Friday, January 28, 2011

Cord-Cutting is Too Difficult For Average Families

Here’s evidence that regular people have zero time for things like Google TV, Boxee, and Roku, if only because they’re too complicated.

Hill Holiday, an ad agency,” asked five Boston-area families to participate in a cord-cutting experiment. For one week each family was asked to forgo traditional cable TV in favor of one of the following devices: Apple TV, Google TV, Boxee Box, Xbox 360, and Roku.



As it turns out, TV watching still is a "lean back" activity, and the new Internet delivery systems changed that into an undesirable "lean forward" experience, to some extent. That isn't to say that some company, sometime, will "Apple-ize" the experience and make it elegant. But we aren't there yet.

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