Do you still watch TV?

skoomi · 03-07-2012 10:32PM #1

I watch pretty much everything on the laptop nowadays, the only reason I would look at a TV is if the flatmates are watching something.

Regular "telly" is on the way out. What do you think?

FanadMan · 03-07-2012 10:35PM

Not everyone has access to high speed reliable broadband

Regular tv will be still going 20 years from now.......I hope

Shryke · 03-07-2012 10:35PM

I couldn't follow a show on TV if I wanted to anymore. Waiting until that specific night and time and sitting there looking at endless ads with your brain dripping out of your ears. It's horrible. It's like queuing at the bank.

Captain Chaos · 03-07-2012 10:37PM

I stopped about 10 years ago when I lost all interest in TV. There has been nothing on TV that I actually want to sit down and watch. All I use a TV for is gaming and watching downloaded stuff. There is not a single sitcom or series I like on TV ever since the Simpsons went to crap in 2000. Don't like Lost, The Wire or any of the other cool to watch series.

mauzo · 03-07-2012 10:39PM

If something interests me on the TV, Ill watch it on the internet.

My room mates would watch stuff and Id be interested in it, but 1 week later Im 2 seasons ahead.

What the hell is the point?!

DEFTLEFTHAND · 03-07-2012 10:40PM

Sky+ keeps me watching. There's still a great variety of channels and programmes to get lost in.

the groutch · 03-07-2012 10:41PM

TV died in 1999 with the introduction of Big Brother, and led to wave after wave of sh!t reality tv shows

Mint Sauce · 03-07-2012 10:42PM

TV is on in the corner right now. Not paying alot of attention to it now or most evenings to be honest.

Where To · 03-07-2012 10:44PM

10 GB per month doesn't leave a body with an awful lot of choice :mad:

cocoshovel · 03-07-2012 10:44PM

Nope and I havent in about 3 years. I dont watch it on the internet either. Well, mostly. The only thing I do watch is anime, which is really shown on western TV unless you count the crappy dubbed kids shows.

Where To wrote: »

10 GB per month doesn't leave a body with an awful lot of choice

I think I'd kill myself. I average at at about 180gb ish a month. No limit is great.

Nothingbetter2d · 03-07-2012 10:45PM

FanadMan wrote: »

Not everyone has access to high speed reliable broadband Regular tv will be still going 20 years from now.......I hope

[geek mode]

not once analogue tv is shutdown to make room for the LTE broadcasting equipment...

seeing as Eircom has dragged it's heels with rolling out reliable broadband in ireland mobile phone operators will soon be bringing out LTE (4G) services that will use the old analogue tv broadcast frequencies and towers.... they will be able to offer speeds of upto 70mb/s.

Eircom's NGB (Not Good Broadband) is already obsolete technology.

I for one welcome our new LTE overlords

[/geek mode]

bnt · 03-07-2012 10:47PM

Some TV can be good e.g. tonight I watched an excellent BBC production of Shakespeare's Richard II, recorded the other night. The Proms are starting soon. Some good movies too - and DVR means you can skip ads and build up a stock of episodes to watch at once. It's not all trash.

christmas2012 · 03-07-2012 10:50PM

not really if walking dead series is on(its on rte) ill watch it then..

Conchir · 03-07-2012 10:51PM

I've never liked watching programmes online. I actually like that I have to wait, programmes start and end the way they do to build suspense and stuff, I think that's lost if I just watch everything in one go. It also gives time for the episode to sink in. Watching it on tv means there's a specific time each week I can look forward to to watch something.

EchoO · 03-07-2012 10:53PM

I probably watch less in week now than used to watch in day in the not to distant past. There's hardly anything on I want to watch these days. The last must see programmes for me were The Sopranos and The Wire.

Blowfish · 03-07-2012 11:02PM

I don't even have a TV.

RUCKING FETARD · 03-07-2012 11:08PM

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

[geek mode]

not once analogue tv is shutdown to make room for the LTE broadcasting equipment...

seeing as Eircom has dragged it's heels with rolling out reliable broadband in ireland mobile phone operators will soon be bringing out LTE (4G) services that will use the old analogue tv broadcast frequencies and towers.... they will be able to offer speeds of upto 70mb/s.

