Broadband in New Zealand stealing TV viewers
By Leah McBride Mensching, Thursday 22 May 2008 at 23:49 :: World Digital Media Trends :: #1694 :: rss
Although many New Zealanders do not have a broadband connection, those that do are spending much more time online than watching television, a new Cisco survey has found, The New Zealand Herald reported Thursday.
People with high-speed Internet access spend an average of 22 hours a week surfing the Internet, compared with 14 hours watching TV, the Cisco Connected Consumers survey shows.
New Zealand broadband users spent an average of 48 hours a week on “media-related activities,” in which 36 hours are spent on the Internet and television, 10 hours is spent on music and two hours are spent playing games, the technology company's survey stated, according to The New Zealand Herald. The figures include online time spent at work.
Sixty-one percent of respondents said they watched videos online, while only 47 percent downloaded music.
Using the Internet to watch videos is because online, viewers can better “time-shift” and “place-shift,” Jay Shutter, managing director of research company Illuminas, which ran the survey, told The New Zealand Herald. “Most people are recording content or downloading content because they want to see it at a more convenient time, so if they missed an episode of Lost or they missed a rugby game they can certainly then go online and watch it at a later time.”




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