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    Re: QOTW: Do you still watch live TV?

    The kids usually have the xbox on, so maybe about an hour or less a day. Usually watch things off the hard drive plugged into the xbox, or netflix/amazon prime. But again, that only adds up to about 3 hours max in a day. If I'm not in work, not on a motorbike ride or a family day out, I can usually be found pottering about the house or on the pc

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    Re: QOTW: Do you still watch live TV?

    Nothing but catch-up TV. Only thing live is news channels

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    Re: QOTW: Do you still watch live TV?

    Not a bit since circa 2002, as a kid I loved it though. I think it was the stupid license fee prices that got me to stop at first then I found I didn't miss it and now I realise its just a government brainwashing tool.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you still watch live TV?

    Often have live on if we're wanting to kill a bit of time, but generally it's not worth it. So many adverts you rarely get to see any content.

    The programs I have a particular interest in watching I record. It's been that way since I was a kid, you could record one or two programs on your VHS tape (providing nobody else was), watch it and record over the top the next week. The quality has improved slightly with PVRs (only significantly if you pay for HD content), but it's less convenient, as you can't take the tape upstairs and watch it on a spare tele.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you still watch live TV?

    Quote Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix View Post
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    I hardly ever re-watch the same thing twice, I can't imagine investing the time to edit out adverts rather than just trick-play to skip over them. But then a bad edit would annoy me more than the butt end of any stupid advert
    It depends on what the material is. Part of it us for journalistic purposes - hence, many years of political conference speeches, budget speeches by the Chancellor, and many, many hours of interviews, etc, of politicians and similar. Also, hence my refusal to abandon one old PC that runs a custom-written database requiring XP to run.

    But, I take your point. For "entertainment" material, I watch some series over and over. A good example would be things like Yes, Minister/Prime Minister, West Wing and Babylon 5. Which is why I have commercial DVD versions of those. Many other series, and films, I hate having the atmosphere, the flow, the carefully-created ambience utterly erecked by f-f-flaming adverts. It destroys, for me, the 'magic', it breaks the mood.

    So .... copy to HDR, "top and tail" (I.e. remove gunge before and afterwards) and "de-advert" typically takes me 3-4 minutes for a 1-hr prog, leaving typically 38-41m of 'actual' content. A full film takes me maybe 7-8 minutes. So, I have a proceedure. I set about an hour aside once a week, often Sat morning, and can deadvert a couple of films and about 10 'episodes'.

    I agree about bad editing. However, consider that these programs have had adverts inserted. Often, there is a one-second or so, maybe half-second, fade-to-black leading into ads, and similar fade-from-black leading out. And a half-second is a HUGE target for me, because I can do frame-accurate edits, and at 25fps, that gives me a 12-13 frame target.

    About the only time you'll see "jarring" edits from me is when the numpty editing the ads in did it crudely. In that case, I make the best of a bad job, and it's nearly always less jarring than before I get at it.

    Also, bear in mind this ALL happens in-HDR, with a TV and remote. I don't go anywhere near a PC with all this, and I find it well worth an hour (give or take) once a week, and cetainly FAR less jarring, and hence mood and magic wrecking, than having to keep grabbing the remote every 5 to 10 minutes, all bleeping evening.

    I hear your point, and maybe this isn't for you. But I find it FAR more relaxing to spend a concentrated period of time dealing with adverts, and then actually relaxing when watching films or TV progs. This is probably why, as I said, I truly detest adverts - they wreck the mood and utterly destroy my enjoyment of the programs containing them.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you still watch live TV?

    Very rarely do I watch something live, if I do it's usually as mostly background noise, to kill time, and/or an occasional news report. Anything I'm truly interested in watching around the time of broadcast is something I will usually record or use catch-up services.

    Overall I would choose something like Netflix or Blu-Rays/DVDs to watch most entertainment at my leisure (without adverts - mostly anyway, as some still may be shoe-horned into the latter by the studios), and in the case of the news reports will usually read about them online instead.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you still watch live TV?

    the graphics are nice but the fps are low....

    nah not watched it live for ages

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    Re: QOTW: Do you still watch live TV?

    I still watch a lot of live tv, mainly BBC 0ne. I tend to record dramas from satellite channels to bulk watch on Sundays.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you still watch live TV?

    Not only don't I not watch live TV, I don't even watch broadcast TV at all anymore. It's inconvenient and unnecessary given the technology is available for online on demand series streaming and such.
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    Re: QOTW: Do you still watch live TV?

    I still watch "live TV", but I just call it "TV", old-fart that I am. Admittedly I watch very little live on terrestrial channels though, save for C4's coverage of F1, Horizon, and BBC or C4 news. And any BBC natural history stuff involving David Attenborough or Steve Backshall. And Top Gear.

    Other channels I watch live are Nat Geo, Discovery and their sister channels. Not interested in all those American drama series.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you still watch live TV?

    Nope. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, YouTube, motogp.com... Can get 99% of what I'd get over the air plus so much more with streaming.

    It's amazing that networks and producers are just finally coming around to realizing this. I pay a fair, and very low rate all things told for what I have access to and don't have to see adverts, or see very limited adverts.

    Thank you to HBO for having a streaming service, and partnering with Amazon, so that I could watch WestWorld. And hell, Amazon and Netflix originals? Hit it out of the f'in park!

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    Re: QOTW: Do you still watch live TV?

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    Not only don't I not watch live TV, I don't even watch broadcast TV at all anymore. It's inconvenient and unnecessary given the technology is available for online on demand series streaming and such.
    It won't be unnecessary until everyone can get decent broadband speed. Those in rural areas often get a much better TV signal than broadband speed.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you still watch live TV?

    sill have sky and ive not watched in a few years other than ppv boxing nothing, really need to cancel actually

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    Re: QOTW: Do you still watch live TV?

    Not at all really for me.

    On average, i might watch say 1hour of live TV per month, mostly none at all though.

    As for other 'similar to TV' content, i do watch some anime (currently 2 series, at 1hour per week) But the closest i have to actual TV is that i regularly watch a lot of stuff on Youtube, particularly gaming and science themed channels, something like a good 2hours a day there.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you still watch live TV?

    I don't watch much tv full stop as most of it is rubbish anyway. If I had my way I would get rid of Sky but the wife won't let me. I watch F1 live unless it's a early morning quali/race in which case I record it, apart from that I watch the news live and that's about it. We record a few programs on Sky but a lot of them have ended now so I will be watching even less.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you still watch live TV?

    I watch TV at work during lunch as we have one in the kitchen, otherwise no, there is already almost too much to watch when you watch only the things you like. TV is 95% things you do not care about and no longer has any value in my eyes, the remaining 5% can be consumed via newspapers etc.

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