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Americans Have Fewer TVs On Average Than They Did In 2009 (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Americans went from having an average of 2.6 TVs per household in 2009 to having 2.3 TVs in 2015, according to survey data from the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA). The data comes from the agency's Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS), which has been conducted periodically since the 1970s to understand American energy use. The 2015 survey included 5,600 respondents who were contacted in person and then given an option to follow up by mail or online. A fine-detail report on the survey results is due to be released in April 2017. The latest data shows that in 2015, 2.6 percent of households had no TV at all, a jump from the previous four surveys in 2009, 2005, 2001, and 1997 in which a steady 1.2 to 1.3 percent of households didn't own a TV. The 2015 data also showed that the number of people with three TVs or more dropped in 2015. That year, 39 percent of households had more than three TVs, whereas 44 percent had more than three TVs in 2009. Interestingly, the number of households with one or two TVs increased in 2015 to 58 percent, from 54 percent in 2009.
I have it upon good authority that they also have less buggy whips.
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How is that interesting. The whole article is that the 3+ television category went down. How is it interesting, or even not tautological, that the other two categories (0, 1-2) go up?
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I know when I upgraded from pre-digital capable TVs to the new HD TVs... I went way down in TV ownership. I disposed of 5 older TVs, and replaced it with one new TV. Once the last 5 years, I've since upgraded that new TV, and put the older one in a second room.
My parents, and many of my friends are the same way. They went from a TV in every room, to one main one... and as the main one was upgraded the others have slowly moved to other living spaces.
My interpretation is different. The kids are on their iPhone, the mom is on Pinterest and the dad is talking to fake women on Ashley Madison.
lucm, indeed.
I'd love to know how much video is consumed per household? Back in 2009, you had a TV in the family room and then probably one in the master bedroom and one in the kids' bedroom(s). Now if you've got a family of 5, you've probably got 5 devices that can all stream video (phones, tablets, tv, roku/chromecast... ).
I'd be American's are watching far more video today than ever before. Very few parents advocate having their 2yr old watch TV, but plenty of them believe $kids_app will make their 2yr old more successful in getting into Stanford or MIT.
Not seeing iy, my 70+ year old parents and brother who moved back in with them to help - Have 6 Screens. 3 bedrooms, the living room, basement crash pad and kitchen.
I have three - one for the Roku, one for my PC, one in the laundry room dedicated solely for the camera system.
I think this is fake news - there is something called an LED screen that television is watched on that is most likely not being counted.
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Especially if it's "one turd" of a Tv.
lucm, indeed.
watching tv is stupid
Isn't that what he's saying? Monitors don't have ota TV tuners. More people are using monitors in place of TV's. OTA TV therefore, is on the decline. The article missed the forest. Streaming, as we all know, is become our future.
Indeed. I suspect the tuner-TV combo is close to its final generation. We have a TV, but it's probably our last. All watching is done on computers. We have a HD-Homerun that tunes and dumps the video onto ethernet, which is enormously more useful. The youngsters seem to watch everything on phones. Presumably the children of the youngsters will be watching TV on their 5th generation iWatches.
It'll only take 2 generations to die off and the TV will seem like a quaint throwback and OTA TV transmission will be switched off and the spectrum sold to the highest bidder.
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Wowzers, you talked to 5,600 people, out of 320,000,000+ in this country.
You link to EIA info that shows a +4% increase in one-two TV owners.
5000+ is a perfectly fine sample size providing it's a properly randomized sample. Of course it's never a properly randomized sample when it comes to household surveys.
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What I don't get is why people WANT to watch movies on their phones or tablets instead of reclined in a sofa, looking at a 50" screen or bigger.
Ignoring the question of OTA, Cable, Satellite or streaming, wouldn't YOU prefer looking at a big screen while eating popcorn or other snacks?
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Most households have at least one TV. That will be the big screen. But if you want to watch something different from the rest of the family, curling up with a tablet is okay for a lot of media. I'd probably be happy with this if I didn't want to play a console video game from time to time.
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I had to cut back on the number of TVs because of those increases due to digital encryption. $20+ per month for a set-top box, what a rip off.
Last time I checked there were six broadcast networks that develop lots of new scripted content (ABC, CBS, CW, FOX, NBC, PBS), and just based on what I get out of my digital tuner, there are at least thirty other channels in my area, of which at least a dozen are national networks running either reruns of scripted content or else human-interest content. That's just the english-language stations that aren't religious in nature.
As a child I remember there being five networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and the newly formed FOX) and two local stations, one VHF, one UHF. Even ten years ago there were only probably ten stations broadcasting here, the six networks (if UPN and WB's merger had happened by that point) a couple of local stations, and a couple of those national networks that play reruns.
OTA broadcasting is far from dead. If anything it's increasing as existing affiliate stations are able to license-out their subchannels without impacting their original content. For the consumer this is a good thing and should be encouraged, as it's a way to attempt to diversify holdings so that more players, rather than less, control access to content.
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It wasn't meant to be snark... I was saying that people my age (ahem, old) might be less picky about crappy TVs, since even a cheap tablet is superior to what I grew up with.
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