Does anyone else NOT watch TV (except for favorite shows)?

[lilmac]

I am one of these guys

 

 

Almost a year ago I simply stopped watching TV.  It wasn't for ideological, etc reasons.  

 

I just found that I can use various online services (Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, IMDB, etc) to watch my favorite shows and sports.  No need to pay for a bundle.  I just have Internet from my cable provider and I turn on the big screen when I want to play PS3.   My home is free from background noise and I can't do it justice how great it is to watch commercial free TV.  

 

 

Anyone else?  

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Same here. I only watch shows on Netflix or July now.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

I only use my TV for the PS3 now!

[ChD]

I also stopped watching TV a long time ago. I used to watch Friends there, but I also found that you can do it online so I simply said screw it and stopped. I only watch football (or soccer... *roll eyes*) games on TV ... and that only UCL or World Cup/Euro Cup

[Kevin Bacon]

Streaming services are great and all but they aren't foolproof. Can't watch live, many simply aren't available, etc.

[peludo]

TV in my country is just shit. I stopped to watch it a long time ago.

[ladyevenstar22]

i watch tv and at same time i dont 

i watch the french cable canal + satellite mostly for sports , political talk shows , investigative shows , the news 

we used to have american cable until about 5 yrs ago ,cried like a baby when we gave it up because two cables bills were too much on the budget 

but kids were still very small and it was in their best interest to hear only french at first and not pick up english too soon as it causes pb with their learning , its a specific problem to my island bilingualism , left to our own devices we'd screw french 99% of the time 

 

so at the time it really felt like i gave up on tv as i really only watch the french one for sports , i've since adapted to it lol

but luckily at same time i got my laptop and discovered the joys of watching tv online without ads 

i'm positive i can't go back to before being beholded to a specific time and specific day and unlike americans no DVR 

 

that's how i ended up giving the shaft to ugly betty because it was playing at same time as smallville on thursdays and i ended up watching UB years after it ended 

 

so yeah all my fav shows i watch online since to me its like i don't have tv , i don't care to watch americans shows in french , i dislike dubbing in any language(things get more often than not lost in translation.

I don't mind subtitles but would rather do without them 

[DeeCee]

Few, for a second there I thought you'd stopped watch TV in any form.

[Wadey Wilsoney]

Through sheer impatience I find myself turning to the web to get the latest episodes.For example Big Bang Theory is only halfway through season 6 on TV over here, but a certain non-torrent site allows me to see the latest episode a day after it premiered in the US.Problem is our bandwith is too cruddy to watch it as it's streaming so I have to use a flv downloader and save the episode to disk.Which isn't too bad, I suppose

[DeeCee]

It's got much better here with some shows on Foxtel with 2-3 hours of their west coast broadcast.

 

I generally only watch live sport on TV.  If a show is on here within 36 hours of it's US broadcast I'll watch it on TV here.  If it's a channel with adds I'll delay watching it by 20 minutes and fast forward through the adds.

[AniNate]

Mostly I just watch sports and other certain events I enjoy more in a communal environment. 

Edited October 14, 2013 by tribefan695

[vc2002]

Stopped watching TV long time ago. Stopped following any TV series very long time ago.

 

Now I watch TV mostly for sports.

[Kevin Bacon]

Stopped watching TV long time ago. Stopped following any TV series very long time ago.

 

Now I watch TV mostly for sports.

That's too bad. You quit just before the best one!

[CheshireMoon]

I still watch tv only because my internet is too slow and I have to pay alot to run it. So I only tune in on the television exactly the time my show is on. Downfall is that I am always behind in my series

[cheesypoofs]

All I watch (regularly) on TV is football, How I Met Your Mother, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and ESPN First Take.

[Rudolf]

I used to have the TV running 8 hours aday, mostling without really paying attention. Then about 5 years ago I stopped. Now I only watch sports or other live content. In Austria the government owned TV is addfree during the shows. The commercial stations have so much adds that you always end up switching channels.

I think the TV channels have to change their busines modell to survive longterm.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

I stopped watching TV about 7 years ago. there are almost all shit contents on TV.

Edited October 17, 2013 by firedeep

[MagnetMan]

I'm almost out of shows to watch.  Breaking Bad and Dexter are gone.  So now it's just GOT, Walking Dead and hockey.  I haven't finished the most recent episode of Agents of Shield... and I'm not sure I'm going to.

[tawasal]

Now on TV I only watch football (soccer) matches. For tv shows I watch them online on On-Demand websites. 

[Michael Gary Scott]

I stopped watching TV about 7 years ago. there are almost all shit contents on TV.

We are living in the golden age of tv. The quality is way better than movies currently.