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Young People Prefer the Internet over TV

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by chevalier, Nov 30, 2006.

  1. chevalier

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    According to a study by Ofcom, young people prefer the Internet to TV, which is derived from the fact that a third of broadband access possessing young people has watched less TV since obtaining such Internet access. Here's a snip:

    LONDON (Reuters) - The rise of high-speed Internet and the explosion in online video content is fuelling a widespread decline in the number of people watching television according to a worldwide study by Ofcom.

    On average around one-third of consumers with broadband access watch less television since going online the findings, which sampled a thousand people in each country, concluded.

    Well, I'm hardly old myself and I don't watch TV save some crime documents or Discovery/Travel/Planete/National Geographic stuff, so there is some truth in it. What about you?

    Read the rest at Yahoo.
     
    chevalier, Nov 30, 2006
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    If I want to watch a tv show I tend to wait until the next day and then download it instead of watching it live. That way I have the commercials cut out for me, I can pause it etc. The only exception is sports which I will watch live.
     
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    I don't even own a telly. Why pay for a TV license when I wouldn't bother watching it anyway? Internet junkie through and through :p
     
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    I've never been a fan of TV. The only stuff I'd watch on a TV is DVDs, which I can do just fine on my PC. I might watch the news on TV, but even when it comes to this I prefer the internet, because I can pick more freely which news I want to get (and, more importantly, from which sources)
     
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