Board 8 > Do you watch TV?

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We're talking networks, cable or satellite to be clear.

Kind of curious where we're at on this now. When I was a kid I couldn't imagine living without TV but now that we're in an age where most shows worth watching are being locked behind streaming services anyway, the actual television portion of owning a TV is feeling less and less significant IMO.
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Cable still is used where I live, so yes I do. Commercials and all.
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I don't have cable, so I just stream everything through my PS4 or my computer.
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Not anymore

Getting my own Netflix account when I go back to Qatar because I feel bad borrowing my old housemate's

Been watching a bit at home, and it's nice as a central social thing for the family when we're eating dinner or later in the evening, but I don't feel like I'm missing very much not having it. I identify the shows I want to watch and watch them through whatever means at times that suit me.

I do miss it for sports, because TV is far, far more reliable than internet streaming when it comes to watching football. But that's all.
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Outside of like the local/world news, I rarely watch anything live (I only have a digital antenna). Usually just downloading and streaming files from the computer to the TV or Netflix.
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I watch a bit. I'll watch a bit of the news (local stuff, national just angries the blood), and there's some digital stations that play old things. Also PBS, there are some things worth watching there.

Streaming only

I probably watch about as much TV as I did as a kid, really. It's just on the computer instead. The raw time I spent watching was higher as a kid, but I watch way more stuff now. 2x speed, no ads, and of course picking exactly what I want to watch helps a lot.
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Nope

Right now is the first time I've watched scripted TV with commercials since... Whenever the Better Call Saul season 3 finale was.

So technically yes, but almost never.
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I cancelled it a long time ago and I honestly kind of missed it. It's awesome having everything you want at your fingertips with Netflix or Crunchyroll or whatever, but I always feel like I need to pay attention and watch things in order when I do that stuff, and sometimes that's just not really what I want. I like just channel surfing and finding something cool and watching that. Sometimes it's an out of order episode of Friends or Big Bang or Pawn Stars or some shit that I've seen before but it's all that I want.

I especially like this when I'm reading or playing on my 3DS or something. I like to have something I'm only half paying attention to on, and I would NEVER do that with something I specifically chose to watch on Netflix. If I've chosen to watch a show in order, then I gotta pay attention or I'll be annoyed for missing stuff. With channel surfing, there's no guilt!

One of the people I live with needs his sports channels so we got cable back for that, and I'm glad to have it. I'd miss it if I didn't have it. I don't use it on a daily basis, but I like having it when I want it.

Is it worth the price just for that? I dunno. If sports guy moved out, I can't say for sure if we'd keep it going.

I'm curious to see what happens when the inevitable day comes where channels as we know it no longer exist. Will everything be on demand netflix style? Will random queue channels become a thing? Will channel surfing completely become a thing of the past? Who knows.
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I watch sports and nothing else.
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I watch sports and some news, but in the spirit of the question (or at least the way I think you mean it to be perceived), gotta answer no. I only weekly show I follow is Better Call Saul, and that gets downloaded.
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I subscribe to PSVue, HBO, Amazon Prime, and Crunchyroll. My friends and family have Netflix, Hulu, and Showtime that I use and they in turn use my accounts.

I only really have PSVue for Sports.
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Just sports
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Cut cable about 2 years ago but I got PS Vue for a while but I recently dropped that after their second price increase and reduction of channels

The only thing I watched was Raw and Smackdown anyway and there's other ways to watch those online
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I don't count sports as tv shows so no I guess
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Yes but a lot less than I used to.

Everything else is usually streamed.
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Just Survivor.
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not plugged a TV in in over ten years. started torrenting in 2007 and can't imagine watching things on a schedule determined by someone else anymore.
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Only to stream sports
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Steiner posted...

not plugged a TV in in over ten years. started torrenting in 2007 and can't imagine watching things on a schedule determined by someone else anymore.

Schedules give me something to look forward to. I find that once I get what I want exactly when I want it I suddenly find it less appealing.

Uglyface2 posted...

Steiner posted...

not plugged a TV in in over ten years. started torrenting in 2007 and can't imagine watching things on a schedule determined by someone else anymore.

Schedules give me something to look forward to. I find that once I get what I want exactly when I want it I suddenly find it less appealing.

Yeah

There's a lot to be said for GoT doing this for instance. The anticipation helps
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