From the 'Eurovision" thread. TV viewing habits.

A propos my earlier comments The Flying Archaeologist and The Tunnels of the Somme on BBC4 tonight.

Funnily enough I watched Eurovision.
However, that was the first thing I’d watched complete for three weeks, and for certain reasons of my own, I quite enjoyed it. I reckon my average TV watching is about 30 minutes per week.
I read a lot and use the internet, and I listen to the radio a lot (often Radio 4).
I find 95% of modern television completely puerile to be honest.
Pap for the masses mostly, and we run ‘a wish we could harm list’ for certain so called personalities.
To put someone on the list not only do you have to hate them but devise a nasty way of harming them.
Ant and Dec are top of my list, which is slightly strange because I doubt I’ve watched more than five minutes television with them actually on screen in my life. I just don’t like the look of them.
I could easily live without a set completely and probably will when the present set dies.

I work shifts so luckily i tend to avoid TV.The family watch all the soaps and talent crap so i tend to move away and listen to music.There is the odd comedy i enjoy,The Big Bang Theory,The I T crowd,Father Ted, Mrs Browns boys .
I do record Match of the Day and watch it on sunday morning where i can fast forward the chat between games.
We have 1 TV downstairs and a portable in our bedroom.

YES I TOO HAVE A VINYL COLLECTION AND RECORD DECK 🙂

We have one widescreen TV. We watch the news at 6pm on BBC1, then local news at 6:30 on BBC1 then the TV is taken off until after 9pm – then we watch something from our DVD collection. We don’t watch any of the commercial channels because ther advert breaks are too frequent and too long. We don’t watch “talent” shows, reality shows, game shows, soaps, cooking competitions or sport.

I have a varied DVD collection – ‘Thunderbirds’, ‘Flambards’, ‘Cadfael’, ‘Dallas’, ‘Wish me Luck’, ‘Fawlty Towers’, ‘Father Ted’, ‘Keeping Up Appearances’, ‘River Cottage’, ‘London’s Burning’, ‘Walk on the Wild Side’, ‘Walking with Monsters’, ‘Walking with Dinosaurs’, ‘Walking with Beasts’, ‘Life of Birds’, various war documentaries, a few films and my most beloved series of them all ‘Secret Army’. We don’t need to watch the worthless rubbish screened on TV when we have such good programmes on DVD, things which are not repeated on TV any more.

My fellow work colleague set it all up for me with some clever switching for stereo and mono and with some extra bits added to make it all make sense. Quite unorthodox than some systems but it works and sounds wonderful. Some Marshall Combo Amps, as well as other makes too such as Line 6 and Fender, have input & output jacks so you’re able to wire them up to CD, DVD, Blu-Ray players and even your home LP stack and such.

Where’d that post go?… Ah well. 🙂

Favourite programmes : HIGNFY, QI…

They’re currently filming the new series, ‘K’. Very much looking forward to it.

Does anyone have a Vinyl Record Player? We’ve got one and I’m quite surprised how many people don’t. Got it wired up to a Marshall Cab with 4x 12″ Celestion speakers. They still sound way better than CDs, digi Walkman, iPods & what have you. Just like music should, Mono.

In think at the last count we can access about 100, free, …and we watch 2!! Occasionally recording material on a couple of others and I watch rugger most Sunday evenings in the season on ITV4, otherwise what a waste!!:rolleyes:

Having just consigned our old 405 line Monochrome tea chest to the skip and got one of them new flat thingies I was shocked to find out that there are more than 3 channels to watch now!……

Totes amazeballs (whatever language that is…)

I tend to have my tv on in the mornings, just as something to wake me up a bit. In the evenings it’s usually only on as a bit of company (I currently live alone), or because I’m watching something specific. Most of my actual TV viewing is from on-demand services or dvds these days, I find it’s the easiest way to wade through the seas of trash they broadcast. There’s actually a lot of quality programming out there, I like BBC 4 particularly, but there is just so much more choice it’s difficult to find what I like.

With my wife being retired and me being semi-retired, we do watch a fair bit of TV.
We still have a CRT TV in the lounge (why chuck it out if it still works ?), and a small flat screen in the bedroom.

Having Sky+ or it’s equivalent must have transformed the viewing habits of many people ? Apart from the news we hardly
watch anything live.
Favourite programmes : HIGNFY, QI, The old Sherlock Holmes series on ITV4 (Jeremy Brett).
Documentaries on the History and Nat.Geo channels. Film4 put some good films on as well. We hardly watch anything on ITV1

We don’t watch any soaps, talentless shows, or quiz programmes, Although my wife does like to watch Uni.Challenge.

Some of the foreign news channels are interesting to watch, to get a different view of what is going on in the world.

One 32″ in the living room and an 18″ in the bedroom. Apart from the Formula 1, MotoGP and the BTCC my Girlfriend and myself watch, which is usually on quite often & goes without saying anyway, there’s only the likes of QI, Have I Got New For You, Top Gear, James May’s mix of programs he does every now and then, some documentaries be it science, aviation, wildlife and such… some Drama, we’ve been watching The Fall starring Gillian Anderson which is pretty good… other than those there’s not much else we’d really go out our way to watch. Although we check the likes of BBC iPlayer for things. DVDs are usually the choice or something online…

…if not, out with the Guitar and Drums… or, or…. or something else… 😀

One 24″ and a small 18″. Never watch until after dinner – 8ish except for exceptional one-offs like a sporting event perhaps.
Probably watch 4/5 hours TV per week – TV is usually used for recorded films or DVDs.