Which do you spend more time on: The Internet or TV?

Zascar · 05-06-2006 02:21PM #1

I like TV, I am a regular TV Watcher, but I only watch things I know I'm going to enjoy. Unlike many people I do not sit there all day hoping something good will come on, while watching utter rubbish for hours before this happens. This is why I perfer the internet as I control whats on, and I'm generally learning a lot more. I spend a lot more time on the internet than TV, but to most people this is kind of strange.

How about you?

monkeyfudge · 05-06-2006 02:23PM

I tend to do both... I'll watch some junky movie on one of the movie channels that doesn't require too much attention while I work away on the laptop.

byte · 05-06-2006 02:23PM

Would use the internet more, and may even use the internet to watch TV.

Zascar · 05-06-2006 02:24PM

Yes I would gnerally have the TV on in the background, but if somehting comes on that I want to watch proiperly, I'll sit down on the couch and watch it

Sarky · 05-06-2006 02:27PM

I bought a tv for one reason- to watch Invader Zim as my computer has no multi region DVD drive.

kiffer · 05-06-2006 02:32PM

Mum asked me some thing like this the other day...
If you had a choice ... Internet or TV?
The answer was straight away Internet...
She said she agreed, if she could keep only one TV would be gone with out too much though.
As more people get used to the internet, TV totaly takes a secondary place.

Terry · 05-06-2006 02:33PM

both at the same time.
tv is just to the right of my pc.

Ruu_Old · 05-06-2006 02:35PM

Both at the same time and also internet telleh.

takola · 05-06-2006 02:39PM

I definitely spend way more time on the net. Though the tv is sometimes on in the background.

eiretamicha · 05-06-2006 02:41PM

I hate TV. With a passion. So definitley spend more time on the net.

That said, I do have a love for movies.

Zascar · 05-06-2006 02:42PM

Where are the best places to watch tv on the Internet?

ST* · 05-06-2006 02:50PM

Definitely use the net more. I pay for the full Sky package, most of it is just crap. Not a tv fan at all.

padi89 · 05-06-2006 02:52PM

I only like documentrys,panorama,newsnight ,horizon type programmes.Cant stand soaps,sitcoms,lost(type shows).Jezz im some boring fvcker.

Zascar · 05-06-2006 02:57PM

I like discovery channel shows like How Stuff Works, and comedy like Scrubs etc. not a lot else

Pigman II · 05-06-2006 03:40PM

Definetly Internet. The tv I have here can be switched off for weeks at a time truth be told.

Ironically I still subscribe to Digiguide (just to be sure there's nothing good on).

KdjaCL · 05-06-2006 03:43PM

Sky got cut off there the other week havent been arsed getting it back on till about august or so.

I dont miss still see all the tv shows we watch, WC on BBC and aww no BB for a while

kdjac

Rhyme · 05-06-2006 03:45PM

Television is alright but i prefer the internet... it always guarantees something good to watch/play/etc...

tinka · 05-06-2006 03:47PM

internet, i don't have a tv. even if i did, it would probably still be the internet.

smemon · 05-06-2006 03:57PM

i only watch TV for football matches or if im with the gf watching a movie or something.

the internet is the TV of the 90's. instead of couch potatoes, you have desk potatoes.

constitutionus · 05-06-2006 04:13PM

this is something i really only noticed recently. i used to watch WAY too much telly growing up, circa 40 hours a week which is longer than the legal working week. but ever since we got over 6 stations telly's slowly being going down the swany. so much so that like someone else posted i really only watch it now as backround noise and the must see shows/movies i know i like.

personally i blame the programmers. i dont like soaps and i loath the whole reality ****e thats flooding the airwaves. i mean what kind of retard actually watches big brother? increasingly i end up either watching the news or discovery which is a god send in terms of some of its programming (the how things are made program can be really cool, not to mentions superstructures. really interesting to see how a jumbo jet is made)
honestly in the last week the only thing that struck me as being even remotely interesting was a program on BBC about the life of a sperm whale done in CGI . it was a hell of alot more fun than i thought. particularly the bit where it wandered into a military war game and damn near got killed by their sonar tech. and the fight scenes between it and the antartic giant squid was class.

i cant help thinking the problem is the over abundance of stations. when we only had 6 most of the ****e that gets axed in one season was filtered out. now theres practically a station for everything and as such its damn hard to find a single station with a good selection of different types. as a result im on line more and more simply because the variety is better . this keeps up TV Could be fecked

Zascar · 05-06-2006 04:15PM

Ratings are already dropping slightly across the board. Kids are now asking their parents can they use the internet for a few hours after school - not the tv. Google are heading into the TV area - A definite sign of things to come.

blocparty · 05-06-2006 04:21PM

i spend about half and half really but thats only if you consider watching tv shows on my laptop as watching tv. i def spend more time on my laptop thatn the tv

Giblet · 05-06-2006 04:26PM

I don't really watch TV anymore except maybe the news or a good film. Maybe 2 hours a week.

Faith · 05-06-2006 05:15PM

I do both at the same time, but I mostly use the internet.

Anto McC · 05-06-2006 07:28PM

Reality TV is responsible for killing TV!!

I used to watch a lot of TV,then reality tv started and now i hardly watch TV at all,the only thing i still watch is sports and The Simpsons!

Kinetic^ · 05-06-2006 07:30PM

Internet for sure, there's too much crap on tv these days but when I do watch it, it's generally paramount comedy 1/2, sports channels or Top Gear that I watch.

qz · 05-06-2006 07:32PM

Internet. TV is full of shíte, and one or two programmes that I'd try get around to watching weekly.

the Shades · 05-06-2006 07:47PM

Internet work has reduced the amount of time I have to watch tv and so I use the internet more, so when I'm off at the weekends I still use the net. Only watch about 2 or 3 things on tv these days. i'd rather go out

Wertz · 05-06-2006 08:21PM

I watch a lot of d/led TV...but since that is all done over a net connection, to me, it counts as intarweb...in terms of BBC, RTE etc (don't have sky) I'd watch maybe 1-2 hrs a day, and the majority of that is news/current affairs/documentary/quiz type stuff...
The thoughts of avidly tuning into Deal or no deal, Big Brother, Celebrity come dancing or whatever other shíte passes for mass entertainment these days would be enough to make me stab myself in the eyes with a crochet needle

Kintarō Hattori · 05-06-2006 08:21PM

I definetly use the internet more, as we don't watch much TV. Whenever I aim to watch a show, we inevitably end up going out or doing something else. So the internet!!!

iFight · 05-06-2006 09:52PM

Id go on the net more, dont really watch tv much, or go on the the net, but ive been on here alot lately;)

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