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Does anyone actually watch TV any more?

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  • #62
    cashback
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭cashback


    Mooby wrote: »
    nor can I read novels - I blame facebook/twitter/youtube (tho I love them!) - bite sized slices of entertainment, no need to concentrate for long.

    OK, you need to turn off your wireless or your phone, or do something to deny yourself internet access now and then. It's not worth missing out on reading a novel in favour of trawling through Facebook and Twitter.

    Unless it's a Dan Brown novel.


  • #63
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Don't like celeb shows, cookery shows, hospital shows, soaps, sport, movies I saw 5-10 years ago.

    Not a whole lot left after that.


  • #64
    paulbok
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,373 ✭✭✭paulbok


    I watch a lot less tv now than I did say 5 years ago and what I do watch is usually not at the time of broadcast. Mostly down to other interests and that even on the educational/discovery type channels, the content is dumbed down to hell for prime time.

    I set the dvr for any series I do watch so I can watch it at my convenience and skip the adds. I tend to use the "source that dare not speak it's name" for shows that are not available either at this time or with my provider.

    Outside of news & sports I'd rarely watch tv live and it's usually tv grazing, don't really care if I see it or not such as The Simpsons, Masterchef, movies.


  • #65
    paulbok
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,373 ✭✭✭paulbok


    Fishyfreak wrote: »
    Poster 1: Oh I haven't watched tv in 2 years.
    Poster 2: I haven't watched it in 8 years.
    Poster 3: I've never owned a tv.
    Poster 4: What's a tv?
    Poster 5: I just live in a f*ckin cave that has broadband.

    Is not watching tv the new hipster thing?

    But they still are on the internet every 10 minutes..
    Bit like saying I stopped drinking 2 years ago, but am now using crack.


  • #66
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Doc Ruby wrote: »
     And DVDs.

    You watch them while smoking your pipe and resting up your trick hip Granpa? Ehh? Ehh?


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  • #67
    Mooby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭Mooby


    cashback wrote: »
    OK, you need to turn off your wireless or your phone, or do something to deny yourself internet access now and then. It's not worth missing out on reading a novel in favour of trawling through Facebook and Twitter.

    Unless it's a Dan Brown novel.


    With you on all counts - planning on a digital retreat very soon ;)


  • #68
    BASHIR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 554 ✭✭✭BASHIR


    I come home and watch the same sitcom everyday for half an hour, don't care if it's a repeat. I find it mind numbingly therapeutic.


  • #69
    [-0-]
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭[-0-]


    I have netflix hooked up to my TV, no cable.

    The difference for me, and my main excuse really, is that I live in America and I just can't handle the adverts. You think 15 minutes per hour is bad? Over here, they show the opening credits, then jump to ads. At the end of the show they'll show ads, then come back for the closing credits, then go to ads again, not to mention the amount of ads during the show as well. A 43 minute show can often be on for close to 2 hours with the amount of ads they show (depending on the network).

    I still watch the RTE News, The Sunday Game, whatever GAA and Rugby games are on back home.

    I also read a ridiculous amount so don't really have time for TV to be honest (well, time for THEIR schedule, at least). I've no idea how people make time for having a Playstation or an XBox, but that's another debate.


  • #70
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Doc Ruby wrote: »
    I don't think I know anyone under the age of 50 that actually watches the telly any more. The options here aren't that great anyway, are they any different anywhere I suppose, we have RTE, saorview, Sky where half the channels are just repeats of the other half, with adverts every five minutes, which you pay a monthly fee to watch, and so on.

    Most of the news I get from the internet, movies shows and entertainment are for the most part free and legally available online, most music even you can queue up a youtube playlist, maybe watching a match down the pub involves broadcast telly but that's it. A good collection of DVDs is better by far than most nights on the box.

    So I say, the TV is dead! Long live the internet. And DVDs.
    Long live DVD's? I can safely say I've not watched a DVD in 5 years and doubt very much I'll ever buy one.
    Fishyfreak wrote: »
    Poster 1: Oh I haven't watched tv in 2 years.
    Poster 2: I haven't watched it in 8 years.
    Poster 3: I've never owned a tv.
    Poster 4: What's a tv?
    Poster 5: I just live in a f*ckin cave that has broadband.

    Is not watching tv the new hipster thing?
    Having no tv has always been a hipster thing. Not using facebook is another. Pity not using the internet isn't up there too


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