Hi all,

I'm a Nigerian student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania in the United States. My major is Computer Science (with
a specialization in Information Security Technology).

I'm rounding up my program within a year, and I've been considering
several different project's to pursue for my thesis. Naturally,
considering that I came from Nigeria in the last year, I decided to
focus one of my possible projects around one of our rapidly growing
industries - the movie industry.

I have set up a survey on Zoomerang for interested people to fill and
help me decide if this concept is worthy of the effort I would
especially like to invest in it. The URL to this survey is:

http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB224GW5MVZ2S

Plese take some time to assist me in filling out this survey. And also
if you could forward it to your friends or other individuals that you
consider may be interested, I would be most appreciative. The survey
is short and shouldn't take you more than 15 minutes to fill.

Thanks so much.

Ugo Enyioha
MSISTM/INI
Carnegie Mellon University

Please feel free to email me at uenyioha@andrew.cmu.edu if you have any questions. No spam please.

The survey is about personal video recorders (PVR), video devices that allow users to save television programs so that they can watch them later, using a hard disk and sophisticated software. I've taken a look but I'm yet to fill it at this point.

Ugo, are you these questions are specifically meant for people living in Nigeria/Africa? How come the final question is, "which country are you taking this survey from? (USA, UK, Other)"

A very important component of the system is internet access - high speed internet access. My estimates at the moment tell me that DSL would be the minimum for a "usable" consumer experience. Now I'm not very sure how prevalent DSL is in Nigeria at the moment. But I've been reading about Globacom's Progress - so tell me more if you know anything?

I left Nigeria out of the multiple choice questions because the survey was initially targeted to Africans outside of Nigeria. But I've been getting some interesting feedback from there. It runs for 10 days. I'll add Nigeria to the new one I will run thereafter.