TV remains the dominant platform for home entertainment, but consumers...

company by an unspecified third party, he said at the Content Protection Summit in Los Angeles. Streaming usage is most heavily done by members of the millennial generation, he said. But tablets are being used for movie streaming by more older consumers than many might expect, he said. For households cancelling paid TV service, 35 percent cited a shifting reliance on Internet and streaming services as the reason, he said. A “significant minority,” 21 percent, said they were considering or already canceled paid TV service, he said. In a separate recent survey of 1,200 U.S. consumers and 1,800 U.S. businesses, Deloitte found that in head-to-head ratings of importance, tablets ranked well below smartphones and laptops. But tablets are “gaining some ground,” said John Sprouse, Deloitte director-technology, media and telecom. Users of laptops and smartphones said the latter device was more important to them, with 52 percent picking smartphones and 48 percent picking laptops. In similar comparisons, 68 percent of laptop and tablet owners picked laptops, while 74 percent of smartphone and tablet owners picked smartphones. Kids and their parents are a key audience for tablets, with 69 percent of households with kids under five allowing those kids to use their parents’ tablets and 91 percent of households with kids 6-17 allowing those kids to use their parents’ laptops, said Sprouse. A growing number of people are experimenting with using tablets as a primary device for accessing content, he said. Many people, for example, are now taking tablets with them on overnight trips instead of laptops, he said.