How much of what you watch is in real time vs taped?
10-04-08, 04:10 PM
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Very rarely I'll start something while it is still being shown, but I'll time it such that I can still skip the commercials.
10-04-08, 08:43 PM
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I DVR pretty much everything I watch. My wife, however, will turn on TV and watch random shows live. Well, by "watching," I mean have the TV on while she's reading a book on the couch.
10-04-08, 09:07 PM
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10-04-08, 10:15 PM
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The only show I watch live is Pushing Daisies. We could watch it the next day or we could let the Tivo get ahead by 20 minutes, but there's something kind of nostalgic about having the whole family watch a show together, live and with commercials.
10-04-08, 10:27 PM
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95% is Tivo'd. I usually throw on live tv if I am doing something on the computer and I don't have any shows on the Tivo that I just want to listen to without watching.
10-04-08, 10:34 PM
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unless it's sports, it's from the DVR.
10-04-08, 10:39 PM
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99% dvr. Even with sports programming, I'll let it record for about 20-30 minutes before I start watching. The only time live tv is on is when it's playing in the background.
10-04-08, 10:44 PM
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As mentioned with others.. Sports real time, pretty much everything else is a later playback in some form.
If cable/satellite offered a sports only option, I would probably get that and only that.
I'd put "shows" in the same watching realm as movies. In Hulu, some other web stream, DVD, pay per view (theater included in this for movies), or some other form.. just like movies.
If cable/satellite offered a sports only option, I would probably get that and only that.
I'd put "shows" in the same watching realm as movies. In Hulu, some other web stream, DVD, pay per view (theater included in this for movies), or some other form.. just like movies.
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10-04-08, 10:56 PM
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Yeah I do. When I first got it, I was recording like 7-8 shows a week. Then the excitement wore off, and I just went back to watching the shows I enjoy live. I occasionally recorded Big Brother After Dark this past season, since it was on so late, but that's the only time recently I've used it.
10-04-08, 11:18 PM
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I watch pretty much everything recorded, although recently my Fox HD is screwed up and I have to watch Fox stuff live or its gets garbled on the DVR. Haven't figured out why.
10-04-08, 11:46 PM
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I haven't watched TV live since 1974. Well, maybe my dates are wrong, but it's been awhile.
I usually don't start watching a program till it's 20 minutes in, but it's weird I've gotten so used to it, I tend to do the same with programming even when there's no commercials.
I usually don't start watching a program till it's 20 minutes in, but it's weird I've gotten so used to it, I tend to do the same with programming even when there's no commercials.
10-05-08, 12:12 AM
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Yeah I do. When I first got it, I was recording like 7-8 shows a week. Then the excitement wore off, and I just went back to watching the shows I enjoy live. I occasionally recorded Big Brother After Dark this past season, since it was on so late, but that's the only time recently I've used it.
10-05-08, 12:25 AM
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Most of what I watch is "real time" because I don't have a DVR. But I so watch some shows on Network websites and Hulu so I don't know if that's still considered "real time" or not.
