[opendtv] Re: Bundling and competition
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:48:38 -0400
On Sep 11, 2013, at 5:36 PM, "Manfredi, Albert E"
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>
>> I suspect that you don't watch much FOTA anymore, because you like
>> the alternatives better.
>
> The real truth is, as my wife claims btw, that I don't watch TV as much as I
> watch *the* TV.
>
> Connected as it is to a PC, it's just that much more fun all around. PCs are
> the ultimate fun toy, with all manner of gizmos in them that you can screw
> around with, investigate, reconfigure, upgrade, etc. So you watch a fun TV
> program, you listen to music videos of just about any type, you browse web
> sites, you install new drivers or other software, you write a program, all at
> the same time. Pretty hard to beat.
Spoken in the true spirit of the "engineers mind," complete with pocket
protector…
;-)
Looks like Bert's wife and I were both right!
Michael Grotecelli has a blog on Broadcast Engineering that also addresses
similar behavior:
http://broadcastengineering.com/blog/mobile-place-shifting-puts-power-people-s-hands
> A recent study found that mobile viewing is increasing the overall share of
> television viewing, with 72 percent using mobile devices to watch video at
> least weekly, and 42 percent of them doing so outside the home. In another
> change, 75 percent of viewers multitask by using mobile devices while
> watching TV, indicating that television viewing is increasingly becoming a
> multiscreen and multitasking activity.
Regards
Craig
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