The show's over for TV

Chin Stroker

People will soon be spending more time using their smartphones and tablets for surfing the web, checking social networks and playing games than they do watching television, new research has found.


The average adult will use a mobile device for five hours a day compared to just four and half hours watching television.


A US marketing company has claimed the tipping point when digital devices surpass the popularity of TV will come later this year.

http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Digital-Set-Surpass-TV-Time-Spent-with-US-Media/1010096

Although this an American based survey I can see the same trends happening here. Id personally watch my TV for less than an hour these days.

wazky

They obviously don't get the riveting programming of RTE over there then.

MonkstownHoop

Leaving plenty more time for Stroking the Chin

wil

Internet, drug of the nation,
breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

still works

wil

Watch what you watch

RachaelVO

God yeah, when I was home a little while ago I did say to my Dad, that I watch more telly on my laptop then I do on the telly!

Gran Hermano

Journalist/researcher never heard about dual screening?
http://blog.hootsuite.com/brandwatch-second-screen/

Duggy747

TV channels are crowded with reality muck and "celebrities" clinging onto their 15 seconds of fame with the decent stuff relegated to obscure channels at bizarre hours.

Remember when the like of Discovery Channel and History Channel used to show interesting stuff?

"Up next, were the pyramids built as a warning from Aliens about Hitler? Could Hitler have been an Alien commander? Did he have a stash of brown lemons?

Find out after Fridge Pawners!"

apollo8

Lol uPC's new box can record four channels at once.ffs most of the time i cant find anything to watch on one of the hundreds of channels let alone four.

hfallada

I find watching TV on the internet so much more enjoyable especially UK tv shows. There is nothing worse than the Ads on UK tv(other than RTE programming) for interest free sh1tty furniture, betting or wonga. It makes tv less enjoyable.

apollo8

Duggy747 wrote: »

TV channels are crowded with reality muck and "celebrities" clinging onto their 15 seconds of fame with the decent stuff relegated to obscure channels at bizarre hours.

Remember when the like of Discovery Channel and History Channel used to show interesting stuff?

"Up next, were the pyramids built as a warning from Aliens about Hitler? Could Hitler have been an Alien commander? Did he have a stash of brown lemons?

Find out after Fridge Pawners!"

yes it is dire is'nt it?have to wonder can TV survive at al!

clairefontaine

Yep. It will all be Netflix and amazon. No one will want to pay for cable with all the junk that's on it.

COYVB

Haven't watched TV since I left Ireland 4 years ago now. Watch plenty of movies on Netflix and still actually have a couple of TVs in the house, but we don't have cable since there's no point really

Chin Stroker

Hmmm, how is poll added after posting? A "how many hours do you watch TV a day?" one.

Artful_Badger

Well people have been complaining about there being nothing on TV since it was invented. Was only a matter of time before people copped on that there was other ways to fill their time apart from watching nothing.

Too Tough To Die

There will always be a place for TV.

COYVB

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

There will always be a place for TV.

Yup, mounted on the wall connected to a media box

Mike 1972

Television the drug of the nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

wil wrote: »

Watch what you watch

Kinda ironic they made a video for that song ?

The Cush

except Ireland where "TV still dominates in a world of multi-devices" (TAM Ireland survey, Mar2013)

mike65

Funny thing is time spent watching the idiot box has been rising again in the last few years.
Probably continue to rise as well with the increase in "on-demand" programming.

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/mar/18/britons-own-fewer-tvs-research?guni=Article:in%20body%20link

notnumber

If TV disappears what will all our Furniture point to?

Chin Stroker

COYVB wrote: »

Yup, mounted on the wall connected to a media box

apollo8

notnumber wrote: »

If TV disappears what will all our Furniture point to?

The open fire i guess:pac:

recyclebin

Guess most of you guys don't watch sport then. TV will never die as long as their is Sport. Have you ever tried to watch golf or hurling on a smart phone?

endacl

The average adult spends 4.5 hours watching TV?!? WTF? :eek:

Who's making up for my zero hours?

kowloon

endacl wrote: »

The average adult spends 4.5 hours watching TV?!? WTF? :eek:

Who's making up for my zero hours?

I reckon most of those hours are spent asleep on front of the TV, not watching it.

SolarFlash

why can't u get the TV channels streaming on PC so u can flick between channels like with a regular TV. RTE player takes half the day to load a show with constant ad interruptions.

shruikan2553

Thanks to the internet I've gotten used to watching what I want, when I want and no stopping for ads. Want a few episodes of Breaking Bad? No problem, wait, I forgot about the washing, guessing I'll pause and go sort that out. Instead of You can watch it at 11pm on Thursdays but its not repeated so if you miss it tough ****. Oh, we're going to stop now and SHOW YOU SOME ADS, GUESS WHAT? WE TURNED UP THE VOLUME FOR THEM.