Eircom's NGB (Not Good Broadband) is already obsolete technology.

I for one welcome our new LTE overlords

[/geek mode]

But in reality you'll be lucky to get......5mb, same as the advertised 21mb we have now might get you 1mb.....and all perfectly legal.

Pushtrak · 03-07-2012 11:10PM

I will never grasp the "I don't watch tv, there is nothing good on" crowd. They defeat their own argument.

dchris · 03-07-2012 11:11PM

Rarely watch TV everything online. Aertv, Various players, Expat shield for UK players.. Ur only man!

Leeg17 · 03-07-2012 11:11PM

I download anything I want to watch, most of the stuff on the channels we have I've already seen before

Elmo · 03-07-2012 11:13PM

I am going back to TV I just can't watch 5 episodes of the one show in a row anymore (maybe 24 but that's the exception). I might record or catch up on line but I'll wait each week, I'll even wait for shows to appear on Free TV and follow at that pace.

I still have feckin' Damages to watch

Diego Maradona · 03-07-2012 11:13PM

Watch mostly sports and very little else although I'm loving TV3's new Pyschic show and following the thread on it on Boards.

03-07-2012 11:14PM

I prefer to watch stuff on tv than online especially with sky HD. Also sky+ means you don't have to be there at the specific time. Its also nice to just sit down and flick through channels and find something good, like you would never hear of half the documentarys on history and discovery etc if you just didn't stumble upon them.

The biggest factor is sport though. I watch a lot of sport Soccer and Golf being two of the most and I hate streams, I couldn't be without a sky sports subscription.

Now I do watch downloads too but its mostly stuff that isn't shown here until a long time after the US or something that I start following after its been shown already on tv.

Nothingbetter2d · 03-07-2012 11:15PM

RUCKING FETARD wrote: »

But in reality you'll be lucky to get......5mb, same as the advertised 21mb we have now might get you 1mb.....and all perfectly legal.

no it seems to work well in other countries... granted 70mb/s will probably not be realistic but even if we get 50mb/s out of the 70mb/s its still way better than eircom's antique infrastructure

RUCKING FETARD · 03-07-2012 11:18PM

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

no it seems to work well in other countries... granted 70mb/s will probably not be realistic but even if we get 50mb/s out of the 70mb/s its still way better than eircom's antique infrastructure

What sorta download Cap are you talking?

I'm near sure I read we have a better cap than some of europe on our mobile networks now.

I know I'll waste an hour if I start googiling it:rolleyes:.....

Novella · 03-07-2012 11:19PM

Pretty much never watch tv.

mackg · 03-07-2012 11:21PM

Still watch the Simpsons, nearly all my sport, some discovery stuff, music docs on channels like Sky Arts and BBC 4.

I watch nowhere near as much as I used to though when TV was what I did for the night regardless of what was on. Internet and XBL have taken a huge chunk of the time that once would have been devoted to TV.

Outside of the stuff I have mentioned time spent watching TV is mostly just conversation between me and my friends with little attention being paid to what's on.

Agree completely about trying to watch a series at a specific time every week. After having the freedom of watching whenever I choose it would be hard to go back.

Mr Benevolent · 03-07-2012 11:22PM

No, not at all. I don't watch any shows or movies at all.

Ishmael · 03-07-2012 11:22PM

Only watch live sport and stuff on T.V. I'd rarely watch T.V. shows these days. Usually only the odd episode of father ted or blackadder. I think i watched far too much T.V. when i was younger and am just kinda bored with it now. I will generally only make it as far as the first ad break when i watch anything now.

meoklmrk91 · 03-07-2012 11:23PM

Like yourself OP, I gave up watching TV years ago, I now watch computer. Seriously though, no ads, on demand, great quality, you get to watch shows that we don't get here, and you don't have to wait an extra six months to a year to see the next season. I have a TV, it is connected to my Xbox and my PS3 and that is it. I have grown to hate the fact that the television is always on in peoples houses, even just as background noise, it's so annoying :mad:

Pottler · 03-07-2012 11:24PM

Sky got cut off when I changed credit card and forgot to tell them. Didn't bother getting it back. Kids watch netflix, via xbox on house TV and noone misses regular TV. I'll leave it off.

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