How The Tablet PC Is Transforming Our TV Watching Habits
Few could have imagined when Apple launched the iPad, how quickly the tablet market would grow, and how they would help in bringing the new dawn of digital TV to the masses. A Nielsen survey of around 12,000 connected device owners showed that 70% of tablet owners said they use their devices while watching television, and 57% of tablet owners use their device in bed, when we usually watch TV.
The humble tablet could transform TV watching
Most TV networks, from Netflix and Hulu Plus amongst many, have apps and websites that run on tablet devices (the HBO Go app was downloaded a million times in the first week of release). Google TV will be running soon on Android, and everyone is scrambling for a piece of the tablet TV market.
Every study is predicting that the tablet market will explode in the next couple of years. According to the USC Marshall Institute for Communication, tablet ownership will double by 2012. By the year 2014, Gartner is predictingsales will surpass 208 million units. tablets in circulation. And when we reach 2015, Forrester Research predicts that over a third of consumers will have and use a tablet PC.
Tablets will soon take over from old fashioned remote controllers, already many companies let you control whats on TV from your tablet. It is not only content and streaming TV that the tablet PC brings, many content providers are providing apps that integrate with whatever show your watching.
Add social options, catch-up and a real workable mobile TV option and you have a device that is made for TV. The smartphone promised to influence TV, but the tablet is just much more suitable. The extra screen size makes the tablet an essential component of our multi-screened TV future.
To back up the claims, new research shows that watching TV on tablets is growing to 3 hours per month.
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