New Research: On-line viewing surpasses PVRs, VOD

TORONTO – More Canadians now catch their favourite TV shows on-line than by personal video recorders and video-on-demand combined.According to results from the Q4 edition of Digital Life Canada, Solution Research Group’s quarterly trend survey, 50% of on-line Canadians watched TV on-line at some point in the past, and 25% said they did so in the past week. Only 13% said that they watched a show on a PVR or cable on-demand (10%) in the past week. But most on-line viewing is still catch-up, the research determined, with 53% of respondents saying that they watched on-line most recently because they...