Do you watch TV or stream from the interweb?

Sea Sharp

I'm curious to know, how do the fine people of after hours watch all their favourite TV programs these days.

Me: I can't be bothered sitting through the advertisements and waiting until a certain time so I just download and/or stream thems.

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Kimono-Girl

Sea Sharp wrote: »

Me: I can't be bothered sitting through the advertisements and waiting until a certain time so I just download and/or stream my TV programmes.

Me: I can't be bothered sitting through the advertisements and waiting until a certain time so I just sky+ my TV programmes.

thebigbiffo

utorrent rocks

stovelid

I used to have to catch up on certain programmes online but since I got Sky+, I can just record them.

I sound like George Hook don't I?

geekyjay10

neither really, i download what i want to watch, kick off the dls before i go to work and watch em in the evening, only use tv for news current affairs, sport and the odd BBC drama, sherlock for example

thebigbiffo

stovelid wrote: »

I used to have to catch up on certain programmes online but since I got Sky+, I can just record them.

I sound like George Hook don't I?

yes, yes you do

*virtual punch yaaaaaa-kapow

starbelgrade

A bit of both, but I don't really watch much TV, apart from live football & match highlights.

bonerm

I just look at tv thru neighbours living room windows. I got the idea from my dogging days.

Renn

I watch what I want to watch so I don't watch any tv channels.

I hate watching TV on the actual box. Advertisements annoy me. Having to watch crap shows if there's nothing else on annoy me. Things like Sky Digital and NTL with hundreds of channels, but with about 40% showing the same thing and 80% having ads happen at the same time annoy me.

So yes, TV annoys me. Stream FTW.

TPD

I download what I want to watch. Wouldn't be bothered streaming when I can have a much higher quality version by just waiting a minute or two longer. I'd only ever watch the news live if someone else had put it on. Well, during the summer I'd try to wake up in time for 'Murder, She Wrote' and 'Diagnosis Murder'. Good breakfast viewing :P

Dravokivich

I watch TV...

Trashbat

Downloading is too specific to be honest. There's nothing I would consider "unmissable" and specifically seek it out. When I do watch TV i browse randomly and find something that interests me. I've actually come accross some great movies and documentaries by randomly flicking. I'd have never seen them if I had been specifically downloading.

AnonoBoy

I like to leave the TV on all the time as company. I also crank up the radio really loud too for more company. Sometimes I leave my laptop blaring music and a streamed TV show in the middle of it all so the neighbours think I'm having a party.

So much company and nobody to talk to.

Ruu_Old

I got my cable telly cut off since I don't watch much and have the local ones in HD for free. Anything that I miss, I can easily stream.

Minstrel27

I download in 720p and watch the downloaded shows on my television.

I only ever watch news or sport on television.

Fighting Irish

download

Sanjuro

Depends. If it's something I follow (This Is England 86, Mad Men, Lost, etc...) I'll download. Most of the rest of the stuff I'll watch (documentaries, etc) I'll watch on TV.

MoodeRator

Again I mostly watch downloads of series and films. Only use terrestrial for the occasional sport event or documentary

cherryghost

Internet

- I can choose what I want to watch
- There's no ads

Renn

MoodeRator wrote: »

Again I mostly watch downloads of series and films. Only use terrestrial for the occasional sport event or documentary

Even sport is better online. Once you don't mind having to put up with a slight delay for it to appear online that is. But at least you don't get the 3 hour painfully boring analysis of what went on. That's the beauty of it.

Wertz

No poll option for d/ling to watch at your leisure? Streaming sucks if yuor connection is on the low end of the DSL scale or at peak traffic times.
I wtach a good bit on normal TV and I also grab whatever TV shows I can that haven't aired here yet from the net, great for getting HD stuff that won't be on TV here for ages...

GavRedKing

I dont watch as much T.V. as I used, but for me id say its a close 50-50.

I will stream some shows but its mainly sport I stream, and I tend not to watch an awful lot of T.V. these days.

AnonoBoy

Renn wrote: »

Even sport is better online. Once you don't mind having to put up with a slight delay for it to appear online that is. But at least you don't get the 3 hour painfully boring analysis of what went on. That's the beauty of it.

But once the sporting event is over you can turn off the TV. You don't have to watch the analysis.

Renn

AnonoBoy wrote: »

But once the sporting event is over you can turn off the TV. You don't have to watch the analysis.

I'm including commentary here etc. Trust me, grabbing it online cuts out all the bullsh*t that typically goes with a sporting event. You can get games online without commentaries etc.

