What does it say about the fan base of the Kansas City Chiefs that so, so many of them plan to watch the team battle the San Francisco 49ers (in the Big Game on February 2) on televisions so large they take up the whole room?
In a Daxdi survey, we asked 2,239 people in the US via Google Surveys if they'd be watching the game, all so we could find a full 1,000 who plan to.
Of those respondents, we asked how many planned to watch the game on a TV versus some other device, and whether they'd be streaming.
The Chiefs were the favorite team of 34 percent of respondents; the 49ers actually came in third, at 19 percent.
More people—30 percent—wanted to see the Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl.
(The survey was conducted during the playoffs, so they had a right to a modicum of hope for the four-time Super Bowl winners to make a comeback.) What's more interesting is that more Chiefs fans than any other team—47 percent—have those ultra-large 4K TVs measuring at least 71 inches or more.
In a "size-does-matter" joke in the making, 49ers fans have the lowest amount of large TV screens.
Ahem.
The average screen size, however, is a more standard range, between 46 and 70 inches measured diagonally.
Few people want to watch the game on anything less.
This is, allegedly, the first year the Super Bowl will stream in 4K, but it's actually not a big deal—it's an upscaled 4K stream, not true 4K.
Most 4K sets probably upscaled the game when streamed in the last couple of years.
So don't expect to be overwhelmed by the image quality for 2020.
Sixty-two percent of respondents said they would be watching the commercials during the live viewing of the game.
Here's an interesting data point that backs that up: 69 percent of them said they wouldn't be using any digital video recorder (DVR) functions—such as pause, fast forward, or, especially, rewind—during the live game! This behavior flies in the face of two decades of TiVo's existence, but it makes sense for anyone hosting live viewing parties who need to get people out of the house before they're too intoxicated.
Not too shockingly, very few homes will be using a virtual private network (VPN) to protect their connection; that's because few homes will be doing any actual streaming.
They're going old-school with cable subscriptions (which someday may be as quaint as having a phone landline, but not yet).
Among those who are streaming, the Chiefs fans were the least likely to use a VPN, at 4 percent.
49ers fans—a more tech-savvy bunch, perhaps, since they have to live amid Silicon Valley—up that number to 9 percent.
The really safe fans would have been those of the Tennessee Titans at 10 percent—but the Titans, who have never won a Super Bowl, won't be changing that this year.
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