Re: Time Shifting And Online Make Up Nearly Half Of All Viewing

Time shifting makes up about 80-90% of my viewing time.  The remaining 10-20% consists of live sporting events and movie rentals from NetFlix.  I don’t use VOD or any of the online services.  I will, on occasion, download a missed episode of a program via bittorrent sites in mkv format.  Other than that, I avoid the online providers with extreme prejudice.  I also find their quality severely lacking.  I don’t mind paying Verizon for quality content in HD on FIOS.  I just wish they’d be willing to sell me a bundle of channels that I’d actually watch.

Wideband providers have been placing a cap on downloads for years.  They just don’t inform their customers until they spot excessive use of bandwidth.  Talk about baiting and switching!  They try and entice you to use their services and then threaten to cut you off if you use them too much.