Comments on: Trends & Quick Takes

By: Walt Crawford

Walt Crawford — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:35:06 +0000

Markk: I get the 99% number from Nielsen's latest studies (as in this ''Ars Technica'' report--but you're right, I added an erroneous qualifier. That 99% (98.8%) is video viewed on a television, and certainly includes DVD, DVR, videocassettes, etc. I've fixed the post--and thanks for noting the error. (It's a mistake I shouldn't have made: During the summer, at least, we watch a whole lot more video from DVD than from cable.)

By: Markk

Markk — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:10:02 +0000

Where are you getting the 99% number? I don’t believe it. DVD alone is way more than 1% of video watching. There is a reason Google is losing $500M this year on youtube and spends about $1,000,000 a day for bandwidth, people watch them. Personally I watch about as much sports online as I do off and that is by far the most live TV I watch now. The Masters golf tournament had great online TV this year. All the rest you say is more than true of course.