Do you still watch TV?

skoomi

I watch pretty much everything on the laptop nowadays, the only reason I would look at a TV is if the flatmates are watching something.

Regular "telly" is on the way out. What do you think?

FanadMan

Not everyone has access to high speed reliable broadband Regular tv will be still going 20 years from now.......I hope

Shryke

I couldn't follow a show on TV if I wanted to anymore. Waiting until that specific night and time and sitting there looking at endless ads with your brain dripping out of your ears. It's horrible. It's like queuing at the bank.

Captain Chaos

I stopped about 10 years ago when I lost all interest in TV. There has been nothing on TV that I actually want to sit down and watch. All I use a TV for is gaming and watching downloaded stuff. There is not a single sitcom or series I like on TV ever since the Simpsons went to crap in 2000. Don't like Lost, The Wire or any of the other cool to watch series.

mauzo

If something interests me on the TV, Ill watch it on the internet.

My room mates would watch stuff and Id be interested in it, but 1 week later Im 2 seasons ahead.

What the hell is the point?!

DEFTLEFTHAND

Sky+ keeps me watching. There's still a great variety of channels and programmes to get lost in.

the groutch

TV died in 1999 with the introduction of Big Brother, and led to wave after wave of sh!t reality tv shows

Mint Sauce

TV is on in the corner right now. Not paying alot of attention to it now or most evenings to be honest.

Where To

10 GB per month doesn't leave a body with an awful lot of choice :mad:

cocoshovel

Nope and I havent in about 3 years. I dont watch it on the internet either. Well, mostly. The only thing I do watch is anime, which is really shown on western TV unless you count the crappy dubbed kids shows.

Where To wrote: »

10 GB per month doesn't leave a body with an awful lot of choice

I think I'd kill myself. I average at at about 180gb ish a month. No limit is great.

Nothingbetter2d

FanadMan wrote: »

Not everyone has access to high speed reliable broadband Regular tv will be still going 20 years from now.......I hope

[geek mode]

not once analogue tv is shutdown to make room for the LTE broadcasting equipment...

seeing as Eircom has dragged it's heels with rolling out reliable broadband in ireland mobile phone operators will soon be bringing out LTE (4G) services that will use the old analogue tv broadcast frequencies and towers.... they will be able to offer speeds of upto 70mb/s.

Eircom's NGB (Not Good Broadband) is already obsolete technology.

I for one welcome our new LTE overlords

[/geek mode]

bnt

Some TV can be good e.g. tonight I watched an excellent BBC production of Shakespeare's Richard II, recorded the other night. The Proms are starting soon. Some good movies too - and DVR means you can skip ads and build up a stock of episodes to watch at once. It's not all trash.

christmas2012

not really if walking dead series is on(its on rte) ill watch it then..

Conchir

I've never liked watching programmes online. I actually like that I have to wait, programmes start and end the way they do to build suspense and stuff, I think that's lost if I just watch everything in one go. It also gives time for the episode to sink in. Watching it on tv means there's a specific time each week I can look forward to to watch something.

EchoO

I probably watch less in week now than used to watch in day in the not to distant past. There's hardly anything on I want to watch these days. The last must see programmes for me were The Sopranos and The Wire.

Blowfish

I don't even have a TV.

RUCKING FETARD

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

[geek mode]

not once analogue tv is shutdown to make room for the LTE broadcasting equipment...

seeing as Eircom has dragged it's heels with rolling out reliable broadband in ireland mobile phone operators will soon be bringing out LTE (4G) services that will use the old analogue tv broadcast frequencies and towers.... they will be able to offer speeds of upto 70mb/s.

Eircom's NGB (Not Good Broadband) is already obsolete technology.

I for one welcome our new LTE overlords

[/geek mode]

But in reality you'll be lucky to get......5mb, same as the advertised 21mb we have now might get you 1mb.....and all perfectly legal.

Pushtrak

I will never grasp the "I don't watch tv, there is nothing good on" crowd. They defeat their own argument.

dchris

Rarely watch TV everything online. Aertv, Various players, Expat shield for UK players.. Ur only man!

Leeg17

I download anything I want to watch, most of the stuff on the channels we have I've already seen before

Elmo

I am going back to TV I just can't watch 5 episodes of the one show in a row anymore (maybe 24 but that's the exception). I might record or catch up on line but I'll wait each week, I'll even wait for shows to appear on Free TV and follow at that pace.

I still have feckin' Damages to watch

Diego Maradona

Watch mostly sports and very little else although I'm loving TV3's new Pyschic show and following the thread on it on Boards.

I prefer to watch stuff on tv than online especially with sky HD. Also sky+ means you don't have to be there at the specific time. Its also nice to just sit down and flick through channels and find something good, like you would never hear of half the documentarys on history and discovery etc if you just didn't stumble upon them.

The biggest factor is sport though. I watch a lot of sport Soccer and Golf being two of the most and I hate streams, I couldn't be without a sky sports subscription.

Now I do watch downloads too but its mostly stuff that isn't shown here until a long time after the US or something that I start following after its been shown already on tv.

Nothingbetter2d

RUCKING FETARD wrote: »

But in reality you'll be lucky to get......5mb, same as the advertised 21mb we have now might get you 1mb.....and all perfectly legal.

no it seems to work well in other countries... granted 70mb/s will probably not be realistic but even if we get 50mb/s out of the 70mb/s its still way better than eircom's antique infrastructure

RUCKING FETARD

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

no it seems to work well in other countries... granted 70mb/s will probably not be realistic but even if we get 50mb/s out of the 70mb/s its still way better than eircom's antique infrastructure

What sorta download Cap are you talking?

