How much TV do you watch nowadays?
 

By watching TV I mean stuff that normally airs on TV such as movies(they all eventually do), tv shows and animated series(well maybe not anime OVAs since they're direct to video). So just wondering, in case you're gonna say you never watch TV at all but still watch The Simpsons on DVD everyday, that counts as watching TV. However, watching youtube stuff such as Angry Video Game Nerd episodes doesn't count as watching TV.

I really don't watch much. I watch about 2-3 hours per week on average. That includes one or two football matches. And I don't follow any TV show atm nor have I watched anime in a long time. Occasionally I'll watch a movie but not on a weekly basis. Then there's short news videos I watch on either youtube or on the media outlets' websites.

As for actually turning on the TV itself, well usually when I do it's to play console games.

What about you?

I think we had this thread a while ago where I was criticized by Cybercubed for only watching around 40 minutes of TV a day and that I needed to watch more.

None, unless a new episode of a show I keep up with is on and I'm lucky enough to catch it. I'm hardly home though, so streaming is the way to go for me, which is how I watch most of my shows.

I don't watch stuff on TV with commericals anymore, but I speed run through shows online.

Watching shows with commercials is for chumps. This isn't 1995 anymore.

Oh? I don't remember it, honestly. But I can totally see CC saying that lol

Speed run? Really? And honestly, you're not the first person I've seen saying this. I could never do that. I don't like missing stuff.

Man, commercials are the worst.

I'm not a huge fan of binge-watching. I usually go through a show 1 episode per day. You digest the material better and makes each episode worth more.

I don't pick up anime or series with that in mind. It's never my goal to power through the whole thing in one day only. Not even for 13-26 episode long anime series. By the time I watch my sixth episode of the day, I already start feeling burnout. Everyone has their own pace.

I watch at least 3 hours a day.

Read the OP, movies/dvds/netflix/youtube would count as watching "TV" under his definition


I used to feel like this when I first started watching show online exclusively around 11 years ago. I agree with you and it makes the "journey" more memorable when you do it like this. But I've also now seen the light of binge watching; When you have a show that has a high episode count it would take you way too much time, to finish. Anything that's more than 60 episodes I need to binge watch or I'll never finish. By doing this you can get through shows rather quickly.

Yeah I haven't watched commercials on TV on my own for a decade now, I could never go back. I regret all those hours I wasted of my life watching commercials as a kid. Though I'll admit I've viewed 90s commercials on youtube for nostalgic purposes :lol:

What do you mean by "speed run"?

When I'm watching some of those endless shows that I'm not super interested in I tend to watch them while being on my PC and doing stuff like say posting on the drome. That way if I spend two hours on the internet I also got to see like 6 episodes of a show and I can finish them off quickly. I recently did that with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers since it was 200+ episodes.

The downside of that is you don't pay attention to everything that's happening on screen and sometimes you miss some information and also you can't do anything too intensive on the internet since if you do some real reading it means you're not paying any attention to the TV. So yeah if I do this I can only browse websites more passively/social and not read about say something actually useful for life.

If you watch movies, cartoons, etc. on Netflix or youtube then yeah, you're "watching TV" imo. But a youtube video of a guy talking about his day or a personal vlog channel don't count since they were not made to air on TV at all.

Multi-tasking while watching movies and such would be fine but... I watch anime in Japanese and also media in other languages. I need subtitles for those(barely for German nowadays).

It depends on the youtube content, there's plenty of high quality with nice production on youtube and not just fat sweaty guys on their basement, it's totally TV. That's why you have stuff like youtube red and now youtubetv, all smartTVs and so many streaming devices including consoles include youtube apps without mentioning tv shows now copy ideas from youtube. Is a game review not "TV"? Because when there were Video Game review shows on TV they were counted as such.

Yeah when watching something in a foreign language you really can't multi-task, which is good since you pay more attention but when you have an anime that's 100+ episodes and only subs are available it means I'll probably skip it.

I don't watch much TV any more since being on the computer a lot, which has taken my majority of the time, I would watch TMNT when a new episode is on, but sometimes I don't watch it til a day or 2 later since I have a Tivo recording it for me.

