TV Rival

Stories like below tend to rub me the wrong way. Title implies that the TV is being replaced by Video Game Consoles, DVDs and other sources to watch content.

Reality of this article is that the DVDs are watched on a TV. DVRs are watched on TVs! Blu-Rays are watched on TVs. Netflix movies are watched on TVs. Video Game Consoles are used and connect to/watched on - yes you guessed it.......    TVs.


Now if this article wanted to correctly point out that LIVE TV SHOWS are at risk, that would be one thing, but people jump all over this as cutting the cord crap and watching content on Laptop and mobile device and such as gaining significant ground on enjoying content on TV.

You have to be kidding! So let's get it right folks! We love our TVs, we love watching all sorts of stuff and playing games on our TV.

You can NOT replicate a 40" - 70" TV experience on a 3-10" screen.

Thank you!

JZ

TV Rival: Video Games, DVDs On Rise

by Wayne Friedman, Yesterday, 10:47 AM

SHARE TOOLS       RELATED ARTICLES TAGS: Entertainment, Mobile, Gaming, Video MOST READ Alternative devices for viewing TV/entertainment content have been growing -- but nowhere has this gain been more evident than with video-game devices. Knowledge Networks says that in 2011, playback/recorded content via video-game devices amounts to 12% of all 13- to-54-year-olds who watch streamed or downloaded TV programs or movies through a video-game system at least once a month. The biggest category for alternative TV viewing, according to the survey, is DVDs -- which register 60%, slightly down from the 2010 total of 62%. DVR content, the second-largest category -- increased to 36% from 34%. Streaming video over a PC rose to 24% from 20%. Video On Demand services followed, grabbing 20% from its previous number of 17%. Blu-Ray usage was also up 14%, from 8%. Netflix also continues to see big growing numbers. Forty-nine percent of its current customer base have used the service in less than a year. The service has around 22 million subscribers. The study says 46% of all 13- to-54-year-olds have used Netflix at least once, with 35% watching at least one TV or movie on a monthly basis. Fify-two percent of Netflix customers are between 13 and 31; 46% are 32 to 45; and 35% are 46 to 54 years old. Concerning new technology and Netflix, 11% of its broad swath of consumers 13-64 have used the service via mobile device. The biggest use here comes from its 13-31 customers, at 17%. Older boomers have only used Netflix via a mobile device at a 3% rate.