At 01:28 PM 7/18/2007, Joe Landman wrote:
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.
That's quite plausible (sad, but plausible)
Broadcast TV 782
8.9% of the day watching broadcast TV (2.1 hours)
Consumer Internet 189
I wonder what this means ...
I think that's seeing filmed entertainment via internet (youtube and the like)
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.
Easy, if you have a commute or listen to background music.
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....
But of course...
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?
Sure enough, it does. Thank you for doing your part to keep the average up.
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, ...
I would venture to guess that the average list member is not
representative of the average media consumer. Consider, for
instance, that 100 odd hours per year reading books. I probably
spend half that in the bookstore and library just deciding which books to read.
And, of course, all those nights when I curl up with RGB's clustering
handbook in front of the fire with the cat on my lap don't count,
because that's not really a "consumer book".
But you're right, you're not pulling your weight in keeping the
entertainment industry going. Since I am a former participant in
that industry, I can only say that I think you need to get cracking
and start consuming entertainment media.
James Lux, P.E.
Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group
Flight Communications Systems Section
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena CA 91109
tel: (818)354-2075
fax: (818)393-6875
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