What percentage of your media consumption is streamed?
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Tricky (Score:5, Insightful)
Most of my video, but almost none of my music. But I'm not sure how those two compare percentage-wise. And what about books? Do those count as media? I certainly don't stream even e-books. (Except, arguably, through O'Reilly's Safari program, which might count.) But then there's news media, which is almost entirely streamed. If you count visiting web-pages as streaming.
Honestly, I'm really not sure. Depending on how I measure, I might be able to come up with a number anywhere from 20 to 80.
Definitions (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Tricky (Score:5, Insightful)
How about minutes of media? Text doesn't count, as it isn't media.
Text isn't media? You've got a really bizarre definition of media! Even accepting that the word now has a separate meaning aside from its meaning as the plural of medium, the phrases "mass media" or "mainstream media" have always included newspapers and books. Which are, generally, text.
What do most people mean by stream? (Score:4, Insightful)
Does terrestrial broadcast signal count as "streaming"? Most of the media that enters my consciousness is broadcast television, printed word, radio and video or audio streams from the internet. If we discount broadcast television and radio as streams, then I need to find a good way to measure the proportion of printed word against streaming audio and video. If we count broadcast television and radio as streams, then internet streaming is a very small perfect (5% or so) compared to those even if we discount printed word.
Really, I think the crux here is that printed word and internet audio or video streams are really hard to compare.