Imagine what netflix could do if it charged the same as sky or UPC.

notnumber

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Thanks to the internet I've gotten used to watching what I want, when I want and no stopping for ads. Want a few episodes of Breaking Bad? No problem, wait, I forgot about the washing, guessing I'll pause and go sort that out. Instead of You can watch it at 11pm on Thursdays but its not repeated so if you miss it tough ****. Oh, we're going to stop now and SHOW YOU SOME ADS, GUESS WHAT? WE TURNED UP THE VOLUME FOR THEM.

Imagine what netflix could do if it charged the same as sky or UPC.

What could they do that pirate bay and torrents wheren't already doing for free?
Personally I think pirate bay should have being commercialized..the guys who founded it deserve more than courts and jail..netflix ..no thanks I'll stick with the TV.

shruikan2553

notnumber wrote: »

What could they do that pirate bay and torrents wheren't already doing for free?
Personally I think pirate bay should have being commercialized..the guys who founded it deserve more than courts and jail..netflix ..no thanks I'll stick with the TV.

Virus free, all 100% working and legal. They took the best aspects of streaming and torrents and supply them for a small fee.

notnumber

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Virus free, all 100% working and legal. They took the best aspects of streaming and torrents and supply them for a small fee.

You would be unlucky to download a virus on torrents if you knew what you where doing..legal? well yeah I can't argue there ..but I would prefer to spend e20 a month on isohunt or pirate bay than pay e7.00 for a limited choice of media on netflix .And they and their kind have tried to force people into their service by forcing ISPs to censor the internet.

Capt'n Midnight

"Video killed the radio star"

84% of all Irish adults listen to the radio every single weekday.

Mike 1972

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

"Video killed the radio star"

84% of all Irish adults listen to the radio every single weekday.

Ive always thought that figure was on the low side and indicative of the lack of real choice on Irish radio

Reekwind

People have been talking about the death of TV since, at least, the dawn of the internet. If you believed the articles that were being written a decade ago then by now all the TVs would be dumped and we'd all be streaming low-quality video on our 3D goggles. Columnists just love to posit that old technology is dying when a) there's little to suggest that TV and the internet are in direct competition and b) TV remains, by far and away, the most important mass medium.

And ironically all this comes as TV is experiencing a sustained golden age with more high-quality content than, possibly, any previous time in history. If this is a dying medium then I'll have some more of that

krudler

the idea of waiting for a particular show to start at a particular time is an archaic way of watching tv, stream or download on your own time all the way. It's torture waiting a week for new episodes of Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones though

90% of whats on tv is absolute rubbish anyway, reality bollocks, anything on Discovery with the world "Wars", "Extreme" or "Worlds Fattest" in it, Honey Boo Boo, the majority of what's on MTV or TV3 (should be just renamed The Traveller Channel) for every decent (usually American) show or stuff like BBC documentaries or things like Sherlock, the more out there stuff Channel 4 makes and a few other things worth watching it's mostly rubbish.

Richard Hillman

Terrestrial and basic Cable tv is horrific. The things you see on ITV, TV3, MTV are for the thickest people occupying society.


Even the likes of the discovery channel has nosedived over the last few years.

who the fug

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Terrestrial and basic Cable tv is horrific. The things you see on ITV, TV3, MTV are for the thickest people occupying society.


Even the likes of the discovery channel has nosedived over the last few years.

BBC is giving ITV a good run using taxpayer money

johnnyjb

krudler wrote: »

the idea of waiting for a particular show to start at a particular time is an archaic way of watching tv, stream or download on your own time all the way. It's torture waiting a week for new episodes of Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones though

90% of whats on tv is absolute rubbish anyway, reality bollocks, anything on Discovery with the world "Wars", "Extreme" or "Worlds Fattest" in it, Honey Boo Boo, the majority of what's on MTV or TV3 (should be just renamed The Traveller Channel) for every decent (usually American) show or stuff like BBC documentaries or things like Sherlock, the more out there stuff Channel 4 makes and a few other things worth watching it's mostly rubbish.

Class !!! haha

ongarboy

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

There will always be a place for TV.

I agree for national events like All Irelands, Olympic events, major 9/11 style breaking news stories and the like but I would say that already most under 40s surely spend more time online than watching TV each day? I think smartphones have really accelerated the amount of time people spend online due to the instant and convenient means of accessing it.

Now that I've got used to Netflix style instant availability of entire series of commercial free shows, the traditional waiting a week for one hour of ad filled drama is a turn off. Can't remember when I last did that for a show.

kneemos

Waiting a week to see you're favourite show added excitement and anticipation in my opinion.Instant access is handy but not necessarily better than a weekly episode.

Richard Hillman

Agree with the whole waiting a week to see a programme. Shows like 24 are not the same when watching on a weekly basis. I watched one series weekly and it just wasn't the same as watching it in 8 hour blocks.

I remember giving up on Lost because i was so frustrated with the weekly cliff hangers