I watch shows that literally go on for hundreds of episodes like Pokemon, Dragonball, TMNT, etc....the only way to get through these shows is to binge watch.

Of course when the shows are new and only 1 ep airs a week you can't do anything about that. But when shows are already over, or have a huge chunk of seasons/episodes in the past....you can watch through it all very quickly. For example the original TMNT cartoon is 193 episodes yet I can watch through it all in about 2 months.

YouTube Red series, from what I gather, is different since they're actual series made by a big company. A guy like AVGN is just a guy who decided to do a couple of funny game reviews and then became a hit with them without ever expecting it. It's the idea of two men at best. It's not a corporate creation that's meant to be watched on TV. AVGN episodes are all over the place as far as running time goes. If it was an actual TV show that would never happen. Also, lots of sh*t that goes on in AVGN episodes... no way it'd get shown on TV. It'd get censored and all his pop culture references, including physical objects, and Mike Matei dressed up as Joker or Bugs Bunny... pretty sure they'd have to pay copyrights for it. Also, if a big tv network created that show, certain companies would not like getting trashed on prime time... like LJN, per example. No way James would get away with sh*tting so openly on them if his "show" aired on Comedy Central.

As for reviews on TV, well those are professionally made and by actual gaming journalists. James Rolfe is neither.

Nowadays, it cannot be too hard to make videos in good quality, considering how everyone owns a smartphone, some of them with very good cameras. Also, anyone who is talented with cameras can make nice looking vlog videos. By that logic, my family vacation videos would count as TV if I decided to upload them on youtube someday.

Now, don't get me wrong, I understand where you're coming from, but I'd rather not put every sort of video in the same bag in this case.

Yeah, thank God Legend of the Galactic Heroes was fully subbed a decade ago or almost. Also, it's really annoying when a manga series hasn't been fully translated that. Me and another guy had been meaning to read Ashita no Joe for years but it NEVER got picked up until around 2014 or so.

I only watch YT videos these days. Couldn't say how long since it's sporadic, and the content of those videos don't count. I do watch Sonic Boom and the Nick TMNT series. I watch South Park eps when they're new and I occasionally watch Adventure Time.

Back home, practically none. I only watched TV for shows I kept up with and that was about two and those same two eps I can no longer watch over here.

I watch maybe an hour or less a day on average, I guess. I don't use cable, just streaming services on which I keep up to date with anime, TMNT, & Gaki No Tsukai. When I'm binge-watching a series, like I recently did with Boardwalk Empire, I might do 5+ hours a day.

Why do so many people still watch the Pokémon anime after all these years? It must have nearly one thousand episodes by now and most of them involve Team Rocket trying to steal Pikachu. Will Ash ever become a Pokémon master? The Pokémon anime is just a 20 minute ad for the video game series. It's episodic and I'm sure people only watch it for a season or two and then drop it once they reach puberty. The fact that there's so many adults who still watch it since the first season first came out is mindblowing.

I don't watch tv, I despise commercials and empty talk shows. Thank God for internet.

The tv series I watch on my PC whenever I want.

Because it caters to many generations after generations? Quit whining like a grandpa yelling at clouds and watch the anime yourself.

The current Sun & Moon anime series is particularly entertaining imo.

For the same reasons people watch The Simpsons, or Spongebob.

Anyway, people like Pokemon, the Pokemon themselves, a lot. It's not always about Ash for the viewers. & the latest season got a makeover as well as some other much needed changes. Team Rocket get their own travel tales now as opposed to it always being a hunt for Pikachu. We see them capturing Pokemon, taking part in local culture, etc. It's really good.

But The Simpsons I get. Each episode tells a new story. However, Pokémon was the same thing for over a decade. Hopping from town to town or area to area and battling trainers, catching pokémon, defeating gym leaders, etc.

Had no idea it got a new makeover.

No idea about Spongebob since I've never seen it. Is that even still on?

Not understanding why people like something =/= whining like a grandpa. Boy you really sold me on the Pokémon anime!