Lexis-Nexis for the TV.

September 12, 2003 12:57 PM

Search your TV. TVEyes offers real-time searching of closed captioned television shows, and alerts you through email, IM and wireless messages. The consumer level only provides excerpts, but what a step towards making all sources of information searchable.
posted by dragoon (4 comments total)

she got a tv eye on me.
posted by Satapher at 1:28 PM on September 12, 2003

Is this legal? Do they have agreements with all the channels they monitor?
posted by fuzz at 5:10 PM on September 12, 2003

Believe it or not, ATi makes a line of video cards that do some things somewhat similar to this...
posted by Ptrin at 5:16 PM on September 12, 2003

Hmm, how often is, say, smegma said on television? Or military-industrial complex?

This could be killer data mining regarding trends and what is and what isn't addressed on television.
posted by skallas at 8:49 PM on September 12, 2003