Do you watch the Telly?

Patrick Wheelock · 04-10-2015 07:36PM

MadDog76 wrote: »

I don't trust people who don't watch telly, they're always quite odd.

Too cool for school

Up their own arse

Usually narcissists like Jane Ruffino

Bongalongherb · 04-10-2015 08:18PM

They call it the
idiot-box for a reason

04-10-2015 08:24PM

Nope. We have a TV but it's used for the Xbox mainly. We sometimes stream Netflix etc if we want to watch something.

Agricola · 04-10-2015 08:28PM

Yeah, like the odd documentary on BBC3/4, Nat Geo etc. Then theres the sport, have to have it for that. Thats about it

boobar · 04-10-2015 08:29PM

. Pay for Sky and Sky Boxsets.

The main TV is so old I can't even connect a chromecast to it, so I "watch telly".

Can't wait for it to stop working so I can pick up a Smart TV.

Sh1tbag OToole · 04-10-2015 09:04PM

No TV, no Netflix, nothing

I torrent the odd film, then don't watch it, used to torrent and watch Game of Thrones but I'll stop doing that too if it becomes too dragged out. I just don't have the patience. I'd rather be doing something than soaking up some canned entertainment from afar.

paleoperson · 04-10-2015 09:11PM

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

No TV, no Netflix, nothing

I torrent the odd film, then don't watch it, used to torrent and watch Game of Thrones but I'll stop doing that too if it becomes too dragged out. I just don't have the patience. I'd rather be doing something than soaking up some canned entertainment from afar.

Something such as posting on after hours?

Samsgirl · 04-10-2015 09:15PM

Not really before 9pm - unless it's Peppa Pig / Ben & Holly / Paw Patrol.

Too tired by then to concentrate on much by the time I get to sit and chill.

NachoBusiness · 04-10-2015 09:15PM

Haven't switched the TV on in years.

Just use it as a shelf to stack Neil Degrasse Tyson books now.

petrolcan · 04-10-2015 09:25PM

Live TV, just the news.

Torrent plenty so always have something to watch. Spent the last fortnight binge watching GoT, Breaking Bad next.

Menas · 04-10-2015 09:25PM

I watch an average of 2 hours tv a night. Usually box sets or something I have recorded. It is way too much TBH.

wil · 04-10-2015 09:49PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I don't know how you folks watch movies on a small tablet or phone screen. To me, that's like going to the Palais Garnier to see Richie Kavanagh.

With you on that. Completely lose any "experience" on the tiny screen.
But then everything is smaller, so why not minds.

Barely There · 04-10-2015 10:07PM

Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.

AA Gill

Bongalongherb · 04-10-2015 10:11PM

boobar wrote: »

. Pay for Sky and Sky Boxsets.

The main TV is so old I can't even connect a chromecast to it, so I "watch telly".

Can't wait for it to stop working so I can pick up a Smart TV.

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We can see that your old tv is on the way out, so upgrade now while this offer still lasts.

suicide_circus · 04-10-2015 10:18PM

Nope got rid of UPC tv a while back.

Garlito · 04-10-2015 10:20PM

Have kodi /xbmc can watch what you want with out ads.

Bongalongherb · 04-10-2015 10:27PM

If they made intelligent or funny adverts I wouldn't mind so much because if it makes you laugh - then it can only be good. But the adverts on tv these days are insanity...flying talking birds with talking cows and head-cases running around of which look like a person escaped from a lunatic asylum. Nobody should have to endure suck insanity.

I liked the pot noodle advert because that was the only advert that actually converted me and more especially brainwashed me. Subliminal messages for me to buy a Bombay Bad Boy pot noodle.

AppleBottle · 04-10-2015 10:38PM

We had Sky for years and now switched to eVision. I don't want a lot of shows on the TV anymore because I tend to miss shows I would like to watch. Mostly just watch stuff online when I have a the time too.

MadDog76 · 04-10-2015 10:53PM

I don't get all the advert complaints ........... if I want to watch something on tv I'll record it and watch it after I've watched the programme I've recorded earlier ........ I've watched hours of tv without ever having to watch an ad!

ygolometsipe · 04-10-2015 11:09PM

I remember the black and white tv, Jesus that was a thing :eek:

feeling old....

osarusan · 04-10-2015 11:23PM

Yes I do.

News most nights and sports.

Don't have netflix or anything other than a skybox (no subscription of any kind, so 99% of channels are unavailable) so I have Irish and a few UK channels.

