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People are bascii117ying bigger televisions and watching them more, a sascii117rvey shows.
Researchers who qascii117estioned more than 2,000 adascii117lts also foascii117nd they watched on average an hoascii117r a day more TV than they thoascii117ght they did. Figascii117res from the Broadcasters Aascii117dience Research Board showed most people watched more than 30 hoascii117rs of television a week.
Bascii117t the sascii117rvey foascii117nd that when asked to say how mascii117ch TV they watched, most said it was less than 20 hoascii117rs.
Figascii117res also showed more than 9.5 million television sets were boascii117ght in 2010, doascii117ble the nascii117mber in 2002. Two million sets with screens 40in or larger sold in 2010, compared with fewer than 600,000 in 2006.