Television ?

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 10:38 pm

How much TV do you watch?

I'm talking about Free-To-Air, commercial TV.

I have a 12 inch colour TV, and it gets 4 channels. One of them is a text-song-code-to-play-the-video music channel and the other 3 are commercial TV.

My answer - less than 1 hour a month. Essentially none.

&EDIT&: How did I leave out the "2" between 1 and 3? GRR.

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 11:11 pm

Big gap between under an hour a week and under an hour a day. No wonder the majority fit there.
I have cable on a single televsion, three teenagers and a wife that works out of the home.
Even if there was something to watch I would never get control of the thing long enough to see it.

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 1:27 am

I don't watch it because it sucks.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 2:22 am

Ditto Iceman! But the thing is this - there's SO MUCH great TV out there! This is what confuses me greatly.

I figured most people would be watching 2-4 hours a day - but this is the DBB so it's necessarily not a picture of "average" people.

Robo · Post by **Robo** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 2:22 am

Under 1 hour a day. The news, and the small period between calling my girlfriend and going to sleep..

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 2:54 am

None. Don't even have a TV.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 3:10 am

I use the TV to play console games.

Flabby Chick · Post by **Flabby Chick** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 3:19 am

I catch the news every now and again, and a few of the english sit-coms or whodunnit stuff, that's about it. No i tell a lie, when there's football on i'm glued to the Telly.

The kids watch about an hour or so a day, not because i enforce any rules or anything, just that they're too busy. I guess we're lucky to live in an enviroment that they can play outside all afternoon with friends without us being worried. (aged 11 and 8 )

TV is cool but it's not a big focus of our family.

.....now the grill for the BBQ is a completly different matter entirely, i can stare at that for hours on end.

DigiJo · Post by **DigiJo** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 3:30 am

usually under 1 hour a day, often my tv isnt switched on for 2 or 3 days. what i watch occasionaly is news, movies and docus. internet became more important and way more interessting than tv.

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 3:46 am

I never watch TV ever. Yet I have a tuner card in my PC tapping the cable, so any channel is just a few mouseclicks away. Can't be bothered.

Unix · Post by **Unix** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 11:43 am

I love to watch the cold case files on a&e. Makes me feel good to see a bad guy go down after 15 years.

Vertigo 99 · Post by **Vertigo 99** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 12:40 pm

i watch about 2, MAYBE 3 hours a week. this is highly unregular though. depends if theres a good movie or show on...

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 2:21 pm

There are very few reasons to watch TV, but one is definetly Adult Swim. I generaly just watch an hour or two of that a night.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 2:29 pm

I think my weather channel watching might add up to like 1 hour a week... maybe.

TheCops · Post by **TheCops** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 2:33 pm

i only watch quality programs like elimi-date, the oc, the swan, and jack van impe presents...

oh yea, maybe a football game here and there.

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 2:53 pm

Jeez, how can some of you not watch any TV?

I watch at least 2 hours a day. Right now, I'm watching Lost, South Park, Drawn Together, ER, Star Trek: Enterprise, and the Simpsons once a week. Plus, there's football every Sunday/Monday night, as well as the odd good movie. It boggles the mind when people say there's nothing good on TV; if you cut through all of the reality show/cheesy sitcom crap, there are some really great shows on.

DarkHorse · Post by **DarkHorse** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 3:17 pm

None of the stuff worth watching is on free-to-air TV. Occasionally, when I'm walking past the TV, a free-to-air channel is screening. There, my fraction of an hour per week.

Sage · Post by **Sage** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 4:01 pm

I don't watch TV that much. I like to watch the South Park on wednesdays, sometimes movies on IFC(Independant Film Channel), nebraska football, sometimes there's good shows on the History Channel, Discovery, and the fighter jet shows on Discovery Wings. Most channels that are being payed for a bull★■◆● and I don't even flick through them. what are we paying, $60 for the DirecTV, but seriously I only watch about maybe $15 worth really.

