How much TV do you watch?
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I don't really track my hours, but I also don't just sit & watch. Usually, I multitask. For instance, I'll frequently have the tube on while I'm cooking or cleaning.
Bizarrely, I also often watch shows while pracicing guitar. I put my headphones on and turn on the TV's subtitles. This led to a fascinating discovery: not including outright errors, I'm finding that some shows have altered scripts for the show's dialog. Sometimes it's for efficiency, but sometimes, the dialog is VERY different. Occasionally, you even get subtitled dialog that is entirely absent from the regular story, like certain asides and interjections.
Bizarrely, I also often watch shows while pracicing guitar. I put my headphones on and turn on the TV's subtitles. This led to a fascinating discovery: not including outright errors, I'm finding that some shows have altered scripts for the show's dialog. Sometimes it's for efficiency, but sometimes, the dialog is VERY different. Occasionally, you even get subtitled dialog that is entirely absent from the regular story, like certain asides and interjections.
Arkhandus
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I watch.....lessee......3 to 8 hours of TV each day, though only an hour or two on weekends. However, at least half the time that I watch TV is just listening while I eat my meals, work on the laptop, take care of chores around the house, or play with the dog. Most days I only watch or listen to around 3 hours of TV. I listen to some TV news programs in the afternoon, followed or preceded by watching some recorded shows from the previous day. Generally shows on Discovery, Science, History, or SyFy (oh how I despise the name change and its implications.....), aside from watching The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Futurama on Comedy Central, and occasionally The Simpsons on Fox when I notice a new episode. And I watch Burn Notice, Deadliest Warrior, and occasionally some other program on other networks. And I've watched Supernatural for the past few seasons, though I largely missed the first 2 seasons or so.
Of course, this is just because I'm unemployed; I only watched maybe an hour of TV each day when I was employed or attending college.
Of course, this is just because I'm unemployed; I only watched maybe an hour of TV each day when I was employed or attending college.
Jan van Leyden
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1-2 hours per week here. Maybe ten sessions of the old German crime series "Tatort" per year, every now and then a movie, and sometimes big sporting events.
The last TV series we were following was Lost, which stopped a year ago. GoT will be aired on a pay TV channel so I guess I'll buy a DVD set instead.
As a child/junior my family was watching TV each and every evening. When I moved out I took a TV set with me, but didn't replace it when it broke. The next 15 years was without any TV at all. After we moved to our house we bought a new set, and I tried to catch up on a lot of movies I had missed. A year later I had seen almost all movies broadcasted here and settled into my current habit.
The last TV series we were following was Lost, which stopped a year ago. GoT will be aired on a pay TV channel so I guess I'll buy a DVD set instead.
As a child/junior my family was watching TV each and every evening. When I moved out I took a TV set with me, but didn't replace it when it broke. The next 15 years was without any TV at all. After we moved to our house we bought a new set, and I tried to catch up on a lot of movies I had missed. A year later I had seen almost all movies broadcasted here and settled into my current habit.
I'm in the watch a lot of tv camp. Despite the fact that I work almost every day.
The DVR makes watching more efficient, but as long as there are interesting shows airing, it keeps filling.
Generally, we watch shows in the evening while I work on the couch.
And weekends we catch up on shows, when we're not doing anything else.
I don't watch the news or sports or reality tv or contest shows.
Right now, the list of aring stuff I watch is:
burn notice, eureka, true blood, in plain sight, falling skies, alphas
I never watch a show live. I'd cut cable, but getting a DVR without cable adds complexity. Plus, the factor of most of the stuff I watch is NOT on broadcast.
And for the most part we want to see the shows when they come out. Especially since we're effectively caught up. That' be like NOT watching TV for a year, just so I could get the DVDs and then watch it in 2 weeks, and not have any more TV for another year.
Folks mention watching shows on DVD, and listing the DVDs they watch. I watched all those when they came out. So while they are great shows, when yer caught up, the only solution is to feed from the source, which is TV.*
*not counting some people's solution which is to not watch TV
The DVR makes watching more efficient, but as long as there are interesting shows airing, it keeps filling.
Generally, we watch shows in the evening while I work on the couch.
And weekends we catch up on shows, when we're not doing anything else.
I don't watch the news or sports or reality tv or contest shows.
Right now, the list of aring stuff I watch is:
burn notice, eureka, true blood, in plain sight, falling skies, alphas
I never watch a show live. I'd cut cable, but getting a DVR without cable adds complexity. Plus, the factor of most of the stuff I watch is NOT on broadcast.
And for the most part we want to see the shows when they come out. Especially since we're effectively caught up. That' be like NOT watching TV for a year, just so I could get the DVDs and then watch it in 2 weeks, and not have any more TV for another year.
Folks mention watching shows on DVD, and listing the DVDs they watch. I watched all those when they came out. So while they are great shows, when yer caught up, the only solution is to feed from the source, which is TV.*
*not counting some people's solution which is to not watch TV
I watch far too much. Easily a few hours pet day. If you could leaving the television on for background noise while doing chores or playing with the kids, even more.
I try to be efficient and use the DVR to skip commercials, but still, there's a lot of stuff that catches my eye.
I try to be efficient and use the DVR to skip commercials, but still, there's a lot of stuff that catches my eye.
I'm not really sure; there's 5-10 shows in my DVR queue (usually a few new shows every season that do not survive or I give up on after noticing five episodes have been recorded without being watched) so in regular TV season if they're all new in a week I'll get around to watching them eventually (other than news -- and that only when something is breaking, live sports, and Sportscenter when I'm eating, I watch very little non-DVR'd TV). Have been going through seasons of various stuff this summer on Netflix streaming (which I finally got around to getting).
I'll usually watch a few football games every week during football season, and any Syracuse game that's nationally broadcast and happens while I'm not working during basketball season (which isn't many, due to that pesky three hour time difference between San Diego and most of the Big East).
I'll usually watch a few football games every week during football season, and any Syracuse game that's nationally broadcast and happens while I'm not working during basketball season (which isn't many, due to that pesky three hour time difference between San Diego and most of the Big East).
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