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Survey of viewers shows extent of TV time shifting

By DAVID BAUDER

AP Television Writer

NEW YORK – If you’ve never time-shifted a prime-time television series – watched it later on a DVR, over the Internet or ordered it on demand – you’re now in the minority.

A survey of viewers conducted on the eve of the new fall season quantifies what has become commonplace in millions of American homes: People are putting themselves in charge of their own TV schedule.

Sixty-two percent of viewers across the country interviewed in a poll conducted for the nation’s largest cable company, Comcast Corp., said they have used time-shifting technology. Six in 10 people said they owned a digital video recorder.