How many hours do you spend watching TV?

[CptStern]

self-explanatory ...with the amount of crappy reality shows, lackluster sitcoms and CSI-inspired shows dominating the networks these days I'm lucky if I get in more than 4 hours a week ..and usually it's either Law and order or a documentary

so how much tv do you watch, and has your internet use gone up while your tv viewing has gone down?

 

[Ames]

My tv watching has definately gone down. I only watch good shows like 24, The Simpsons, or Arrested Developement.

At most 3 hours a day normally. But my average is probably 1 to 2 hours a day.

 

[ComradeBadger]

Yep, internet use has gone up while TV watching has gone down.. I just watch the Simpsons now

Haven't got Sky though..

 

[CptStern]

oh ya I forgot simpsons ..watch that religiously

 

[Harryz]

Used to watch The Simpsons religously, but it seems to have lost its charm. I only watch TV when I'm about to go to sleep or a rented/bought movie. I regret getting a TV in my room, since I've stopped reading books for a couple of months - have to start reading again. I watch about 20 hours per week. Shows such as Third Rock from the Sun, South Park, Have I got News for you, Globe Trekkers D) and documentaries.

 

[JohnF]

Simpsons
Family Guy
Daily Show
South Park
Seinfeld
ESPN
News

Screw reality shows

 

[Baal]

I always have my TV on because I have a TV on my desk along with my two monitors...but I'm not always really paying attention to it.

 

[Ennui]

I don't watch much TV, maybe a comedy central movie every once in a while, stand up, and any show that catches my eye. Generally not more than 3-4 hours a week excluding movies or if I happen to be extremely bored.

TV sucks, mostly.

 

[johnnypoopoopant]

i rarely watch tv, maybe 1 hour a week or less...if i do watch tv it is something like the food channel

 

[Kazuki_Fuse]

I'd say I watch t.v for 4-5 hours a week. I knew a guyu that watched t.v for 8+ plus a day.

 

[xLostx]

With school and work I don't get to watch much tv any more and I don't miss it at all. I'll watch Futurama and Family Guy on tv and movies on the dish but that's about it

 

[CrazyHarij]

Not that much, except to watch shows like Family Guy, the Simpsons, Everybody Loves Raymond and when a good movie's on.

 

[WySiWyG]

Yep, internet use has gone up while TV watching has gone down..

Same. I still have it on in the background though.. Even though its behind me and I cant see it.

 

[oberGeist]

I don't watch tv too often. everything I need is in the net - news, music, fun, games, movies.
only when I'm at my parents' do I watch news updates or sport events.
tv is mosly crap and boring, excluding cartoon network and discovery

 

[Dalamari]

I take maybe 1 or 2 hours on the weekends, normally I just leave Comedy Central on while I play and turn around to it whenever I have some downtime in CS:S or EverQuest II

 

[PoeticRocker]

I watch a few shows:

-Simpsons (reruns never get old!)
-Futurama (this show shouldnt of ended)
-House (guy from black adder is has to be good!)
-American Idol (only the auditions = funniest crap ive ever seen)
-Surreal life (emotionally distressed celebrities = gold)
-I love the 90s (ah horrible memories...)

Then i watch 80s shows on dvd:

-Wiseguy (good mafia undercover show)
-Tour of Duty (top-rate vietnam war drama)

 

[A True Canadian]

Since moving into residence at University, I find myself only watching TV on the weekends at home (I'm fortunate enough to be within 90min driving distance).

The Friday night stuff
EP and Reviews on the Run on Saturday
Simpsons, King of the Hill, Ebert and Roeper, etc. on Sunday

I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY miss NHL Hockey. If that came back, then my TV watching would nearly triple per week.

 

[Razor]

I don't watch television.

 

[Romel]

TV to me is kinda boring unless i get satelite TV,with many channels to watch

 

[Asuka]

I rarely watch tv but i watch a crap load of movies. If im not playing games im watching movies.

 

[Sui]

I uesd to watch TV for about 2-3 hours every day (loads on weekends), but then i got the internet. Nothing was ever the same. Now I barely turn the TV on...

 

[CptStern]

some cable programs are good such as Six Feet under

 

[Steve]

I watch a little CNN at 6 in the mornin' before I go to work...not much else.

 

[sabre0001]

i watch VERY few shows on TV...but i play a lot of computer now...must really start playin guitar more and at least the weather is comin back for SPORTS!!! Happy now...

 

[A True Canadian]

...at least the weather is comin back for SPORTS!!! Happy now...

You mean the wussy sports?

 

[Raziaar]

I pretty much watch TV as often as I use the computer. If my computer is on, my TV is on. I don't always focus on it, but its usually always on when i'm on my computer(I can view monitor and TV with just a slight turn of my head).

I simply consider it the most effective use of my time. Hell, as long as i'm doing crap on the computer, might as well do the TV stuff too, so I don't have to waste other parts of my day with it. lol.

