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I believe Tyler Cohen's "The Great Stagnation" arrives at a similar conclusion, but I'd like to see hard numbers. In regard to entertainment, it'd be interestin

I believe Tyler Cohen's "The Great Stagnation" arrives at a similar conclusion, but I'd like to see hard numbers. In regard to entertainment, it'd be interesting to see a nomalized total $/hr comparison of various activities. For example, compare a standard movie in a theater to playing Dragon Age. That'd be roughly $15/hr (adding popcorn) vs. (120 hrs game play / ~60$ for the game) ~$.50/hr. That seems impressive, but .50/hr is still much higher than the 0$/hr that free broadcast television offers. I'd be curious to know how all these different types of media consumption shake out in the long run.

byrneseyeview 15y ago
That's a really good question. I have no idea what the ad revenue per hour of TV watched would look like, but Quora might know: http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-typical-ad-revenues-per-person-per-hour-of-television-watched-for-different-categories-of-shows http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-typical-ad-revenues-per-p... (Edit: I came up with a very rough estimate of $.20 of ad revenue per person-hour of TV time. I have no idea how accurate that might be.)
- gwern 15y ago
  That seems to be the same number Kevin Kelly provides for TV: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/03/your_attention.php http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/03/your_attentio...
- nobody_nowhere 15y ago
  Very interesting. How many ad impressions do you generate during an hour of web browsing? 100? 500? That's $0.10 - $0.50 of revenue at a $1CPM.
meric 15y ago
If you buy a console just to play dragon age... 460/120 = 3.83. A console with 3 games: 580/360 = 1.61. Edit: edited out stupid "on par with movie" comment.