Do you watch tv?

Chop Chop

I have many tv's, the wife, kids all watch it.

When I get up at 05:00 I will watch some engineering stuff on discovery, but that's about it. Then off too work.

Anyone else?

pragmatic1

Rarely. Maybe the news but that's about it.

NegativeCreep

Come Dine With Me all the way.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

My TV has a braile function. I turn it on, lower the sound, close my eyes and feel the screen.

IM0

sky+ so no

danslevent

Much prefer the laptop, no ads!

I have gotten so used to having no adverts watching tv actually inspires hatred, not relaxation like it is supposed...

Misticles

No. I watch utv.

johnayo

Yes

Taltos

Rarely - little on our box - so much more on netflix or those other sites

Chop Chop

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Come Dine With Me all the way.

Ha ha, the Missus loves this, I don't get it, it's full of weirdos.

summerskin

IM0 wrote: »

sky+ so no

You do realise that Sky+ is still TV, just recorded?

crazy cabbage

Dont even have that sare view thing yet so no.....

:pac:

smallerthanyou

Mainly just sports and pointless. I can't live without pointless. Richard is my idol. Everything else I watch is netflix or stolen if not on netflix.

IM0

summerskin wrote: »

You do realise that Sky+ is still TV, just recorded?

lies

The Backwards Man

I spend at least five hours a day watching the telly.

Some of these days I might even turn it on.

Voltex

I used to watch telly all the time...till I got married and had kids!
Im lucky if I can grab 10 mins on the bog by myself let alone enough time to watch a program!!

Bipolar Joe

I almost never watch the television. The only thing I do watch is Star Trek while I cook. Sometimes I'll find a good show and watch the whole lot over a week on the Interbutts, but mostly I just listen to music or watch movies. I find it harder to get into a show than a movie, and it's definitely harder to find one I'll like watching than a good film I'd enjoy.

Duff

Watch the Champions League on it. The rest I watch online.

Peregrine

Just news, rugby and some Top Gear the odd time. Youtube and Netflix for everything else.

Chop Chop

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

I almost never watch the television. The only thing I do watch is Star Trek while I cook. Sometimes I'll find a good show and watch the whole lot over a week on the Interbutts, but mostly I just listen to music or watch movies. I find it harder to get into a show than a movie, and it's definitely harder to find one I'll like watching than a good film I'd enjoy.

Mad isn't it, I can't understand how my wife and kids are glued to it.

I just never liked it, I'm a fecking nerd. All I do is pull the plum to engineering stuff.

Thinly veiled, pulling your plum to a Bunsen burner thread.

Ruu

The odd documentary or news but not much else. Stream or DVDs from the library.

Dr Silly Bollox MD

Netflix, streaming, sky+, DVD, torrents aren't TV?

Who knew?

Kichote

No and I havn't instead replaced it with some streaming service and I rarely watch any videos at all besides the odd youtub video if I think its actually useful to watch. I particularly dont like Netflix because of DRM and Silverlight.

If there is someone else watching something vaguely interesting I might join them but wouldn't sit down when Im bored to watch telly. There is always something more interesting to do.

looking_around

I didn't even have a tv til I moved in with my partner.

I only get into maybe one or two series at a time and I might watch them online on a day that I'm ill or w/e.

I read and lurks the internet, feels like I'm doing 'something' rather than staring at the pretty colours :P

OneArt

I watch all my programs on the Internet. I detest not being able to watch what I want when I want to which is why I never bothered getting a TV. Also German TV is absolute sh!te (and I thought RTE was bad...).

While I can understand older people being surprised, people my age in Germany are always amazed that I don't have a TV or radio. Wtf is the point if you have the Internet?

ONeill2013

online TV would still count as TV, just on a different display monitor. I watch a lot, but i'm in the industry so it is excusable, mostly documentaries though.

whirlpool

I do not watch tv. We never had a tv growing up. I actually didn't even know what a tv was until I was 15.

No, only joking. I watch tv probably more than is healthy for any living creature. But generally on less-than-legal streaming sites - very rarely on an actual television set.

Oink

Hi, my name is Oink, and I have been TV-free for 24 days .

It was easier than I thought. Except the part when I had to delete all the episodes of NCIS, Hawaii 5-0 etc that I had recorded...

I have loads of time to practice my music now

bonzodog2

At home, just a few programmes on BBC4 via iPlayer, on the laptop. When I'm elsewhere I have other stuff inflicted on me.

