Welcome to the Register Big Consumer Tech Survey 2013. We're looking to gain some insight into your use of technology – mainly your personal views and opinions, but also how it relates to use of technology for personal and business use. The survey covers smartphones, tablets, TV, gaming and networking, which is quite a handful. If you use them all, please fill in the whole survey but if any part is not relevant please feel free to skip ahead. With that said, let's get started with a bit of information about you and your experience with consumer technology.

1. General Questions

1.1 Approximately how much do you spend per year on personal tech?

1.2 Each month, how many friends, family or associates do you advise on personal tech purchases?

1.3 Do you share your experiences with personal tech?

1.4 What are your priorities for personal tech hardware investment in 2013?

1.5 What are your priorities for personal tech services spending in 2013?

1.6 Are you involved in purchasing personal or consumer technology for business use within your workplace?

2. Smartphones in more detail

Now we'd like to look in some more detail at smartphones in particular. If you don't use one, please feel free to jump ahead, or else fill out the bits you have an opinion on. If you use a smartphone - or even more than one smartphone - for both business and personal use, where we're not asking specifically about personal or business use we'd like your overall opinion on how you think things are or should be.

For your smartphone, or main two smartphones if you use more than one, could you please tell us:

2.1 Smartphone 1

2.2 Smartphone 2

2.3 What do you use your smartphones for?

2.4 When it comes to screen size for your smartphone what is your preference?

2.5 When it comes to screen resolution for your smartphones, what do you think is sufficient or necessary?

2.6 How important are the following for you in a smartphone?

2.7 Thinking about features and characteristics, would you be looking for anything different in a business smartphone compared to a personal smartphone or vice versa?

3. Tablets in more detail

Now we'd like to look in some more detail at tablets. As before, if you don't use one, please feel free to jump ahead, or else fill out the bits you have an opinion on, and if you use a tablet for both business and personal use, where we're not asking specifically about personal or business use we'd like your overall opinion on how you think things are or should be.

3.1 Tablet 1

3.2 Tablet 2

3.3 What do you use your tablet for?

3.4 When it comes to screen size for your tablet what is your preference?

3.5 When it comes to screen resolution for your tablet, what do you think is sufficient or necessary?

3.6 How important are the following for you in a tablet?

3.7 Thinking about features and characteristics, would you be looking for anything different in a business tablet compared to a personal tablet or vice versa?

4. TV & Video in More Detail

We're getting to the home straight now. This section is about your TV and movie viewing habits and preferences, before we move onto gaming and home networking.

4.1 How much do you watch TV, movies or other video in the following ways, and how do you see this changing over the next 3 years?

4.2 How much do you watch TV and/or video on the following kit now, and how is this likely to change?

4.3 Which of the following best describes your thoughts on purchasing a 3D TV?

4.4 What do you think of 'Smart TVs' that can have apps for content playback, or functions such as Facebook, Twitter, or chat?

4.5 How much video do you have stored in the following places, and how is this likely to change?

4.6 If you keep a library of digital copies of video content, how much space does this take up?

4.7 Tell us your experience of maintaining a media library to work across your various devices?

5. More about Gaming

Almost there now. This section is all about gaming. If that's not your scene, please jump ahead now.

5.1 How would you describe your gaming activity?

5.2 How often do you purchase games in each of the following ways?

5.3 How much of your play is online or connected?

5.4 What type of games do you tend to play the most?

5.5 What platform(s) do you use to game on?

6. Enabling it all

Last bit coming up – we'd like to know about your home networking setup, and particularly your experiences with Internet connectivity such as cable or ADSL.

6.1 What is the current download/downlink speed of the internet connection into your home (actual rather than advertised if you know it)?

6.2 Is this download/downlink speed adequate for your needs today?

6.3 What is the current upload/uplink speed of the internet connection into your home (actual rather than advertised if you know it)?

6.4 Is this upload/uplink speed adequate for your needs today?

6.5 What do you anticipate being the minimum download and upload connection speeds you will require in 3 years time?

6.6 Which broadband/internet service provider do you currently use?

6.7 What are the main considerations when choosing an broadband/internet service provider today?

6.8 How important are the following likely future developments in home technology?

7. Before you go

That's it now. Just a few questions about who you are so we can make sense of it all, and we're finished. Thanks again for taking the time to answer the survey.

7.1 Do friends and family tend to ask your advice when making decisions on any of the following? (Please tick all that apply)

7.2 How old are you?

7.3 What gender are you?

7.4 Which of the following applies to you?

7.5 Which of the following best describes your role at work?