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Only watch news and sport live. Everything else is either recorded or streamed when I have the time.
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A general thread on viewing habits. Does anyone have the same problem as me? In that I really like Netflix, catch up etc and the idea of 'creating your own schedule' but I am always torn on what to watch of an evening and by the time I've made a decision on what I feel like watching, it's time to go to bed
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I've still got the same routine as I've had for decades
I buy the Radio Times .........the printed version, even though I need a magnifying glass nowadays to read it Every night before I go to bed I make my To Do list for the next day which includes work things, chores, shopping, meals to make and looking at the RT to see what I want to mark up for watching the next day ! I have used the Catch Up on Virgin Cable but I don't really understand all the other things like Amazon and Netflix and Youview and firesticks |
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Not really, I buy Radio Times but, often use catch up to see programmes I've missed!
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Much the same here. Though I tend to record more things than I'll ever have time to watch!
The only thing I would ever watch live is the news. |
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We record everything we want to watch on Sky Q and create our own schedule and time shift everything. I often just record programmes I might like and am sometimes pleasantly surprised other times disappointed so I just delete the latter. Recording is handy when the phone rings or we get a visitor we can even watch it hours later where we left off. I would hate to be limited to a TV schedule.
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Even the news and football I often delay the start by 15 mins so the ads and half time can be sped through.
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I've not even had my TV on this week, not to watch a film or play a game or anything. I'm always online.
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Well, I did last night starting with Pointless and ending with the NFL Show, Six and a bit hours of TV in a linear progression interrupted only by the arrival of a pizza and a couple of visits to the little boy's room. Unbelievably relaxing having to do nothing but change channels a couple of times! No agonising over what to watch, what device to use, etc. Bloody marvellous!
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Very rarely watch anything in real time any more.
Much prefer choosing what I want to watch when I want to watch it. |
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There's a simple solution to ads on the News.
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I remember reading something a while back by some 'expert' or other saying it's perfectly feasible that in a decade or so tv 'schedules' as we know them might be a thing of the past as more and more watch when it suits them not when the first broadcast is shown.
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How will that work for news, sport and other live events?
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Only watch BBC dramas, documentaries and the news at time of broadcast; everything else via PVR or internet.
Got NowTV, but no Netflix or Prime. |
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This will be the first time in over forty years that we haven't bought the Christmas Radio Times. We both tend to look through the EPG and then set what we want to record. If the recorded programme is BBC and it doesn't clash with anything else, we may watch it live due to there being no adverts.
Any programmes that contains ads we record then press the PVRs skip button when the ads come on. We do have Netflix but only use it occasionally as there's not much we tend to like, certainly not all the American tat. TBH we struggle in finding the time to watch all the programmes we record from the terrestrial broadcasters. |
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Any programmes that contains ads we record then press the PVRs skip button when the ads come on. We do have Netflix but only use it occasionally as there's not much we tend to like, certainly not all the American tat.
![]() I subscribed to Netflix purely to watch all of Breaking Bad (certainly not "tat"!). Now I am intermittently catching up on season 2 of Better Call Saul. For similar reasons to getting Netflix, I went back to Sky so I could watch Game of Thrones. During the time I was watching that from the start, I cancelled my Netflix subscription as I wasn't using it at all. |
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Christmas Radio Times is an absolute must, although its slightly more thinking about things to record or plan to watch on catch up these days. Terrestrial tv is still central to me though, and still watch some programmes when they are transmitted-tends to be live stuff like Strictly and sport, plus big drama, news or anything else that feels like an event.
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I've been flicking forward through the EPG, desperately trying to find something worth watching over Christmas. I've already saved a few films and have one or two others lined up, but it's a pretty grim prospect.
On the few occasions I've looked at Netflix, I've never seen anything I'd watch, even if it was free. |
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No schedule. I seldom watch television.
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How will that work for news, sport and other live events?
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|As I still use TV's from the last century, and only have basic freeview box's with no record, pause or catch-up abilities etc, I still do it the old-fashioned way and look through the tv paper. Still the best way to find out everything that's on. It is a bit time-consuming though, so I can't always be bothered to read it and sometimes I just watch something on YouTube of an evening instead. So busy reading and posting on here that I often don't have time anyway!
![]() I usually just look at the five main channels and usually there's enough I want to see from 7/8-10pm, sometimes there's too much and I have to do some tough decision-making Most of the other freeview channels just have endless repeats that were originally aired on BBC, ITV, Channel 5 etc.I rarely watch TV in an afternoon unless they'res a good film I want to watch. |
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Yet a post count of 40,000+ and still posting on a dedicated TV forum? Most odd.
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I remember reading something a while back by some 'expert' or other saying it's perfectly feasible that in a decade or so tv 'schedules' as we know them might be a thing of the past as more and more watch when it suits them not when the first broadcast is shown.
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I do follow schedule. I have a TV guide app on my iPad.
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|As I still use TV's from the last century, and only have basic freeview box's with no record, pause or catch-up abilities etc, I still do it the old-fashioned way and look through the tv paper. Still the best way to find out everything that's on. It is a bit time-consuming though, so I can't always be bothered to read it and sometimes I just watch something on YouTube of an evening instead. So busy reading and posting on here that I often don't have time anyway!
![]() I usually just look at the five main channels and usually there's enough I want to see from 7/8-10pm, sometimes there's too much and I have to do some tough decision-making Most of the other freeview channels just have endless repeats that were originally aired on BBC, ITV, Channel 5 etc.I rarely watch TV in an afternoon unless they'res a good film I want to watch.
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