Written by Umang Saini
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Media

I had bought a TV (jointly with @singhyuvraj, @kwlvarun and @puneet3010) in 2006 for $190 to watch the World Cup. It was sold 3 years later for $100. Since then, I often get asked what do I watch? Here's the generic list -


What
iTunes Podcasts -  ~6 hours a week
  1. The Economist -  ~1 hour a week
  2. TED - 1.5 hours a week
  3. Brookings Video Podcast - 10 minutes a week
  4. SALT - 1 hour a month
  5. NYtimes Book Review - 30 minutes a week
  6. Twit / Twig - 1.5 hours a week
  7. 60 minutes - 30 minutes a week
  8. Misc - 30 minutes a week
Other Online Video ~ 6 hours a week
  1. YouTube - ~1 hour a week (L)
  2. Vimeo - 0.5 hours a week
  3. Google News, NDTV, Misc Live streams - ~2 hours a week
  4. Google Reader + Twitter + Buzz - 1 hour a week
  5. Misc-Misc-Misc - 1 hour a week
Movies + TV - 2 hours a week
I pledged to minimize watching mainstream movies last year, primarily because there's much better content online. However I still ended up watching ~9 movies this year. Thus main-stream movies still caught ~30 hours of my time in last 12 months.


Where
  1. 40% on iPod Touch 2nd Gen
  2. 45% at Desktop on VLC / iTunes
  3. 10% on TV at my Parents / Relatives place
  4. 5% in Theaters
  5. 0% on the TV I sold in 2009
Total -
All this adds up to roughly 12 hours per week online and 2 hours mainstream (Theater / TV). This is much less than average media consumption stats which are typically around 28 hours a week on TV alone.

Overhead -
I do have to spend about an hour a week to organize, downlad, manage the content. However this overhead is welcome than watching the n-th rerun of Friends on n-th TV channel.


Online / On-demand media essentially frees up a lot of time to read, browse than traditional linear medium. I do miss the 9pm news and the serendipity TV offers. Some of this is replaceable by something like this, somethings are not.

What media are you watching?

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