 

[Ennui]

some cable programs are good such as Six Feet under

Heh, I love that show.

 

[The Dark Elf]

self-explanatory ...with the amount of crappy reality shows, lackluster sitcoms and CSI-inspired shows dominating the networks these days I'm lucky if I get in more than 4 hours a week ..and usually it's either Law and order or a documentary

so how much tv do you watch, and has your internet use gone up while your tv viewing has gone down?

Thinking about it, I don't actually watch TV much atall. There's a few programs I will watch (battlestar galactica) and sometimes I'll just veg out and watch a few films, but generally if the TV is on its really just for background noise, which I hear a lot of people do. Actually paying attention to it I don't do very often. Heh right now its not even turned on.

When I first started having problems with sleep though, a doctor at the time told me if I leave it on a timer in the background it can help sleep because it fixes your mind on a single thing, distracts you or something from thinking too much so your mind isn't as active and you can fall asleep eaiser. Didn't work at the time cause it was a different reason for my sleep problems, but now those are pretty much sorted out it does seem to work.

err yeah whatever lol, I voted for 5 hours or less

As for internet use. Hmm, well I do use it more since getting cable. But really now its just mostly browsing the odd sight, emails, chatting n stuff, I've noticed now im not a mod I'm on the net far less, usually just in spurts and off doing other things for an hour or so, depends on my mood. I'm not so much addicted to the net, more addicted to needing to know its there if and when I need it, kinda the same way someone would miss not having hot water on tap or something heh.

 

[Raziaar]

Thinking about it, I don't actually watch TV much atall. There's a few programs I will watch (battlestar galactica) and sometimes I'll just veg out and watch a few films, but generally if the TV is on its really just for background noise, which I hear a lot of people do. Actually paying attention to it I don't do very often. Heh right now its not even turned on.

When I first started having problems with sleep though, a doctor at the time told me if I leave it on a timer in the background it can help sleep because it fixes your mind on a single thing, distracts you or something from thinking too much so your mind isn't as active and you can fall asleep eaiser. Didn't work at the time cause it was a different reason for my sleep problems, but now those are pretty much sorted out it does seem to work.

err yeah whatever lol, I voted for 5 hours or less

Best way for me to fall asleep, is if I hear a loud, sudden and unexpected noise. Such as a train whistle, or the house shifting and the wall creaking loudly. I don't know why, but for some reason I buckle down and fall to sleep only minutes after hearing something unexpected like that.

Thinking of doing a self study, where I can take a timing device that will emit a loud click once a certain amount of time passes. i'd set it... forget about it, and then the click would happen and then i'd fall asleep. Question is, what sort of item could do this without creating excessive noise? I just want a loud, single click(loud is relative).

 

[The Dark Elf]

Best way for me to fall asleep, is if I hear a loud, sudden and unexpected noise. Such as a train whistle, or the house shifting and the wall creaking loudly. I don't know why, but for some reason I buckle down and fall to sleep only minutes after hearing something unexpected like that.

Thinking of doing a self study, where I can take a timing device that will emit a loud click once a certain amount of time passes. i'd set it... forget about it, and then the click would happen and then i'd fall asleep. Question is, what sort of item could do this without creating excessive noise? I just want a loud, single click(loud is relative).

you could use your computer to do it, setup something as a timer, mIRC or a regular macro or script or just a very long silence at the start of an audio file of some click.

 

[Raziaar]

you could use your computer to do it, setup something as a timer, mIRC or a regular macro or script or just a very long silence at the start of an audio file of some click.

Yeah, but problem is... I don't like keeping my computer on overnight. I always shut it down when I go to bed, unless i'm downloading something big overnight(rarely)

 

[The Dark Elf]

Yeah, but problem is... I don't like keeping my computer on overnight. I always shut it down when I go to bed, unless i'm downloading something big overnight(rarely)

set it up to make a click noise when it shuts down and a timer to shut it down after you've gone to bed?

 

[Icarusintel]

TV, for the most part, is absolute shite, even with all those channels

 

[KoreBolteR]

less than 5 hours a week, and 1 or 2 hours is dedicated to 24

yeh i also wanted to ask you all.. "do you think tv and pc's will be combined in the future?"

 

[The Dark Elf]

yeh i also wanted to ask you all.. "do you think tv and pc's will be combined in the future?"

I hope not, but it'll probably happen thanks to the armchair generation. So PC's will end up being like the living room TV, back to arguing with others over what they'll watch or play and porn will be really out of the question until they develop terminals for bedrooms n such but then kids will still get stopped from doing lots.. hmm wait, thats actually a good idea, no more kids on the net!

 

[Burn]

None, I dont watch tv, theres never ANYTHING good on.

 

[The Mullinator]

Maybe an hour at the absolute most a week.

 

[B-MAn]

i watch less than 5 hours a week mainly because i'm on the pc more

 

[Bio]

I only watch the simpsons.