Average home has more TVs than people
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The average American home now has more television sets than people. That threshold was crossed within the past two years, according to Nielsen Media Research. There are 2.73 TV sets in the typical home and 2.55 people, the researchers said.
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A poll identifies the strong lure of a widescreen plasma TV.
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It's been possible for years to watch television on a personal computer, but not many people do. The reasons are simple: mediocre picture and sound quality and the ergonomics of it all. TVs don't need to boot up.
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By Rhodri Marsden  Some people are still choosing to have giant plasma televisions whose wide screens and 16:9 aspect ratios dominate the living room, but the emphasis in many homes is now switching from the television set to the computer.
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Most US households would face higher television bills if they only paid for the channels they wanted to watch, US regulators told Congress in a report released on Friday.
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Early estimates suggest demand for digital TVs, MP3 players. and other gadgets are up this year.
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SYDNEY, Australia -- For anyone who's ever clicked the TV remote thinking there must be something better on another channel, it's a dream come true.Researchers have built a room where hundreds of programs appear on a large, wraparound screen.
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By Stephen Ohlemacher  WASHINGTON - Americans spend more time watching TV, listening to the radio, surfing the Internet and reading newspapers than anything else except breathing.
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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Mar. 8--In an ideal world, every time a new TV set or computer monitor was purchased, an old, junky one would be recycled -- rather than being dumped from Skyline Parkway or tossed into a rural ditch or even forgotten in a basement.
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By Stephen Ohlemacher THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  WASHINGTON -- Americans spend more time watching TV, listening to the radio, surfing the Internet and reading newspapers than anything else except breathing.
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Internet TV, mobile TV and video on  demand may be the talk of the technology sector but when it  comes to buying decisions at this week's IFA electronics fair,  television sets are set to be bigger business than ever.
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Nearly half of all Americans have broadband Internet connections in their homes, largely because of increasing use among minorities and the poor, according to an annual survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
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By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe  Sep. 11--THE NEW CENTER OF ATTENTION: Millions of us flip on the TV set  after a hard day's work.    But a large and growing number reach instead for the power buttons on  their home computers.
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CEA says majority of U.S. households now have at least one digital television.
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Americans average 2 hours and 34 minutes of TV a day, compared to 20 minutes a day exercising.
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Over half of online US households are using broadband to access the internet, according to new research.
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By BENJAMIN J. ROMANO, THE SEATTLE TIMES  It's getting harder to tell the difference between a television and a computer.  You might have read something like that in the mid-1990s, but never before have both platforms shared so many capabilities.