Solve : Do Americans Now Watch Internet and not TV??

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Do Americans Now Watch Internet and not TV?
About four years some 'expert' said:
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U.S. Online Video VIEWING to Eclipse Broadcast TV by 2020

He under saw it. It is now.Right?
He also said:
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Online video is still in its infancy, with U.S. viewers only watching 22 minutes of Internet-delivered programming a week. However, in 10 years, that will rise to more than two hours of online video a day, TDG analyst Colin Dixon told me today.
One of the reasons behind such a forecast is the growing importance of devices capable of delivering Internet video straight to your TV, according to Dixon. He pointed to Google TV, which was announced by the search engine giant yesterday, as it’s capable of combining broadcast programming with online video. These two worlds will continue to grow together, he said, adding: “Consumers won’t be thinking ‘I’m watching online video;’ they’ll be thinking, ‘I’m watching TV’.”

That is so dated! With TV sit cons now on places like Netflix and Hulu, you can watch continuous video c streams for hours while eating snack food and gaining pounds. Then find another stream about how to lose the weight you put on.

Brut who cares? Well, if you work in TV advertising, you will be looking for a job.
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Netflix Long Term View
Internet TV is replacing linear TV.
Apps are replacing channels,
remote controls are disappearing,
and screens are proliferating.
As Internet TV grows from millions to billions,
Netflix is leading the way around the world.

From http://ir.netflix.com/long-term-view.cfm
Forbes takes this as a real serious thing:
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Statisticians and bean counters always make a big deal out of how many people watch a MAJOR television event like the Super Bowl. Roughly 111.5 million people watched the Seattle Seahawks trample the Denver Broncos in this year’s championship football game.
“Wow!” we exclaim. “That’s an enormous TV audience.”
But like Denver’s sputtering offense, that number shrinks when compared to other forms of viewing. While the Super Bowl is a three-hour annual event, there are WEB properties that draw in millions of viewers each and every day.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinharrington/2014/03/06/changing-the-way-we-watch-tv/
Does it matter?As for myself / household... I did away with Cable TV a few years ago, and now just pay $49.95 per month vs almost $90 per month. I'd actually go for a cheaper $34.95 package if I could do so, but I need the 7/1 bandwidth and wouldnt be able to get by on 3/1 mb/s bandwidth of the basic broadband that comcast offers.

I was sick and tired of paying for cable tv that has become increasingly full of commercials as well as they strategically tore the most popular channels into seperate packages such as seperating Nick and Disney which caused us initially to have to give the choice to our 7 yr old daughter as to... which channels do you need the most. And she wanted both, but I refused to pay for both. As far as commercials go, they seemed more frequent as well. And having netflix and other streaming options with content of my choice any time of day without commercials in most situations, I said goodbye to cable tv.

What also helped was giving my wife and daughter their own computers so they can watch whatever they want online, so the 3 of us can be all in the livingroom watching the same thing THRU the streaming bluray player or watching 3 seperate videos etc. And we are much happier now and its cheaper.

For content that we were unable to view online, mostly for content that my daughter needed such as SpongeBob Square Pants, I found that WalMart was selling the complete seasons of it on DVD for like $12.96 each season and since I also like that cartoon for the embedded adult content that is mixed in, I bought some of the complete seasons and so we can watch spongebob whenever we want without commercials.


So.... we watch Internet and Offline DVD/BluRay discs and havent had cable tv in a couple years and we dont MISS it.