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The Internet Is Finally Going To Be Bigger Than TV Worldwide (qz.com)
According to estimates from media agency Zenith, next year, for the first time, people will spend more time using the internet than watching TV. People will spend an average of 170.6 minutes a day, or nearly three hours, using the internet in 2019. That's a tad more than the 170.3 minutes they're expected to spend watching TV. Quartz reports: Zenith measured media by how they are transmitted or distributed, such as broadcasts via TV signals and newspapers in print. Watching videos on the web through platforms like Netflix and YouTube, or reading a newspaper's website, counted as internet consumption. Nearly one-quarter of all media consumption across the globe will be through mobile this year, up from 5% in 2011. The average person will spend a total of about eight hours per day consuming media in its many forms this year, Zenith forecasts.
In some parts of the world, TV will remain on top -- for now. Zenith forecasted media consumption through 2020 and did not expect the internet to overtake TV in Europe, Latin America, and the whole of North America in that time. In the U.S., it was projected to surpass TV in the U.S. in two years.
In some parts of the world, TV will remain on top -- for now. Zenith forecasted media consumption through 2020 and did not expect the internet to overtake TV in Europe, Latin America, and the whole of North America in that time. In the U.S., it was projected to surpass TV in the U.S. in two years.
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The next generation won't know what 'television' means. Sure, you will still be able to buy a Television, but broadcast/cable/satellite will refer to Internet connectivity methods. They'll think it's quaint that people set their schedule around certain shows only being watchable at certain times.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
But...
If you measuring by "time spent" you're already onto a statistical problem.
It's SO MUCH quicker for me to watch an episode of something on Netflix than on TV that it's laughable. And I watch exactly what I want and then switch off. And I don't have ads, and intros, and recaps, etc.
I imagine that Internet is already used much more than TV for such viewing. But because the Internet is about "I want to watch X and nothing else", and TV is about "I'll wait for X to come on, and then sit through any", it won't win on "minutes" but I bet it wins on "episodes".
TV is dead. Scheduled programming is dead. It's either "live" (a minority of special events) or "on-demand" and there's no need for anything in between. It's just a question of how long, to be honest.
(-- Does not own a TV. Does not watch broadcast TV. I have a projector, a smartphone and a laptop. The closest I get is TVPlayer, which I got for a year on a special deal and which relays broadcast TV legally over the web to your devices. It works. I barely touch it. For almost everything it's easier to just wait a few hours and pick up from catch-up at my leisure, with pause and all kinds of features to make viewing more comfortable. Maybe, just maybe, if aliens landed or something, I'd watch it for one source of live news, but that's it. But I'd still watch the majority online.).
Is this that old "I don't watch TV, I only watch [insert internet-delivered TV service]" chestnut where people claim they're not one and the same?
When was the last time you enjoy the unbelievably gorgeous view of sunrise?
Stop wasting so much of your life online (and in front of the idiot tube).
Go out, live your life, as intended !!
It is growing continuously day by day.
No news here, carry on! It happened a long time ago...
Since creimer sat on it a few decades ago and tried to grab all the attention, the Internet has always been bigger and heavier than TV.
Dupe, by the way...
In the old days, people came into work and had conversations about soaps, now they have conversations about BuzzFeed articles and Twitch stars. Not sure much has changed - most people are passive consumers of low-effort content.
because it will be live streaming on the internets
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
How will they control their cattle (goyim) now? By censoring everything you post on the internet, and by making sure they keep you in your little Left wing bubble when you use Google and Youtube, that's how.
Neither link says how they count streaming TV services like Sling or DirecTV Now. I made the switch a few months ago, how's my TV consumption being counted? What about when I open a Roku channel and watch live TV through it? Is it counted differently if I use it to watch something that aired yesterday?
Here comes the edgelord.
You just lit the fuse, you fucking HOMO. You just unleashed the fury.
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Parse the logic with me, millennials: tv is moving pictures. Streaming and the web are moving pictures. If people are watching tv online, it isn't 'THE INTERNET HAS LEGIT KILLED TVS ASS'. You are describing a signal, a method of delivery, and that is not an equivalency. In fact, nothing has changed one iota, right down to the greedy providers, even if names are different. So much for the egalitarian and revolutionary web. :/ All millennials have managed to do with it is turn it into cable TV. Thanks. Thanks a lot (why millennials? Because advertisers and corporations know you are green and gullible and will do anything for attention or to feel 'special', and they want your money and loyalty, so you are and have been very directly targeted by them). You do not sound astute or intelligent with posts like this one. You sound like you've played right into their hands masterfully, and you actually DO deserve a trophy for that, no one has ever done it better.
