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Another
13 per cent said they watched occasionally,
while a further 10 per cent said they expected
to start in the coming year.
But
two-thirds of the population said they did
not watch online and could not envisage
starting in the next 12 months.
In
the survey, one in five people who watched
online or mobile video at least once a week
said they watched a lot less TV as a result.
Another
23 per cent said that they watched a bit
less, while just over half said their TV
viewing was unchanged. Three
per cent said that online video inspired
them to watch more TV.
Online
and mobile video is far more popular among
the young, with 28 per cent of those aged
16 to 24 saying they watched more than once
each week.
An
average of 10 per cent aged 25 to 44 were
net video regulars, with that figure falling
to just 4% of over-45s.
Earlier
this year, media regulator Ofcom said that
the number of 16 to 24-year-olds watching
TV in an average day had dropped 2.9% between
2003 and 2005.
Comedian
Ricky Gervais, whose audio and video podcasts
have become hits on the web, said amateur
video would never replace TV - but broadcasters
would harness the power of the internet.
"You
can't knock up an episode of The Sopranos
or 24 on a little handheld digital camera,"
he told the BBC News website.
"I
don't think you'll ever be able to sidestep
TV or DVD. But TV companies will embrace
it."
The
choice offered by new platforms was "exciting",
he said, and any future developments depended
on how many people started using the technology.
"I'm
sure when the BBC first launched, they were
going: 'Ah, not many people have got tellies.
Who's watching this?' So it's good to get
your act together. And then people catch
up with the know-how and the means to watch
it."
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