AnonoBoy

Renn wrote: »

I'm including commentary here etc. Trust me, grabbing it online cuts out all the bullsh*t that typically goes with a sporting event. You can get games online without commentaries etc.

Yeah I know - I watched a good bit of the world cup online but I dunno I just prefer watching sport on a big screen.

Renn

I watch it on a big screen too, don't watch any online.

ya-ba-da-ba-doo

About 80% telly/20% web for me..

Cantona's Collars

Stream some stuff but d/l the decent shows such as Sons Of Anarchy and True Blood.The amount of ads in shows on tv is a turnoff especially the top shows,thank God for SKY+ aswell.

orourkeda

Porn

DVD or Redtube?

HMMM let me see. Dcisions Decisions

alwaysadub

I don't have broadband in Galway and my laptop is sh1te when i'm in Dublin so i watch 99 % TV. I'll download old tv shows that i've missed sometimes, but thats about it.

mike65

I watch tv on tv cos its designed for tv.

JONJO THE MISER

No Comment:D:D:D

irishgrover

when at home....

I've two TV's - one has XBox and one has Wii.

I stream a lot of Sky stuff using the xbox, both live and on demand (via cheap and legit vouchers)

Using the Wii I watch a lot of BBC iPlayer...

So I probably stream more than I watch live traditional TV, but the lines are getting increasingly blurred.

If traveling (which I do a lot of) I steam a lot on the laptop (more than watching TV in hotel rooms)

squeakyduck

When I get home from work I'm straight on my laptop. Facebook, boards, something awful and stream a bitta telly!

_feedback_

Renn wrote: »

I'm including commentary here etc. Trust me, grabbing it online cuts out all the bullsh*t that typically goes with a sporting event. You can get games online without commentaries etc.

Commentary is a big part of sport on TV IMO. If you can manage without that, you can manage without crowd noises too, so just use this button on your remote.

Renn

elviscostello wrote: »

Commentary is a big part of sport on TV IMO. If you can manage without that, you can manage without crowd noises too, so just use this button on your remote.

Well for some of the ESPN games I watch, the commentary isn't all that bad. Maybe it's just years of having to listen to all those annoying twats on Sky that has me this way. As for the crowd - German fans > English fans. Granted some of the chants I don't fully understand but I'm going to have a guess that it's not near as bad as the sh*t you hear in the Premier League.

OutlawPete

I have my Laptop hooked up to my projecter.

I then go to xHamster and point the projecter at the wall on the far side of my bed,

When I climb under my duvet, it's as if I'm in an orgy.

The other 50% of the time I watch Sky+.

geekyjay10

geekyjay10 wrote: »

neither really, i download what i want to watch, kick off the dls before i go to work and watch em in the evening, only use tv for news current affairs, sport and the odd BBC drama, sherlock for example

just to be clear, i download on pc transfer to my media player "made8er" and watch on my big tv with digital surround sound

MoodeRator

Mr.S wrote: »

Have basic cable (20 odd channels) hooked up, which is free and does the trick. Stream everything else on RTE/BBC player or just download it.

May I ask how you are using the BBC player?

ScumLord

I watch everything online I got rid of the telle altogether so it's not really a choice for me any more. The only place it's a problem is with sports but I only watch two types of sport UFC and F1, UFC is easy to find online but I've missed most of the F1 season because it's rare and the place I used to get the divx stream from got shut down.

Don't use torrents though, there's no need really with all the divx sites streaming in HD now.

Other than the F1 online streaming is all round much better than TV. Even the free services with advertising are infinitely better than TV, the channel 4 website being the best I've experienced so far.

AnonoBoy

MoodeRator wrote: »

May I ask how you are using the BBC player?

No you may not.

(Ok you may - he probably uses a proxy)

Pauleta

I watch most of my tv with Sky Player on the xbox.

Minstrel27

Renn wrote: »

Even sport is better online.

No it's not. As an example, the Bundesliga live in HD on a 40" tv beats online. Commentary or not.

Renn

I know what you mean, but the way I do it means that I can watch whenever I want and I'm not tied down to be at home at a particular time etc.

MickShamrock

TV.

The guy

Most shows I watch takes years to be released here anyway and I like watching what I want when I want to so I watch everything I want on a computer or put it on my PS3 and watch it there.

MoodeRator

AnonoBoy wrote: »

No you may not.

(Ok you may - he probably uses a proxy)

would i be correct in assuming this would be a fee based proxy server?

Qwert1

Everone knows tv series were meant to be watched back-to-back for hours on end so its gotta be the internet.