QOTW: Do you still watch live TV?

[aidanjt]

Those in rural areas often get a much better TV signal than broadband speed.

Luckily I, and most others, don't live out in the sticks. Diminished service availability is just one of the major consequences of living in remote sparsely populated areas. It's the trade off one makes for living in a more pleasant environment.

[Saracen]

Luckily I, and most others, don't live out in the sticks. Diminished service availability is just one of the major consequences of living in remote sparsely populated areas. It's the trade off one makes for living in a more pleasant environment.

I'm inclined to agree, but when government goes out of its way to put more and more central aspects of living online, it also should be incumbent on them to ensure everyone has at least a decently useable broadband speed available. It's getting harder and harder to not be online.

[Wrinkly]

In the UK I use a TV card with Windows Media Center hacked to work with Windows 10. Mostly sits on the news channels while I am working. Occasionally watch a movie (last night The Horseman with Tommy Lee Jones) or a comedy.

[Iota]

Only ever watch catch up TV when I series I enjoy is on, as for live TV? No, too many adverts.

[jnutt]

Wife watches a little, Me none.

[Marenghi]

Stopped watching live TV years ago, before streaming was a thing. I much prefer having the option to watch what suits my schedule

[hb904460]

With limited broadband (speed and usage limit) we watch mainly live TV in our household. However it is mainly the children, the wife and I will watch live sport and recorded films when we have the chance.

[cheesemp]

Only via Fire TV stick... Aerial broke a while ago. Used the firestick as a workaround and realised we just didn't need an aerial anymore. Don't watch much live though other than cbeebies and then only to stop 3 year old from a My little pony series binge (don't judge - we have a 7 week old too and it keeps her quiet while feeding)

[daddacool]

Half an hour of Breakfast telly with, erm, breakfast, and some live football but that's about it to be honest. Mind you, I wrote a blog post back in 2012 about how the concept of waiting for something to come on TV rather than streaming it immediately was already an anathema to our kids (3 & 5 back then), so I'm not really surprised

[Rad77]

Not for many years.

Some years ago I had already switched from watching live to only watching content that had been recorded on a PVR, then 18 months ago I moved into a house with no TV aerial, so I ditched the PVR (and the TV License) and since then have only watched Netflix (plus TVNow when Game of Thrones is on). And that works just fine on my superslow 6 meg rural broadband...

[EndlessWaves]

Most of the steaming services have a heavy US bias which doesn't really interest me (although the Japanese stuff on Netflix is often good), so most of my video watching is broadcast TV.

I'll watch it live if it's convenient (and not something where adverts break the mood) but probably around half of it gets taped and watched a day or two later since it's often all broadcast in the same 9pm slot.

Those in rural areas often get a much better TV signal than broadband speed.

Luckily I, and most others, don't live out in the sticks. Diminished service availability is just one of the major consequences of living in remote sparsely populated areas. It's the trade off one makes for living in a more pleasant environment.

Most of the areas with poor broadband are sparsely populated but not remote. It's in the gaps between towns and cities, not in the remote highlands, that most of the not spots are.

[OilSheikh]

I download TV eps and watch them at home or on the train. Shows usually never air here or take 6 months longer to air. I sometimes also find shows which no longer air and watch them e.g. Air Wolf

[Jaffo]

Just sport, and even then often with a bit of delay so that I can skip ad breaks and half times etc. Everything else on catchup or streamed.

[aidanjt]

Most of the areas with poor broadband are sparsely populated but not remote. It's in the gaps between towns and cities, not in the remote highlands, that most of the not spots are.

Remote from dense population centres, you don't need to literally live on a mountain peak to be in a remote place.

[Csikasz]

not for 9 years now