According to a study conducted by consulting firm Deloitte, approximately 9 percent of users subscribing to premium television programming such as cable or satellite TV ditched those services in favor of online options during 2011. With more than 2,000 respondents between the ages of 14 to 75 participating in the survey, eleven percent are considering “cutting the cord” during 2012 since they believe their favorite television shows are already available online. Beyond that group, an additional 15 percent want to try out movies and television shows via online digital sources in the upcoming months.
Younger consumers between the ages of 23 to 28 were are the most likely to “cut the cord” in 2012 with nearly one-fifth of that age range considering the move. As age increases, Americans are less likely to ditch cable or satellite service. Only seven percent of people between the ages of 46 and 64 are considering the change and just five percent of people beyond 65 years of age are doing the same. However, many respondents value DVR service like TiVo almost as much as premium TV service and 80 percent of respondents have no plans to stop paying for cable or satellite service this year.
The study also found that increased accessibility to online media has driven usage up over the last two years. With set-top boxes, gaming consoles, smart televisions, Blu-ray players and smartphones offering access to digital media such as movies, the amount of people streaming movies has risen from 28 percent in 2009 to 42 percent in 2011. In addition, the amount of people that prefer watching a movie through a streaming source rose from 4 percent in 2009 to 14 percent in 2011. Other devices, like eBook readers and smartphones, have increased the amount of people consuming newspapers, books and magazines on a digital device over the paper alternative. The survey also found there are many more homes with smartphones in the U.S. as that number jumped from 25 percent in 2009 to 42 percent in 2011.
Yea, I found myself using Sidereel links for at least 3 preminum shows.
I’m not surprised by this, considering the amount of money that Comcast wants for just its sh*tty Cable TV service alone. Give them $80 a month for a giant pile of sh*t channels, and you still have to watch a bunch of f*cking commercials on top of that.
My fam stopped watching tv/cable 4-5 years ago.We opted out of the brainwashing.So many people are addicted.Time to wake up.This yr will be a wake up call for all.There will be no power towards the end of the yr for the whole planet.Can’t wait to see what happens.”-”~Namaste
and what about our future? xD
im from germany,and 1 and a halfyear or around tthat,ive been made aware of the fact, that the future of broadcasting, gaining information and amusement will shift tothe interne. and by saying this, that we should all start of rethinking /thinking of a new way, involving that fact in our thoughts about how we want to entertain and inform the futures society. but im happy to be aware of the fact, that the internet is a place where you can create all that stuff and put it together in the way that i / all the ones that use internet like it, and this, i think, is making som rich people a little bit mad :-) in the last weeks ive been discussing with my phylosophy class on the relyabiliti ofinternet sources, and what we can believe at all. cause since the past 10 years, we almost had nothing else to believe in except what newspapers and television had been teling us. now, that this is about to change: how do we handle that power, who takes care of what we can believe and what not? who is in charge? our new society has to learn to think in a way that everything we hear and read and watch; we should always question it, look at different sources and rely on our own untelligence, moral and ethic. i think this is societys new path, nd wewould be off better to insert that way of thinking as soon as possible in our educational system. not only when we raech our mental “grown up” state, but in a playful way even in elementary school. thats what i think, how about you?
I’m not surprised by this, considering the amount of money that Comcast wants for just its shitty Cable TV service alone. Give them $80 a month for a giant pile of shit channels, and you still have to watch a bunch of fucking commercials on top of that.