How Much TV a week do you watch?

Badboy1977

And is it a sign of an indolent person if you watch more than four hours a week: Discuss? Should we be spending the time in a more fruitful manner?:)

mikom

Badboy1977 wrote: »

And is it a sign of an indolent person if you watch more than four hours a week:

Not if you watch it whilst on an exercise bike.

Badboy1977

mikom wrote: »

Not if you watch it whilst on an exercise bike.

Good point.:rolleyes: I just wonder if it is a waste. I watch at least an hour a day.

Laois_Man

The options aren't spread enough. If I watched the news every day and one football match or one movie, I'd be classed as having no life!

Land Of Idiots

Laois_Man wrote: »

The options aren't spread enough. If I watched the news every day and one football match or one movie, I'd be classed as having no life!

Exactly. If you watch 10 hours per week, that would be about an hour and a half per day. How can that be classed as having no life??

Also Starring LeVar Burton

I watch more than 10 a week, but I have a great life... There's 168 hours in a week, take about 56 out for sleeping and that still leaves you with 112... If you work subtract another 40, which leaves 72... Not a chance in hell am I gonna spend 72 hours of my week going out with my mates, so there's nothing wrong with more than 10...

Richard Dower

I'd leave out the "no life" tag....

Tristram

I'd say I'm very close to the 10+ hours mark. Have a great life.

I wonder what average viewing hours a day (Monday-Friday) are.

fryup

Badboy1977 wrote: »

Discuss? Should we be spending the time in a more fruitful manner?:)

ya, like on the web:cool:

bucks73

Definitely more than 10 hours a week. Football, rugby along with a few TV series and a movie or two easily put the total over 10.

Sure doesnt feel like I have no life apart from TV.

Helix

1-3 hours a week

but then again, i download my tv shows

Mr E

CaptainNegative wrote: »

I watch more than 10 a week, but I have a great life... There's 168 hours in a week, take about 56 out for sleeping and that still leaves you with 112... If you work subtract another 40, which leaves 72... Not a chance in hell am I gonna spend 72 hours of my week going out with my mates, so there's nothing wrong with more than 10...

Spot on. 10 hours? I'd watch 10 hours over a weekend (and yes, I have a life).

Badboy1977

Perhaps the have no life tag is a bit harsh! How do I edit the poll?? Perhaps looking at Internet should be included-they are all screens. Well looking at internet for entertainment purposes!

NormanNicetouch

The average viewing is well over 20 hours a week with older people & lower socio-economic groups often watching 30 hours a week plus. These options are ridiculously low.

L31mr0d

Depends. General media consumption eats up the majority of my evenings. This is split between TV shows, movies, games, web browsing.. etc

Sometimes I'll play a game all evening, sometimes I'll watch a few episodes of a show back to back, or vary between all of them... etc.

In my opinion an activity it only a "waste" of life if the individual doesn't enjoy it. If the individual enjoys it then it has utility to the individuals happiness.

I would consider sitting in a BO ridden Pub with loud music shouting at the people next to me a waste of my life. Other people find this enjoyable enough to do every weekend.

What I do find a waste is adverts. I've thankfully been able to reduce my TV advert consumption to close to zero.

Mr E

I edited the poll to remove the "No life" comment on 10+.

I can't add new options at this stage because the 32 people who voted wouldn't be able to change their vote.

anotherlostie

I think it would have been far more interesting if the choices were how much do you watch in a day, rather than in a week. And I'm not sure you would have had to change the numbers to get a valid poll!:D

Badboy1977

Mr E wrote: »

I edited the poll to remove the "No life" comment on 10+.

I can't add new options at this stage because the 32 people who voted wouldn't be able to change their vote.

Thanks for doing your best with it. I feel a lot better about my Tv viewing:). My point was that while I enjoy Tv a lot I often do wonder if I could be doing something better-like learning something. I do a little volunteering but often feel its too eassy to sit in front of the Box.

Poochie05

I hate how people get all self-righteous when it comes to watching TV. I have often come across a smugness from people who don't watch it (or don't own one:eek:). To hear some people talk, it is a waste of time with no value. Each to his own, but it really depends on what you watch and why you watch it. Some people watch it to unwind, others for entertainment. I have seen loads of interesting documentaries on TV, I have been emotionally and mentally stimulated by watching TV and I have been mind-numbingly bored by watching TV. Now I would view watching over 10 hours a week of something like the Jeremy Kyle Show a waste of time, but that is not to say someone else may not enjoy it or even learn something from it, each to his own. If you think it is a waste of time, don't watch it, but don't judge others for watching TV. The quality of some TV dramas out there is outstanding and I would contend you can get as much out of watching a well written and well produced drama series as reading a book, but no one views reading novels as a waste of time. I probably watch over 10 hours a week but I am selective about what I view and I actually enjoy it, I don't feel guilty at all and I have a great life:D

Badboy1977

Poochie05 wrote: »

I hate how people get all self-righteous when it comes to watching TV. I have often come across a smugness from people who don't watch it (or don't own one:eek:). To hear some people talk, it is a waste of time with no value. Each to his own, but it really depends on what you watch and why you watch it. Some people watch it to unwind, others for entertainment. I have seen loads of interesting documentaries on TV, I have been emotionally and mentally stimulated by watching TV and I have been mind-numbingly bored by watching TV. Now I would view watching over 10 hours a week of something like the Jeremy Kyle Show a waste of time, but that is not to say someone else may not enjoy it or even learn something from it, each to his own. If you think it is a waste of time, don't watch it, but don't judge others for watching TV. The quality of some TV dramas out there is outstanding and I would contend you can get as much out of watching a well written and well produced drama series as reading a book, but no one views reading novels as a waste of time. I probably watch over 10 hours a week but I am selective about what I view and I actually enjoy it, I don't feel guilty at all and I have a great life:D

I agree in general with most of your points but as a teacher the decline in literacy over last 10-15 years is quite noticeable. Too many kids spend too long staring at one type of screen or another. TV in kid's bedrooms is ludicrous. They come in bleary eyed and explain they were up till one or two am watching a film!