I can't ever get Sky Sports as I'd do nothing else but watch it all day.

paleoperson · 04-10-2015 11:27PM

I also use my tv a lot for satellite radio. Not sure what the exalted ones think of that.

chrissb8 · 04-10-2015 11:30PM

I barely do. Maybe just for half an hour everyonce in a while if I'm waiting to go somewhere or just to kill a bit of time. I find it funny when people talk about the film their going to watch that night on TV or their show. I love the power of downloading. Hate the structure of ad breaks and that. Just give it to me now and uninterrupted!

Wompa1 · 04-10-2015 11:32PM

Got rid of it 3 years ago. I don't miss it much, it also makes going to a hotel an extra treat since that's the only time I have access to a TV.

EoinAFC · 04-10-2015 11:34PM

Filmon lets you watch frreview on the laptop, always a handy resource.

ixoy · 04-10-2015 11:40PM

I dropped my UPC TV package but I would never get rid of my TV. Why would I watch shows on a laptop screen or tablet when I can watch it on a much bigger TV display? I'm surprised so many are content to watch films and shows on small screens. If they're sourced from the 'net, it's easy to output to a TV and you've got a greater cinematic experience.

Penn · 05-10-2015 09:05AM

I use a combination of Netflix and general streaming. Don't have any TV stations in the house, if there's something on TV that I want to watch I have to find a stream for it (which is easy enough anyway).

The worst part about it though is that I never have any idea what time it is any more when I'm at home. On the rare occasions I do want to watch something live on TV, I have to set an alarm for it or chances are it'll be half over by the time I realise what time it is.

The Corinthian · 05-10-2015 09:27AM

I got rid of my TV about ten years ago. One day I realized that I never watched anything on it - at most it was background noise, maybe CNN or Sky News, but nothing else. As with others, time was an issue where it came to something that might interest me, and it has increasingly become easier to get such programmes 'on demand' via the Internet. And I really didn't fancy paying a TV licence for something I didn't use, let alone ever watch anything on RTE.

The Internet has done to TV, what TV did to radio.

Whitewinged · 05-10-2015 10:20AM

Penn wrote: »

I use a combination of Netflix and general streaming. Don't have any TV stations in the house, if there's something on TV that I want to watch I have to find a stream for it (which is easy enough anyway).

The worst part about it though is that I never have any idea what time it is any more when I'm at home. On the rare occasions I do want to watch something live on TV, I have to set an alarm for it or chances are it'll be half over by the time I realise what time it is.

In a way it used to be kind of nicer.

I never watch the soaps now and i know they are not great tv but my family used to sit together at a certain time every evening and watch them and joke about the charachters. You had to be there at a certain time or else youd miss it and there was less individual choice of what to watch, you had to comprimise a bit more but with on demand and netflicks its a bit more personal choice but also isolating.

We always watched gameshows to and played together. My husband and i watch The Antiques Road Show on a Sunday and theres a game with that show like a teletext game where they give multiple choice and you can guess the price of the item. Im quite good at it ha. I kind of hate The Antiques Roadshow but we used to watch it in my house growing up so I kind of like it too

I suppose tv in some households took away people sitting at the table or sitting around the radio but my use of tv has definately dramatically changed in the last couple of years.

paleoperson · 05-10-2015 12:52PM

Whitewinged wrote: »

In a way it used to be kind of nicer.

I never watch the soaps now and i know they are not great tv but my family used to sit together at a certain time every evening and watch them and joke about the charachters. You had to be there at a certain time or else youd miss it and there was less individual choice of what to watch, you had to comprimise a bit more but with on demand and netflicks its a bit more personal choice but also isolating.

We always watched gameshows to and played together. My husband and i watch The Antiques Road Show on a Sunday and theres a game with that show like a teletext game where they give multiple choice and you can guess the price of the item. Im quite good at it ha. I kind of hate The Antiques Roadshow but we used to watch it in my house growing up so I kind of like it too

I suppose tv in some households took away people sitting at the table or sitting around the radio but my use of tv has definately dramatically changed in the last couple of years.

There's definitely a continuity and even-ness about soaps. Watch a show on netflicks and you can watch an entire season in a few days. Which is great and can be very enjoyable, but then all the characters are gone again for a year. And there's usually one all-encompassing arc, and after the last season is over it's all gone and you have to find something else. I'm not saying soaps are good and barely watch them... just saying they could be good.

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