Seachmall

Don't watch it anywhere near as much as I used to, maybe an hour or two a week.

vitani

At the moment, the only program I sit down and watch at its scheduled time is The Apprentice. Otherwise, I don't really watch much. When Dexter starts back in June, I'll acquire it and watch it when I get a chance, but that's pretty much it.

I don't get much free time and I hate wasting it on TV. I probably sit down once a week and just switch it on to see what's on but rarely even make it to the end of a program before I have to go do something else.

Actually, that's a lie. I see plenty of Peppa Pig, In the Night Garden, Hubble, Thomas the Tank Engine and whatever else RTÉ Jr shows.

Crushed Dry Ice

OneArt wrote: »

I watch all my programs on the Internet. I detest not being able to watch what I want when I want to which is why I never bothered getting a TV. Also German TV is absolute sh!te (and I thought RTE was bad...).

While I can understand older people being surprised, people my age in Germany are always amazed that I don't have a TV or radio. Wtf is the point if you have the Internet?

Because watching programmes on a computer or laptop screen is painful. Lying down on your couch watching programmes on a 50 inch flat screen is a much better experience.

Seachmall

vitani wrote: »

Actually, that's a lie. I see plenty of Peppa Pig, In the Night Garden, Hubble, Thomas the Tank Engine and whatever else RTÉ Jr shows.

Are you a mother or do you just wake and bake a lot?

vitani

Seachmall wrote: »

Are you a mother or do you just wake and bake a lot?

The first one.

Mr Benevolent

Nope, never ever watch TV unless I'm in someone else's house and they have it on.

branie

Yes I do

Crushed Dry Ice

Yes I watch it. It's fantastic. Love tv.

Agricola

Would like to get rid of sky, but I watch lots of stuff on the documentary channels. Ads literally every 5 minutes these days drives me nuts so its Sky+ all the way.

frank reynolds

dont watch MUCH telly really. i used to be mad for it, i'd watch anything, even the soaps if there was nothing else going. but now, i havent any interest in it, and just watch youtube music vids and the only show i'd follow is the Walking Dead, but i watch that online.

Thanks for reminding me op, must ring UPC and get them to downgrade my tv package actually.

IamtheWalrus

It has become uncool to like TV.

drunk_monk

All I watch now a days is Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom, which is brilliant! After my son has gone to bed it's the internet for me, elfs love the internet and I'm an elf bbbbrrrrrr!

flutterflye

I tried to turn on the tv few weeks ago and we had no channels bar RTE1 and the god channel. I didn't know why, so next day called UPC, and they said that it was because our UPC box hadn't been turned on in so long, it'd lost it's memory! Wtf?! They said we had to turn it on and then call them and then they'd send some code through the box or something. That seemed like too much effort, so just haven't bothered doing that yet. There's no point - none of us ever watch it like.

Fukuyama

Laptop ftw.

Wouldn't even know what channels show what shows these days to be honest. Last time I remember really watching TV on a regular basis was when I was still in secondary school. So 17 y/o max. Five years since then. Mostly because I work nights and am in college during the day so when the hell could I watch TV.

Internets are way better.

johnny_knoxvile

when you say "tv" you mean transvestite?

Captain Chaos

Stopped watching TV around 2002/3. It's all reality crap and with a good broadband connection I don't see the need for TV at all.

WoollyRedHat

ONeill2013 wrote: »

online TV would still count as TV, just on a different display monitor. I watch a lot, but i'm in the industry so it is excusable, mostly documentaries though.

How'd you get into the industry.

sunflower27

I love the ID (Information Discovery) channel

Watching it now, in fact!

Green Giant

I know that watching stuff online is all the rage nowadays but I still prefer sinking into the couch and staring at the oul telly.

Sky Sports is definitely option number one but you may also find me taking in some classic comedy such as Father Ted or The Simpsons

ixoy

Watch TV on the regular commercial channels here? Very little - only a few British shows.

However, I do watch a lot of TV programmes acquired from other sources and on a TV set (use a HDMI cable - why watch it on a laptop or monitor if you don't have to).

I assume those people saying they don't watch TV mean they don't watch it in any format - be it regular network channels, downloaded, streaming, etc. Because I see it all as TV just in different formats / mediums.

Crushed Dry Ice

Green Giant wrote: »

I know that watching stuff online is all the rage nowadays but I still prefer sinking into the couch and staring at the oul telly.

Sky Sports is definitely option number one but you may also find me taking in some classic comedy such as Father Ted or The Simpsons

Couldn't agree more, I don't get how you can prefer to watch something on a computer screen ahead of a tv. It's just not comfortable. Do people actually watch full movies on laptops?

S28382

I watch paint dry.........thats how exciting my life is. so i dont have time for tv.