With tablets in particular, the single most popular time to use them is while watching TV.
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Tristan Herold, an 8-year-old from Metuchen, New Jersey, discovered Ed Roth two years ago while watching TV.
It is becoming more common than ever to have a laptop on the coffee table to use while watching TV.
Mr. Rao notes that Brazilians like to use social media while watching TV, in particular soccer matches and soap operas.
"Recent data shows that the majority of viewers (aged 18-44) use a second screen, either a tablet or smartphone, while watching TV, " he says.
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Users who are shopping on the couch while watching TV, the device most close at hand is probably going to be that.
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Many of these gamers are playing on tablets or smartphones while watching TV or using other screens, which is changing the way game developers approach franchises.
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While watching TV shows, I relaxed on the couch with my iPad, dragging photos into my KeepShot book and tapping an icon to change page layouts.
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Just last year, Nielsen released a study showing that a whopping 70% of tablet owners and 68% of smartphone owners use their devices while watching TV.
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When you look at statistics that show how many have their mobile device with them while watching TV, and think about having a quarter of a billion users, it just makes sense.
The author of the research paper Dr Lennert Veerman, from the Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost Effectiveness, told me they had adjusted their research to exclude people who were physically active while watching TV - such as running on a treadmill or rowing.
Then by the end of the year TiVo wants to introduce a new service where'll be able to buy stuff from your couch while watching TV (which is awesome, because there isn't already a way to remotely order stuff from the comfort of your own home).
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Another nice feature for sports fans: the ScoreGuide pops up when you press the red button while watching live TV.
Even more, with the picture-in-picture feature, you can surf the web while watching live TV, all at the same time.
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Then while watching live TV, you hit the up arrow and can quickly tune to one of those channels by selecting the corresponding logo.
One key feature that does lag a bit on the Mini is changing the channel while watching live TV (the progress indicator in the image below was added to help time pass).
To use it, you simply hit the down button on the remote twice while watching live TV, and from that point forward the DVR will buffer live TV on two channels instead of one. (The feature turns itself off after two hours.) We particularly like the ability to pause one channel, switch to the other and find the video automatically resuming from where we left off.
Balding first became aware of a problem after spotting a lump on her throat while watching herself on TV.
Or if your usually standoffish daughter plops down beside you while you're watching TV, pay attention.
The Florida retiree banks online, files taxes online, books travel online and views football games on his computer while watching another game on TV.
Your young cousin apparently spends her entire life taking care of the house and watching TV while your uncle, a police detective, absorbs himself in his work.
He enjoys watching TV while he works out.
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They could sit in their rooms watching TV while the phones ring off their hooks, the dirty dishes pile up in the sink, dinner burns on the stove and the babies scream their lungs out.
That is becoming increasingly important to customers: watching TV while on the move, streaming music from the Internet or synchronising data with a computer at home or in the office - for many people, those are everyday applications in today's world.
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But what if, instead, you could get that life-saving drug by slapping on a patch while sitting in your living room watching TV?
For example, a user could be browsing the web for information while watching an HD video on the TV all at the same time.
Second, since tablets are often used while watching television, tighter integration between the TV commercial and the tablet-based Web experience should be mandatory.
"Online you can study the product, ask questions anonymously and do comparative shopping, all while you are listening to music, watching TV or having a quick break at work, " says Langmead.
And he's stopped for a while in a motel room and he's just sitting there watching TV and using his little laptop computer and trying to come to grips with his situation, and he's pretty depressed.
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