I'm near sure I read we have a better cap than some of europe on our mobile networks now.

I know I'll waste an hour if I start googiling it:rolleyes:.....

Novella

Pretty much never watch tv.

mackg

Still watch the Simpsons, nearly all my sport, some discovery stuff, music docs on channels like Sky Arts and BBC 4.

I watch nowhere near as much as I used to though when TV was what I did for the night regardless of what was on. Internet and XBL have taken a huge chunk of the time that once would have been devoted to TV.

Outside of the stuff I have mentioned time spent watching TV is mostly just conversation between me and my friends with little attention being paid to what's on.

Agree completely about trying to watch a series at a specific time every week. After having the freedom of watching whenever I choose it would be hard to go back.

Mr Benevolent

No, not at all. I don't watch any shows or movies at all.

Ishmael

Only watch live sport and stuff on T.V. I'd rarely watch T.V. shows these days. Usually only the odd episode of father ted or blackadder. I think i watched far too much T.V. when i was younger and am just kinda bored with it now. I will generally only make it as far as the first ad break when i watch anything now.

meoklmrk91

Like yourself OP, I gave up watching TV years ago, I now watch computer. Seriously though, no ads, on demand, great quality, you get to watch shows that we don't get here, and you don't have to wait an extra six months to a year to see the next season. I have a TV, it is connected to my Xbox and my PS3 and that is it. I have grown to hate the fact that the television is always on in peoples houses, even just as background noise, it's so annoying :mad:

Pottler

Sky got cut off when I changed credit card and forgot to tell them. Didn't bother getting it back. Kids watch netflix, via xbox on house TV and noone misses regular TV. I'll leave it off.

supernova84

Chewing gum for the eyes Dougal

pragmatic1

Haven't really watched TV for about five years. TV sucks balls.

starbelgrade

Pottler wrote: »

Sky got cut off when I changed credit card and forgot to tell them. Didn't bother getting it back. Kids watch netflix, via xbox on house TV and noone misses regular TV. I'll leave it off.

If you still have the Skybox & dish, just take the Sky card out of the box & you'll get all of channels that are on Freeview (BBC, C4, ITV, Film 4 etc).

You also still get the Sky electronic programme guide. Not sure how, but it still works.

Mister Jingles

Nowhere near as much as I used to up to about 3 years ago. Tele is just ****e now a day, simple as.

Pushtrak

I really wonder how many people here have actually not seen, for instance, Dexter or Breaking Bad... There are a load of other great shows on, too but people say they haven't watched anything in years. So, "I didn't like it" isn't really an answer, as if you didn't like it, you watched it and found it not to your liking.

Princess Peach

I don't even have a tv. Tried to watch the one in the living room of my house after months of watching my laptop, the amount of ads just drove me crazy and I couldn't do it!

wes

I am amazed that so many would choose to watch on a tiny laptop screen. Surely, anyone with a laptop (or even a tablet) bought recently have a HDMI out, so they can watch stuff on the big screen?

Personally, I just plugged my desktop into my tv, so I can stream stuff as I like into my TV. Also, still have Sky for my Mum, and I watch that as well from time to time, but I think I use Sky Go a lot more, to watch stuff on demand.

pickarooney

Laptop screens aren't tiny, particularly if you sit close to them

Princess Peach

pickarooney wrote: »

Laptop screens aren't tiny, particularly if you sit close to them

Mine sits on my belly about 20 inches away from my face!

Manach

Well the Angelus is always enjoyable.

Pushtrak

Manach wrote: »

Well the Angelus is always enjoyable.

TL;DW

wes

pickarooney wrote: »

Laptop screens aren't tiny, particularly if you sit close to them

Sure, thats true to a degree, but tbh HD content look far better on a 40 or 50 inch tv screen at the end of the day, so considering that laptops have hdmi outs, I find it bizare that people choose an inferior experience, but to each there own.

ScumLord

the groutch wrote: »

TV died in 1999 with the introduction of Big Brother, and led to wave after wave of sh!t reality tv shows

There's only been one good reality TV show, Call of the wildman. Live action.

Shenshen

Watching TV with the husband most evenings.
Laptops are nice for short clips and the like, but I wouldn't want to watch a whole film.

healyon

I still watch my tv but the content is from my laptop, i hear people talking about the latest funny ads on the tv and im clueless as i havent seen ads in so long

af_thefragile

The only thing I watch on TV is Top Gear (when its on) and Formula 1 (which I have the option of watching online too)...

Princess Peach

wes wrote: »

Sure, thats true to a degree, but tbh HD content look far better on a 40 or 50 inch tv screen at the end of the day, so considering that laptops have hdmi outs, I find it bizare that people choose an inferior experience, but to each there own.

I have inferior funds.

Bad Panda

I have the TV on in the background sometimes, but mainly I stream/download movies and TV shows.

Prefer to watch on my schedule rather than the broadcasters.

Plus it means I get to see TV shows way before they're broadcast here.

af_thefragile

ScumLord wrote: »

There's only been one good reality TV show, Call of the wildman. Live action.

What about Bear Gryll's Born Survivor?
I loved that show! Sad to see he got sacked...

Pushtrak

healyon wrote: »

I still watch my tv but the content is from my laptop, i hear people talking about the latest funny ads on the tv and im clueless as i havent seen ads in so long

If it weren't for going to the cinema, it'd be the same story for me. I find them especially irritating as that is the only time I have to put up with them and you can almost forget about them.