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By: treniece

treniece — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:55:55 +0000

I watch T.V everyday. I love to watch u.s.a because I love me some law and order. I being having cable for the past year and I don’ have a problem. I switch through cannels when commericals come on.

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By: R. C. Kelly

R. C. Kelly — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:13:29 +0000

I have not watched TV or subscribed to a newspaper for the past thirty years, or so, and I know of no compelling reason to change that.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:51:37 +0000

There just isn’t time to sit down and watch shows when they are being broadcast, so I watch online or wait for DVD release. There are some really excellent shows on and it’s perfect for me to watch them when I get some time. I don’t agree with networks canceling shows before they get a chance to find their place (Terminator TSCC, Jericho, Pushing Daisies, Eli Stone, The Unusuals…) It’s discouraging. Just when you really get interested, it’s gone. Anyway, to answer Granny Knitter, I watch on a computer screen because I an’t sit with feet up and watch; still have kids, husband, house, job. TV watching/entertainment in general have to be fit into what little time I have. It’s a perfect way to unwind, though, regardless of how big/little the screen is.

By: Granny Knitter

Granny Knitter — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:57:54 +0000

I have the NY Times delivered M-F and the useless local paper,The Arizona Republic, on Sunday strictly for the coupons, ads and comics. This is supplemented with news on the internet as I never watch the regular news shows on TV. Everything I do watch is via Tivo so I can watch what I want, when I want, ad free. 99% of what I watch is on cable TV (via satellite)and most of that is documentaries or old movies. For new movies, I borrow them from the library. I do watch a couple of regular shows on ABC but they dropped 3 of the 5 I did watch including the best one, Boston Legal. Why would anyone want to watch TV on a computer screen when you can watch on a much larger screen with your feet up on the coffee table? I watch about 3 hrs. of TV a day and usually because I just feel like knitting and it occupies my mind at the same time.

By: Franzeska

Franzeska — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:21:03 +0000

I almost never watch anything live. It’s not like I’m desperate to fast forward through the commercials either; I just don’t get home and prepare/order/hunt through the fridge for dinner in time to be reliably sitting in front of the tv by eight o’clock.

Mostly, I use the DVR that comes with my cable service. Netflix’ instant features are nice, but they don’t have a great selection yet, and their rewind/fast forward features aren’t very good. Hulu and networks’ own sites aren’t bad, but they tend to have technical problems or play the very same ad twice a commercial break in every single online episode they have (not cool, networks!).

I’m addicted to DVD sets. Watching week to week just can’t compare with cramming 5 seasons of some crime drama into a month.

TV is escapism and entertainment: I need it on my schedule, not some network’s.

By: mike rice

mike rice — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:43:07 +0000

I used to own a small town cable company until 1990. I dropped cable in 1993 and watched an abysmal rabbit ears for years. I’ve been watching crystal clear converted digital TV from those rabbit ears now for over a year. Cable and satellite too is worse now than it was when there were only 22 channels. The Net Owners tried to expand with channels that were little more than a single program blown up into a 168 hour a week cable channel. Sometimes I’ll watch old episodes of What’s My Line in a tavern while having a nightcap. The Networks had not recovered from the writers strike when the financial crisis arrived. ABC runs an infomercial at 7 p.m. on Saturday night. The Nets and the local stations are headed toward the bottom. But I haven’t really cared for them since they started shooting sitcoms on tape during Norman Lear’s heyday in the seventies.

Mostly, I never watch in real time. I tape everything, mostly news, but some PBS like Little Dorritt. Tape all three networks newscasts each night, the Sunday Shows, McLauglin. Yes, on six retro vhs recorders. The DVD recorders are junk designed to wear out quickly and deliver second rate video. The only way to get a good video is to burn it. The Industry discovered consumers didn’t really want to record on VHS, they just watched movies on VHS, so the movie folks are attempting to eliminate recording altogether and vend movies directly to screen from one’s modem. This is killing the DVD market and fast, while producing no particular rush to watch new films in real time online.

I have a netflix subscription and have looked at two of their movies online. I discovered you could tape online Netflix if you like. I download new films still in theaters which are uploaded by other people to Web platforms for downloading. I also see about 250 theater movies a year. I
frequent libraries looking for old films on CD, which I make copies of at home. I used to get guys from email groups who would pick up a pirate video on a street corner in a major city and send it to you for a price. But I find myself not doing that recently. Films haven’t been that interesting. I frequent RedBox vending machines. I’ve noted that Redbox and Netflix have both stocked so few copies of Kate Winslet’s Oscar-Winning performance in the Reader- if any at Redbox- that it is difficult to acquire a copy of without buying one or going to an old line video store like Gallery or Blockbuster to rent one.

I’ve got so much to look at I don’t get around to seeing it all, inevitably.

By: michael

michael — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:13:50 +0000

We’re getting rid of cable after downgrading to the basic package (nice to have PBS). Right now everything we watch is via Netflix (streaming shows with the Roku Player and movies), Boxee (for BBC, NYT, CNN, and other sources) and sometimes Hulu (Office, 30 Rock, American Gothic).

Going forward we have a dedicated Mac Mini ready to go with Boxee. I just need to find the time to hook it up to the TV. At that point I’ll probably see the Roku since Netflix works with Boxee.

For news, we get 80% from the web but have a weekend newspaper subscription. I’m rarely offline from a personal and work perspective.

From a demographics perspective, my wife and I, with one child, are in the 25-30 range in NYC.

Good luck tracking all that in the general populace…

By: Rocker

Rocker — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:18:39 +0000

I don’t buy a newspaper or watch tv anymore.I get my news from my blackberry and my tv from youtube

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:50:15 +0000

I was avoiding getting cable TV for a couple of years – seemed like there was plenty to watch between broadcast and my neighbor’s wifi connection, and about a year ago I was juuuust about to break and get cable. Before doing so, I got a government coupon for a digital TV converter and my number of broadcast channels quadrupled! With their extra channels, my local stations provided 24 hr sports and weather stations and the signal, which was the reason I was about to budge, seems just as good as cable! So now if I want to catch a Law & Order episode or Letterman, it comes in crystal clear. A lot of my viewing is online and over DVR, though, but always TV content. I watched the office this season on Hulu during lunch breaks and am catching up on Lost, from season 1, through DVDs. Maybe I’ll catch up in time to watch in real-time next season. Anyway, that’s how I watch.