There is, as in much of life a balance to be struck. Though, personally I must admit if there was a fire in my house its the Digi box then the wife!

mikom

Badboy1977 wrote: »

Though, personally I must admit if there was a fire in my house its the Digi box then the wife!

I'm sure she'd love to hear her lady garden referred to as a Digi box.

bonerm

I watch most of my tv whilst sitting on a bus (around 10 hours per week). Beats staring out of the window anyway.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Badboy1977 wrote: »

I agree in general with most of your points but as a teacher the decline in literacy over last 10-15 years is quite noticeable. Too many kids spend too long staring at one type of screen or another. TV in kid's bedrooms is ludicrous. They come in bleary eyed and explain they were up till one or two am watching a film!

That comes down to bad parenting though... television can't be blamed for that... As for the literacy in decline I 100% blame "txt speak" - I've often been sent e-mails by people who know me (I wouldn't call them friends) entirely in text speak and it drives me insane - I don't even try to decipher it, as its merely nonsense to me... I watch a lot of TV, but I also read a lot and find the time to do both while maintaining a healthy social life, so implying television is the reason for the decline in literacy is just wrong...

Poochie05

I agree you can't blame TV for poor literacy. You can be an avid reader and watch lots of TV, in fact many people I know, myself included, do both, they are not mutually exclusive. In fact some TV has encouraged me to read more as I look for the books the programmes are based on. Now that I think of it, this probably leads to even further stimulation as you inevitably compare one to the other. And even exchange views with people on internet forums about the merits of one over the other .

Badboy1977

CaptainNegative wrote: »

That comes down to bad parenting though... television can't be blamed for that... As for the literacy in decline I 100% blame "txt speak" - I've often been sent e-mails by people who know me (I wouldn't call them friends) entirely in text speak and it drives me insane - I don't even try to decipher it, as its merely nonsense to me... I watch a lot of TV, but I also read a lot and find the time to do both while maintaining a healthy social life, so implying television is the reason for the decline in literacy is just wrong...

I wasnt blaming it on its own (TV)-least that's what I meant but it is a factor most certainly.

Agricola

Id easily go over 10 hours a week. If Im not watching TV, id be online or playing a game which are all just other forms of screen watching.

I agree about the smugness of people who think those who watch TV with any regularity have no life. Just because lots of peoples TV consumtion comprises of moronic drivel like Big Brother and other reality TV shows doesnt mean thats what everyone uses a TV for. All i watch is sport, films, news and documentaries on TV. IMO an evening spent watching the documentary section on sky tv is an evening well spent.

That_Guy

I watch about 4-5 hours a week. I don't have much time to watch TV due to college during the week and I've a long commute home. I generally just watch my recorded programs at the weekend.

Badboy1977

Sixty votes-not enough for a representative view-any more votes?

Mr E

The 10+ hours group is a bit of a landslide.

Why are you looking for a representative view? Is this for a project?

Richard Dower

Polls don't do that well here...save for TBBT.

phasers

Sure I'd watch 10 hours + per day sometimes, and I'm pretty sure I have a life. (Although a lot of my life involves going to the cinema :pac:)

ForeverYoung90

10+....come on a 25+ option would have been more realistic!:cool:

Aibreann

I watch the news every 2,3 days and porn at the weekend after 24:00 . Is that much?

Poochie05

Badboy1977 wrote: »

Sixty votes-not enough for a representative view-any more votes?

Don't know what kind of representation you are looking for, as this is a TV discussion forum, the chances are everyone watches a lot of TV.

Caveat

Probably about 15 hours give or take. For me it's a case of checking what's on and if there is nothing I want to see the TV doesn't even get switched on - which is a terrible habit IMO, just automatically turning the telly on. A few days a week it doesn't get turned on at all. Sometimes I'll watch a few hours on a night. Movies and documentaries, that's about it these days. The odd time someting comes up that I'l watch religiously - e.g. The Sopranos.

Richard Dower

Poochie05 wrote: »

Don't know what kind of representation you are looking for, as this is a TV discussion forum, the chances are everyone watches a lot of TV.

You hit him with pure logic!

amacachi

Well over 10 hours. If I've no college I'd regularly pass 10 hours in a day unless I had made plans.

Eire-Dearg

Quite a lot, but I absolutely adore Thursday nights on RTE 2 - Hotel Babylon followed by Big Bang Theory. Then bed. Good times.

Badboy1977

Was no project just curiosity!

Richard Dower

Badboy1977 wrote: »

Was no project just curiosity!

Would be a much more interesting poll/topic if you'd asked how much porn people watch a week!