This week im going to stop watching live TV

[dave0010]

I find myself wasting to much time these days watching utter c**p on tv for far to long a period. So I have decided I'm going to try to go a full week without watching live TV.

Instead I'm only going to watch streamed episodes and films that I have. This will catch me up on series I have got behind on like "The walking dead" but will limit the amount of time I just sit there chilling out. Hopefully this will also give me the motivation to start running again and various other activities I have out off doing.

Anyone else no longer watch live TV??

[DeadMeat_UK]

dave0010 said:

I find myself wasting to much time these days watching utter c**p on tv for far to long a period. So I have decided I'm going to try to go a full week without watching live TV.

Instead I'm only going to watch streamed episodes and films that I have. This will catch me up on series I have got behind on like "The walking dead" but will limit the amount of time I just sit there chilling out. Hopefully this will also give me the motivation to start running again and various other activities I have out off doing.

Anyone else no longer watch live TV??

Don't know if this counts, but I have Sky+ and only ever watch stuff that I've recorded previously. I pretty much have no idea when anything is actually on.

Even "live" events like F1 I tend to watch a minute or two behind so I can pause when I leave the room !

[kooky guy]

Me too. Sky+ all the way. I refuse to have to waste my life watching adverts, so everything gets recorded/paused.

Not that there ever seems to be anything on worth watching most of the time.

[Truckosaurus]

Yes, the only things I watch live these days are sporting events and the Jeff Stelling Show on Saturday afternoons.

I'm so advert averse that often if I catchup to 'real time' on a show, I'll stop watching and come back later when it's finished recording.

[davepoth]

Perversely I think I watch more TV broadcast live in the USA on hooky internet feeds than I watch stuff live in the UK.

[uncle tez]

Ive not watched live tv for years apart from sports of course

[dave0010]

Well still no live tv for me finding getting home from work the hardest as I was always used to just plonking myself down in front of the TV.

But so far this week due to less TV my flat is immaculate, I have meet up with a few mates which I have just been to lazy to do and enjoyed myself more then I think I would have had I been watching TV so its all good

[rpguk]

I think in the decade since I moved out from home I've had a TV for a couple of months when I was living with my girlfriend. I watch a handful of shows online at my convenience

When I'm back at home or at a friends house I'm amazed at how bad TV has become - seems to be a handful of reality shows which are repeated across channels for days on end with masses of adverts for accident claims, payday loans etc in between.

Do it, it'll be the best thing you've ever done.