And 29 per cent watch TV on mobile.
A global study of 9,000 viewers by Motorola has detailed the stealthy rise of the 'social TV' habit wherein people watch a programme and bitch about it at the same time on social networks.
It found that, with a combined weekly average of 14 hours of viewing, Brits are watching more than any of their European neighbours. They are joint second with Japan, behind the US, where the average viewer watches 15 hours a week.
Meanwhile, 63 per cent of them say they have used the Internet or a social network to discuss a TV programme while they are watching it.
In China 92 pe rcent of the population have discussed a TV show online.
29 percent of British viewers are watching streamed or downloaded video/TV on a mobile device or laptop.
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Overall, the web is complementing TV rather than competing with it. The study found that people spend 18 hours a week online, but that three of these hours coincide with TV watching.
This trend is most advanced in China, Turkey, Latin America and Russia, where consumers spend more hours than anywhere else watching TV on a mobile device and they are far more interested in signing up to new services.
Here's an infographic. It's a bit big - but the type is small, so we had no choice...
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