Do You Watch TV on Your PC / iPod / Smartphone?

A bit of interesting trivia from eMarketer™ Daily: more and more people are watching TV on their PCs, iPods, and mobile phones:

Desktop computer— 75%
Laptop computer— 46%
Portable video player— 16%
iPod— 13%
Mobile phone— 13%

How are you watching your favorite TV shows? I hardly watch any (History Channel or National Geographic anyone?), but when I do, it's on our large screen Samsung LDP projection TV. How retro ... but it's 16:9 HDTV dimension, I wrote about in a previous post.



Picture courtesy Viewsonic Corp.

Microsoft Knocks Itself Out Via SearchVideo

This true. I found out yesterday. Double checked today. On PCs with Windows you get to see only the Grey Rotating Arrow of Death, like this one:




for the SearchVideo widget I installed inder the logo in the right column a bare 2 days ago. However, it turns out about 95% of the videos found and served up by this new AOL search engine/service is for XBox 360 games, accompanied by lots of MS ads ;-(

LOL...and don't bother installing the very latest Flash player and browser: IE 7, Firefox 2, Opera 9 either. None works with this SearchVideo widget. Which is for the best, I swear. You can take my rotating arrow for it...if you are one of the lucky Windows users.