TV going mobile, wordwide; tablet use skyrocketing

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – When it comes to trading in their TV sets for iPads, Turkey leads the world. This according to NPD DisplaySearch’s Global TV Replacement Study, which surveyed 14,000 TV owners in regions around the world, and found that the use of tablets by consumers for viewing TV/video content more than doubled in 14 regional markets surveyed in the past year. In Turkey, tablet use grew from 3.1% in 2011 to 16.5% in 2012. NPD also noted strong tablet usage growth in Germany (up nearly four times), as well as France and the U.S. (both up more than...