Taipei café owner Wei Peng-Jeng is an avid viewer of television series, but the small screen that he watches them on is far smaller than the one they were created for.
During a recent slow afternoon, Mr Wei propped up his HTC smartphone’s five-inch screen to watch Sherlock, the BBC crime drama. Watching programmes on TV sets, he says, is the domain of “parents or the older generation”.
Mr Wei was far from alone in seeing the living room box as passé. Globally, demand for TVs may barely budge next year, Nomura analysts reckon, compared with growth of 7 per cent year-on-year in 2011 and 30 per cent just a few years previously.
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