Year-over-year growth of roughly 50 percent seen, expected

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3 commentsFriday, April 4, 2008

People Increasingly Turn To Computers For TV

Year-over-year growth of roughly 50 percent seen, expected

3 Comments

By Marius Purcaru (WPN reader) - Mon, 04/07/2008 - 13:44

TV vs. PC / Laptop / Notebook... whatever you want to call it.

I have stopped watching movies on tv (or even shows...) just because of the commercial waves that run into our house... It seems that online you don't have that much of them, so... I've decided long time ago to cut the TV and to jump on the online "combat".

I still hope that the commercials will have their own place, since at this moment, they are really forcing people to eat their contents, although most of them don't need it or want it.

By Smilyn (WPN reader) - Sun, 04/06/2008 - 18:08

Availability of TV Shows Online

Most TV shows that would get increased viewing from Australia have blocked overseas visitors from watching. This prevents people from following their favourite shows that may not be airing in Australia anymore or are miles behind in eposides.

I say open this up to everyone and then there may be a bigger shift of users watching TV online. I'd happy watch more TV shows online even if it had the addition of advertisements throughout. I don't expect to get stuff totally free.

By Chris Potter (WPN reader) - Sat, 04/05/2008 - 22:39

Re your article:

We estimate in 2007 that 9% of TV viewers had also watched full-episode Broadcast/Cable Network TV online, up from 6% in 2006; we forecast 14% for 2008, 19% for 2009, and 23% for 2010.

We are not saying that these percentages represent all TV viewing.

Chris Potter, Convergence Consulting