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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.
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
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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?
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.
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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.
LMOL TV is broadcast....ok Potsy....
"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....
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.