Apparently the real story was that 45% of European broadband users are using their computers to watch TV online:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6617013.stm

The TechCrunch headline exaggerates the statistic somewhat.

There is a related there here - http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=19061 , you can down vote me for this comment. I thought there was added value in linking the two threads.

"The survey did not ask where the respondents obtained the content, ignoring the reality that many were possibly downloading television shows from Bittorrent or similar services."

To me, it sound like a good idea not to ask that, if you want honest responses.

I guess people in Europe want to see the new US shows before they get to Europe and if they get to Europe.

"The survey also found that 45% of Europenas expect to be making video calls via their home TV’s by 2012."

Will there still be TVs by 2012???

Yes, just as there are still newspapers in 2007. These things die very, very slowly.

This is off-topic, but the eventual replacement of televisions by computers+broadband annoys me for one simple reason: I purposefully threw away my TV years ago, and now I find the medium encroaching upon my life again. Oh, well.