo.com | TiVo Press Releases

Apparently, just over 4 out of 5 Americans eschew electronic censorship when it comes to their TV set.

TiVo.com | TiVo Press Releases:

81 percent of all Americans do not utilze any blocking technology that prevents programming with a certain rating from coming into their homes.

That is according to the results of a survey by Ipsos Research on behalf of TiVo, who just introduced a new TiVo KidZone.

With TiVo KidZone turned on, children can only watch shows that have been put on a special whitelist of shows picked as OK by their parents.

TiVo KidZone Guides will help parents find shows that other people think they should let their kids watch.

Hmmm....

Special Investigative Report on Global Warming
One Hour Special on Ronald Regan Lifetime Accomplishments
Expose on Big Scandal Involving Parent Company of One of the TV Networks
News Story on Health Benefits of Eating Cereal Made With Refined Sugar
In-depth Report on Next Year's Hybrid Cars
News Story Explaining Why We Cannot Do Anything About the High Price of Gasoline and It Is Nobody's Fault
Hot Story About Special Orders In Light of Recent Outbreak of Avian Flu
Special on Problems with the effectiveness of a new H5N1 vaccine
Two hour special on Traditional American Values
Expose about funding for Two hour special on Traditional American Values

The survey is pretty interesting and there are 4 different questions for which they report the survey results. If you have kids, you might be interested in reading it.

I am kind of skeptical about what shows a parent wants their kid to watch being something that can be picked by any panel of experts with both great precision and accuracy. Personally, I think parents are still going to be on the hook for glancing at what their kids are watching.

What would be kind of cool is if they had some way social website for reviewing TV shows. That is a little hard to do as far as specific episodes of specific TV shows go, since you cannot review/tag/rate it before you see it! But they could do it for TV series and TV movies that have already played/aired before.

That probably covers about 95 percent of what is on TV, except at the beginning of a new TV season.

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