Joe Landman wrote:
Jim Lux wrote:
At 10:38 AM 7/18/2007, Joe Landman wrote:
Jim Lux wrote:
The average person spends roughly 3700 hours per year consuming
enetertainment, of which more than 3500 are some form of audio or
video (i.e. not reading)
I would love to hear where that data came from.
Here's the breakdown... hours per person per year
for year 2004
Filmed Entertainment:
Cable and Satellite TV 1010
Whoa... 1010 hours?
Thats 11.5% of a day, every day, watching cable tv ... 3 hours.
Broadcast TV 782
8.9% of the day watching broadcast TV (2.1 hours)
Consumer Internet 189
I wonder what this means ...
Home Video 78
Box Office 13 (e.g. movies and live theater)
Interactive TV 3
Subtotal 2075
Uh... I must be wayyyyy behind in my entertainment quota. Will the
entertainment police stop by and force me to watch Oprah?
Other
Broadcast and satellite radio: 1035
Er... Another 3 hours per day.
Recorded music 180
Daily Newspapers 169
Consumer Magazines 118 (obviously, this doesn't include reading Trans
ACM)
Consumer Books 107
Video Games 71 (which seems low to me, but perhaps its strangely
defined)
Subtotal 1680
These were summarized in a presentation I got a few years back, but
they're based on data (in part) from a source like this:
http://www.mpaa.org/USEntertinmentIndustryMarketStats.pdf
which has 2006 numbers..
ummmm someone (mpaa cough cough) is *seriously* overestimating some
things.
Take a look at slide #49
Now, clearly, these numbers are used as marketing stuff for filmed
entertainment, so they're going to try and show as much film and as
Yeah....
Ok, I am just caught up with how wrong their data seems. I have
internet radio on in the background while I code/think... does that make
it 16 hours a day I consume things?
Am I alone in thinking these numbers are screwy? Or I am so far behind
in my own self-entertainment quota that a month long vacation is
mandated with a force fed diet of DRM protected movies, radio, ...
If I allowed data like this to creep into presentations or theses my
grad students put forward, I'd lose my job! I realize my entertainment
often looks like revising weather models, and my wife thinks I should
take her to more movies but I couldn't achieve these numbers even if I
was what passes for Normal in our home town!
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