Teddy · Post by **Teddy** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:31 pm

if you count tv shows from another country(anime) i watch about about an hour or 2 every other day

Clayman · Post by **Clayman** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 8:49 pm

The TV is on most of the time in the house, so I can't help but hearing/getting glimpses of some of it everytime I walk through that section of the house or am fixing dinner, but the time where I sit down to watch something generally involves the news or a few minutes of Jay Leno every now and then, so less than an hour a week probably. I used to watch it almost 24/7 when I was younger until I was about 9 or so, then I found better things to do with my time.

sheepdog · Post by **sheepdog** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 9:36 pm

I don't watch any "free to air." I watch quite a bit of cable movie stuff. Tonight I am going to watch The Punisher on movies on demand.

kurupt · Post by **kurupt** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 11:23 pm

sporting events and espn. about an hour a day

SolidAir · Post by **SolidAir** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 11:25 pm

only tv i watch is in the morning when i have my breakfast and it's always cnn headline news. I just dont have time to watch tv with school and work.

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 12:58 am

Ok I admit it, I watch some History Channel, Learning Channel, and Discovery Channel. That's about it ... I get my news off the internet.

Vertigo · Post by **Vertigo** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 8:24 am

Top Gun wrote:Jeez, how can some of you not watch any TV? I watch at least 2 hours a day. Right now, I'm watching Lost, South Park, Drawn Together, ER, Star Trek: Enterprise, and the Simpsons once a week. Plus, there's football every Sunday/Monday night, as well as the odd good movie. It boggles the mind when people say there's nothing good on TV; if you cut through all of the reality show/cheesy sitcom crap, there are some really great shows on.

Some people just download their favorite shows

I know i do ...

As for the rest, i glance at a tv maybe 20 mins a week or something... console gaming i do on my lcds.

roid · Post by **roid** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 8:38 am

yeah i dunno if i'd count downloaded anime as "TV"

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 3:38 pm

I havnt watched anything on Over-The-Air network TV, with the exception of select sporting events, in years. The only program I do watch that might be considered over-the-air, Star Trek Enterprise, I download off the internet so I can view it in full commercial-free HD Glory.

Destiny777 · Post by **Destiny777** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 11:44 pm

... jack van impe presents ...

Hey, I watch that too!

Television is on for background noise. TV is on for extended hours every day but I rarely watch much of anything however.

Spend too many hours at the computer for work and play each week.

Phoenix Red · Post by **Phoenix Red** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 11:53 pm

I used to watch enterprise. Now I sometimes turn it on when I've got insomnia and I don't feel like talking to anyone on the intarweb. < 1 hour per week

Samuel Dravis · Post by **Samuel Dravis** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 1:19 am

I don't watch TV that much, just sometimes the news. I have a radeon with a TV tuner on it, but the card usually gets used for more important endeavors (read: games).

Gooberman · Post by **Gooberman** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 2:08 am

I usually have the news on each morning when I am getting ready. Sometimes I have it on when I am on the cpu. But as far as sitting down and watching a show, under an hour a month. I just dont have the attention span for tv.

Inari · Post by **Inari** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 3:41 am

I hate watching TV quite a bit. I don't have too much time for it other than the occasional news. Mostly, I'm on the internet doing stuff on there when I'm not either at school, doing homework, or am outside.

kurupt · Post by **kurupt** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 5:15 am

you need to fix that attention span. always getting up to play halo 2 when we're supposed to be cuddling. bastard.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 12:41 pm

Under two hours a day. I don't watch alot of TV shows. Most of what I watch I watch through my computer.

btw, fixed your poll Mobi.

Gooberman · Post by **Gooberman** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 1:14 pm

kurupt wrote:you need to fix that attention span. always getting up to play halo 2 when we're supposed to be cuddling. bastard.

aw, someone is a little jelouse that I made lvl 10 this morning. Understand that I can't be associated with you until you catch up. I just don't need the lvl 9 baggage.

SolidAir · Post by **SolidAir** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 7:04 pm

Not to be mean or anything, but the poll is worded wrong.

The last option, under 5 hours, still applies to me. I could have selected that option truthfully if I only watch 1 minute of TV a day.

Should have used over than under...

Unix · Post by **Unix** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 9:30 pm

Jeez, you're so mean.

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 10:18 pm

T....V....??? whazzat?

Liquid Fire · Post by **Liquid Fire** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 10:42 pm

Watching grass grow > TV

Except, of course, for the simpsons

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