If Netflix isn't considered TV but you're comparing TV with "internet" then their entire comparison is completely meaningless. Netflix is as far in the TV direction as you can get. Yes, behind the scenes it gets onto the TV by using the internet, but that has jack shit with human behavior and preferences, society or anything else. It's basically just a mundane technical detail about how a certain wire is multiplexed.
"Believe me!" -- Donald Trump
Internet-delivered TV is on-demand; TV is broadcast.
The audience is no longer captive, which is especially dangerous for the propagan^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H "News" programs.
The original TOS had terrible numbers, except among the demographic advertisers would later cherish above all others. (Advertisers are slow on the uptake.) So there it was, TOS hanging by a budgetary thread throughout its lame third season.
This is what you get when you grant an implied equivalency to exhausted eyeballs playing out the string to the tune of Maury Povich or Kim Kardashian to a smart-ass teenager with a working brain binge-watching Crash Course History.
This particular "more than" bucket (Internet v. television) is fit to make a clueless Mad Man weep a saline river for the lost marketing paradise of Atlantis—where all eyeballs were equal unto the market, as stipulated by the Nielson Ratings Equivalency Act of 1951 BCE.
[*] Altanteans routinely over-simplified their public sphere by decree, all the better to free up more time for "doing it" in such an immense variety of non-procreative ways (nascent gills add so many buoyancy options) that finally God was forced to summon up a wet, wet, wet collective express train to hell. Turns out, there are some cultural channels that even God can not bear to watch, day in and day out. Povich apparently makes the grade, where Atlantis didn't. These Altanteans, so much skin, and their guts don't even churn—simply unbearable. Be gone, channel, be gone.
Good grief, spare a clue for what you're lumping together.
"Zenith measured media by how they are transmitted or distributed, such as broadcasts via TV signals and newspapers in print. Watching videos on the web through platforms like Netflix and YouTube, or reading a newspaper's website, counted as internet consumption."
So watching YouTube on TV counts as....
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Yields more security/speed/reliability/anonymity vs. any SINGLE solution (99% of threats = hostnames vs. IP address (that most firewalls use)) more efficiently/FASTER + NATIVELY 4 less!
(... Vs. "Bolt on 'MoAr' illogic-logic" competitors slowing you, hosts speed you up 2 ways (adblocks + hardcodes u spend most time @) vs. competition loaded w/ bugs (DNS/AntiVir) + their overheads (messagepass ('souled-out' to advertiser addons) + filtering drivers) & their complexity leads to exploitation).
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P.S.=> Enjoy - it's much better vs. the Windows model on many fronts (speed & efficiency + new "merge" feature))... apk
Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017
(APK's work), I've flat out said it's good by BronsCon February 11 2016
his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015
I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015
I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home by OrangeTide December 01 2017
I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017
* See subject: Best part is this Linux 64-bit model is faster & more efficient (does 2x the work in 1/2 the time, literally)
APK
P.S.=> Enjoy a faster/safer + more reliable internet... apk
This is exactly the issue. Not that "Internet" is being mean to "TV". Media Programming comes to your house. It could be by a "dedicated" cable, which is probably a misnome,r since that very same cable may be bringing you Internet. Or it could come by Satellite. Or it could come via an application running on your Desktop/Laptop/Tablet/Alexa/Toilet? What is going away is having a single way to watch the media content. So the loser here isn't "TV", but Cable/Satellite providers who can no longer monopolize your access. However...with the recent death of Net Neutrality, and the approval of AT&T's purchase/merger with Time Warner, we may quickly wind up in the same boat, with our media coming from our "Internet Provider", who is now free to offer a "Package" of content and block/hinder other media delivery. Well, it was fun while it lasted!
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They left off one more option in the answers:
C) I watch TV and surf the web simultaneously.
That's where you're wrong, my friend.
My TV has a 16:10 aspect ratio.
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Between the Eternal September### I don't think it was the flood of AOL newbies when that online service began offering Usenet access in 1993 that killed Usenet, it was all of the spam, flooders, kooks of all stripes, and finally the rise of web based forums, and ISPs deciding to shut down or not have their own Usenet servers which killed it. Usenet is still around, but it is just a very faint shadow of it's former self. I miss Usenet
The delivery method and how people watch their shows is changing, but the shows and popularity are still the same. TV isn't going anywhere anytime soon.