Nielsen shows how people use TV differently

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By DAVID BAUDER

NEW YORK (AP) - The number of U.S. homes that don't get traditional television service continues to increase, but that doesn't mean they don't have TVs.

The Nielsen company said in a report issued on Tuesday that three-quarters of the estimated 5 million homes that don't get TV signals over the airways or through cable, satellite or telecommunications companies have televisions anyway.

Many of these homes are satisfied to use their TVs for games or get programming through DVDs or services like Netflix or Apple TV, said Dounia Turrill, senior vice president for client insights at Nielsen.

The company's report shows how the nature of TV service is slowly changing. Before the percentage started declining about three years ago, more than 99 percent of TV homes received the traditional TV signals. Now that has dipped just below 96 percent.

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[ghurley]

1. I'm part of the 4% :)

[Skittles]

3. ditto

I have no use for cable TV

[musiclawyer]

2. Very soon me too

Just waiting for soccer season to end then I'm all apple tv amazon Netflix MLS live

That 4% is going to start increasing exponentially

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Given that most households can receive over the air signals without subscribing

it seems to me that it won't be exponential. I would think the 4% are those who didn't want to spend money on being able to receive digital broadcast signals, or who live in remote areas where there isn't a decent signal. But since new TVs are now all digitally capable, this will not be a significantly growing sector.

[Kolesar]

4. Netflix removes movies after a period of time

I have perused their listings and never found what I wanted to watch. I doubt if Netflix would suit me.

[Hestia]

6. We bought a Roku (after reading about them on this board) and subscribed to Hulu Plus, Amazon,

Netflix, et al. Amazon charges for old movies, which I find ludicrous. Example, for some strange reason a couple of weeks ago, DH & I wanted to wanted to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie and the only place we could find it was at amazon for $1.99. WTFH? For a 1995 movie? WTH didn't Netflix have it? Also, CBS is one of the networks that doesn't allow streaming of their programs - go look, not one CBS show through Hulu or Netflix. ABC only does the last couple of aired episodes on their programming. TNT & TBS don't put their episodes up either. You have to go buy the Season DVD's. When I was reading the comments about the Roku's the one complaint was sparseness of programming. TNT you can stream online *only* if you have a Directv account. Kinda defeats the purpose there, plus they do not put up each and every episode of their shows. Hulu still shows commercials btw, just not near as many of them. I dunno - I do wish there were more programs to make it 100% worth it, right now? Probably 55%.