Do you watch tv?

Crushed Dry Ice · 23-05-2013 11:32AM

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 · 23-05-2013 11:36AM

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 · 23-05-2013 11:39AM

Seachmall wrote: »

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

The first one.

Mr Benevolent · 23-05-2013 11:39AM

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

branie · 23-05-2013 11:42AM

Yes I do

Crushed Dry Ice · 23-05-2013 11:43AM

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

Agricola · 23-05-2013 11:47AM

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 · 23-05-2013 11:50AM

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 · 23-05-2013 11:52AM

It has become uncool to like TV.

drunk_monk · 23-05-2013 11:56AM

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 · 23-05-2013 11:58AM

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 · 23-05-2013 11:58AM

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 · 23-05-2013 12:00PM

when you say "tv" you mean transvestite?

Captain Chaos · 23-05-2013 12:04PM

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 · 23-05-2013 12:07PM

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 · 23-05-2013 01:27PM

I love the ID (Information Discovery) channel

Watching it now, in fact!

Green Giant · 23-05-2013 01:57PM

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 · 23-05-2013 02:00PM

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 · 23-05-2013 02:06PM

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 · 23-05-2013 02:23PM

I watch paint dry.........thats how exciting my life is.

so i dont have time for tv.

Retrovertigo · 23-05-2013 03:26PM

kylith · 23-05-2013 03:33PM

TV is generally just on in the background. I'd get it out altogether only my mother would complain when she came round to visit.

Anything I actually want to watch I download, with two exceptions: Doctor Who and the UK version of Mythbusters.

SunnyDub1 · 23-05-2013 03:36PM

I watch a lot of TV in the winter, when the nights are cold and dark and all you want to do is veg out and watch a decent show, film etc plus theres better stuff shown in the winter as appose to summer tv :rolleyes:

Now that it's summer I watch fcuk all. Might watch the soaps if in my mams, or watch stuff online.

ixoy · 23-05-2013 03:41PM

kylith wrote: »

Anything I actually want to watch I download, with two exceptions: Doctor Who and the UK version of Mythbusters.

But how do you watch it? On a laptop/monitor or output to the TV?
And in fact if you're downloading a TV show then that means you're watching TV I'd have thought.

kylith · 23-05-2013 03:43PM

ixoy wrote: »

But how do you watch it? On a laptop/monitor or output to the TV?

Doctor Who and Mythbusers are on UPC

Everything else gets beamed from the laptop to the telly via Apple TV. I don't mind watching stuff on my laptop; the resolution's better than my telly, and it doesn't have burn-in.

And if a show isn't on Irish TV can it be called 'watching telly'?

Galwayguy35 · 23-05-2013 03:46PM

Yeah I watch a lot of television, I like Deadliest Catch on Discovery and the wildlife programmes on Nat Geo, the crime channels are good as well.

Ryuji_w · 23-05-2013 03:53PM

The only TV/netfilx i watch is the odd movie and csi(all three) law and order svu and criminal minds thats about it, can't stand ads so all recorded

SunnyDub1 · 23-05-2013 03:58PM

kylith wrote: »

And if a show isn't on Irish TV can it be called 'watching telly'?

yes

Stereomaniac · 23-05-2013 04:05PM

I watch WWF and Criminal Minds every week. Then I might watch some old stuff late each night.

kylith · 23-05-2013 04:11PM

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

yes

I see them more like something that's been recorded; if you put a DVD on you don't say you're watching telly, you say you're watching a DVD.

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