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Do you still watch TV?

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  • #32
    supernova84
    Closed Accounts Posts: 972 ✭✭✭supernova84


    Chewing gum for the eyes Dougal


  • #33
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Haven't really watched TV for about five years. TV sucks balls.


  • #34
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Pottler wrote: »
    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.

    If you still have the Skybox & dish, just take the Sky card out of the box & you'll get all of channels that are on Freeview (BBC, C4, ITV, Film 4 etc).

    You also still get the Sky electronic programme guide. Not sure how, but it still works.


  • #35
    Mister Jingles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭Mister Jingles


    Nowhere near as much as I used to up to about 3 years ago. Tele is just ****e now a day, simple as.


  • #36
    Pushtrak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    I really wonder how many people here have actually not seen, for instance, Dexter or Breaking Bad... There are a load of other great shows on, too but people say they haven't watched anything in years. So, "I didn't like it" isn't really an answer, as if you didn't like it, you watched it and found it not to your liking.


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  • #37
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    I don't even have a tv. Tried to watch the one in the living room of my house after months of watching my laptop, the amount of ads just drove me crazy and I couldn't do it!


  • #38
    wes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭wes


    I am amazed that so many would choose to watch on a tiny laptop screen. Surely, anyone with a laptop (or even a tablet) bought recently have a HDMI out, so they can watch stuff on the big screen?

    Personally, I just plugged my desktop into my tv, so I can stream stuff as I like into my TV. Also, still have Sky for my Mum, and I watch that as well from time to time, but I think I use Sky Go a lot more, to watch stuff on demand.


  • #39
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Laptop screens aren't tiny, particularly if you sit close to them


  • #40
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Laptop screens aren't tiny, particularly if you sit close to them

    Mine sits on my belly about 20 inches away from my face!


  • #41
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 9,904 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Well the Angelus is always enjoyable.


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  • #42
    Pushtrak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    Manach wrote: »
    Well the Angelus is always enjoyable.
    TL;DW


  • #43
    wes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭wes


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Laptop screens aren't tiny, particularly if you sit close to them

    Sure, thats true to a degree, but tbh HD content look far better on a 40 or 50 inch tv screen at the end of the day, so considering that laptops have hdmi outs, I find it bizare that people choose an inferior experience, but to each there own.


  • #44
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    the groutch wrote: »
    TV died in 1999 with the introduction of Big Brother, and led to wave after wave of sh!t reality tv shows
    There's only been one good reality TV show, Call of the wildman. Live action.


  • #45
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    Watching TV with the husband most evenings.
    Laptops are nice for short clips and the like, but I wouldn't want to watch a whole film.


  • #46
    healyon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 ✭healyon


    I still watch my tv but the content is from my laptop, i hear people talking about the latest funny ads on the tv and im clueless as i havent seen ads in so long


  • #47
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,161 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    The only thing I watch on TV is Top Gear (when its on) and Formula 1 (which I have the option of watching online too)...


  • #48
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    wes wrote: »
    Sure, thats true to a degree, but tbh HD content look far better on a 40 or 50 inch tv screen at the end of the day, so considering that laptops have hdmi outs, I find it bizare that people choose an inferior experience, but to each there own.

    I have inferior funds.


  • #49
    Bad Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Bad Panda


    I have the TV on in the background sometimes, but mainly I stream/download movies and TV shows.

    Prefer to watch on my schedule rather than the broadcasters.

    Plus it means I get to see TV shows way before they're broadcast here.


  • #50
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,161 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    ScumLord wrote: »
    There's only been one good reality TV show, Call of the wildman. Live action.

    What about Bear Gryll's Born Survivor?
    I loved that show! Sad to see he got sacked...


  • #51
    Pushtrak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    healyon wrote: »
    I still watch my tv but the content is from my laptop, i hear people talking about the latest funny ads on the tv and im clueless as i havent seen ads in so long
    If it weren't for going to the cinema, it'd be the same story for me. I find them especially irritating as that is the only time I have to put up with them and you can almost forget about them.


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  • #52
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


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

    Why do people use broadband that comes with a limit. I didn't even realise people had limits on their broadband until a few days ago when my friend was on about it.
    It makes no sense to me? :L


  • #53
    andy1249
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,578 ✭✭✭andy1249


    Im our house , laptops are associated with work. They never ever get turned on at home, not unless your getting overtime for it in any case.

    We dont do ads or live TV , but these days who does ?

    Everything is either Sky +'d or on the home server , and watched on the 50 inch plasma from the comfort of the sofa whenever the mood takes.

    I left "broke student" behaviour like watching TV programs from a laptop on my belly behind many many years ago , hopefully I wont be in such dire circumstances again.


  • #54
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    af_thefragile wrote: »
    What about Bear Gryll's Born Survivor?
    I loved that show! Sad to see he got sacked...
    Call of the wildman follows the turtleman as he catches snapping turtles, raccoons, possums, wild bore, the only way he knows how, with his bare hands. He's absolutely cracked, I love him.


  • #55
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Very rarely - I'm an internet fiend! :cool:


  • #56
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    RUCKING FETARD wrote: »
    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:.....

    the first link explains about LTE

    the second link is what other operators are currently offering but as demand for LTE goes up i would suspect cap limits would also go up.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_%28telecommunication%29

    http://fastnetnews.com/a-wireless-cloud/61-w/4789-50-gigabyte-lte-55-in-oregon



    it wont ever be better than UPC or Magnet Fibre but if u live out in the sticks where the best dsl u can get is 1 - 3mb/s then it would be a better option.


  • #57
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


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

    How true that is.

    1) I rarely watch it, the constant barrage of moronic ads forced down your throat just ruins any & all continuity in a tv show.
    2) The picture quality [SD & even HD] doesn't hold a candle to true digital content
    3) I prefer to watch what I want, when I want.
    4) Films on TV are usually cut to bits
    5) There really is very little of interest showing, it's mostly 'celeb's & socialites' giving their purile opinions on life and that's sh1t I seriously wouldn't waste my time on.

    That being said, I wonder how long it'll take before we gets ads interjected into streaming services like Netflix etc. If you've ever watched Hulu or the American streaming services, they sometimes obliterate the content with short ads over short intervals. I can see this eventually creeping its way into other options like Netflix before long. Advertising is big business.

    TL : DR? HTPC. /thread


  • #58
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    wes wrote: »
    Sure, thats true to a degree, but tbh HD content look far better on a 40 or 50 inch tv screen at the end of the day, so considering that laptops have hdmi outs, I find it bizare that people choose an inferior experience, but to each there own.

    I've never actually watched a TV that size so I'll take your word for it.


  • #59
    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,093 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Some channels on TV are great, some channels I wonder why the hell they persist with them. Believe it or not there are still some shows being shown on TV that cannot easily be found online. Some channels just insult the intelligence. MTV has become like something out of idiocracy, Comedy Central spoils us with never ending double bills of Two and a Half Men and their five standup comedy specials. The worst thing about television is just the constant constant ad breaks that are getting longer and louder with each passing year. The TV people need to work out a way of reworking ads so they are as unintrusive as possible but that is a nigh on impossible task.


  • #60
    mtjm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 461 ✭✭mtjm


    What I've tended to do latley is record various items on Magnet + and watch it later or something, only thing I do watch is the news or if I do forget to record I look online


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  • #61
    Jarren
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,689 ✭✭✭Jarren


    Not tv in my apt,watching tv content on the laptop.


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