Lethal Weapon: David Fletcher outlines the findings of a research project about how PVRs will be used in the UK in the next few years.
The UK will switch over to a fully-digital TV service in the next few years, prompting unprecedented opportunity for households to acquire PVRs.
David Fletcher outlines the findings of a research project to find out how the device is likely to be used.
MediaLab commissioned Basis Research to construct a qualitative panel of ‘early majority’ households: households who hadn’t thought about getting a Personal Video Recorder (PVR) but didn’t completely dismiss the notion either. They covered a spectrum of viewing types: five-channel terrestrial, Freeview, established Sky households and more recent Sky converts.
A sample of 20 households had PVR equipment placed with them – effectively upgrading their TV experience with either Sky+ (in Sky households) or with
Which? magazine’s preferred Digifusion PVR for Freeview and previously five-channel only households.
These households were interviewed after two to three weeks with the equipment and then again after a further six weeks in order to get an understanding of initial and ‘settledown’ behaviour.
This abstract originally appeared in volume 12 of WPP's Atticus Journal, 2006 Download the full report (pdf)