Poll: How Do You Watch TV?

[Mr Light]

With all the talk of delay-viewing and downloading and TIVO-ing I'm wondering how the people actually watch TV.

Since I work an evenings job, have no money, and use dial-up, I use a VCR timer to tape all my shows and watch them when I get home. And since my second VCR is a piece of crap I have to plug in and reset each time I use it, I basically never watch two shows in one time slot (the only exceptions are made for Heroes and CSI!).

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I guess I'd have to go with Other, because otherwise it'd be multiple answers.
DVR/Media Centre PC, as well as downloads and online streaming, DVDs and occasionally live, because I don't have HD capability on my Media centre.

 

[Hermiod]

Asgard telepathy. Which is a euphemism.

 

[Jax]

Being in the UK, I have to wait ages for USA shows or they never come so you can guess how I get them (I can't infulence USA ratings so don't matter) but any UK shows I will watch LIVE but with BBC or Channel 4, I use there own website streaming system if I miss anything.

 

[backstept]

this should have been a multi choice poll, since I watch via several of the options
and TIVO should be DVR because TIVO is a service, not the method

 

[Trekker4747]

TiFaux, often live but there are times when I'm not.

 

[Mr Light]

Yeah, I shoulda put multiple options. Sorry. I can't edit that now, right?

I also shoulda put in DVD release as an option. Hurum.

 

[Sakrysta]

Hulu and DVD.

Online streaming probably should have been an option.

 

[Roger Wilco]

Illegal download and on my PC monitor almost exclusively. The exception is only sports, local news and occasionally if there's something really interesting on tv.

edit: occasionally live streams/p2ptv too (also illegal I guess, though it's more of a grey zone), and youtube of course.

 

[nx1701g]

Unless I really, really, really like the show I tend to watch it for free on the websites of the companies rather than on TV.

 

[Brian]

TIVO is a bit brand-specific, but I chose it as the only choice close to DVR, which is my primary method of television viewing.

 

[Ethros]

Well mainly I look at the screen, listen with my ears, and absorb the information as such.
It's not that difficult

 

[TheArsenal]

The only thing I watch live are sporting events, and not always then. Everything else is time shifted on the DVR. Even if I am available to watch a show on the night it broadcasts, I will wait 20 minutes so that I can fast forward through the commercials.

I also watch legal Netflix downloads for shows that have been off the air for some time (currently I am catching up on Earth 2).

 

[CaptainDonovin]

I had to go w/ other. The only thing I regularly watch that isn't off the dvr is a hockey game or football on the weekends. Other than that I'm either working or out @ the dog park w/ my lab.

 

[Starbreaker]

The only time I really sit down and watch TV on the TV is Lost, Dexter, and sports.

 

[Spot's Meow]

I put Live TV because that is what I prefer to do. But I take some evening classes now, so I have to DVR a lot of shows. If I didn't have class I would watch them live.

 

[Cicero]

I watch everything but Smallville via online streaming. I watch Smallville on DVD, always 7-15 months behind depending on the episode.

 

[Gaseous Anomaly]

I watch live broadcast unless I can't sit down to watch then I record it. That only happens when I'm working nights though.

 

[Scout101]

Should be able to pick at least a couple options. I picked "tivo", but that's not really accurate.

I've got a DVR from the cable company, with dual tuners, and most of my shows are in there. I usually watch live, and it catches any i forget or don't watch at the time. Often times, two things I like are on at once, so I watch one, pause it during commercials, switch and watch the other one for a bit, and then switch back. Takes a bit longer, but gets me through both of them fairly quickly.

Every now and then, a 3rd show I like is on at the same time, so I try and do the legal download thing (or streaming), depends on the network. If that fails, or is slow, I do the illegal download. The streaming option is easy enough that I do that a lot of the time, and I don't mind the 20 second "commercials" they put it. Annoying that they just keep showing the same one, though, you'd think they'd have 2-3 they could put into an episode, so you don't see the same one and ignore it...

 

[gh4chiefs]

Voted "Other" as it's a mix of live TV and DVR.