Watching me, watching you.

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1283159]

Comments

[andrewducker]

I vary back and forth between downloads and DVDs. Box sets are so cheap at the moment that it's worth it for the quality to pay £30 for three seasons of BSG (for instance).

[dreema.livejournal.com]

same here. I'll use downloads for the latest stuff, because I want it now, damnit! But I'll also go out and buy the dvds of the same once they're down to a reasonable price

[ishkhara.livejournal.com]

I WANT a large, flatscreen HD TV!

< sad gamer > But only for my RPGs. < /sad gamer >

[chuma.livejournal.com]

I mostly watch BBC News 24, Sky Sports News or Dave on TV. Other than that I watch occasional series like House or Dexter and after midnight I watch the Poker or some other sport. There isn't much other I watch to be honest, other than the occasional film or comedy program on other channels.

[andrewducker]

I'm not in reliably enough to watch TV series on actual TV. Which is where V+ was very useful. Nowadays I just download/buy instead, bcause it makes it even easier.

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

The CRT telly isn't mine, I don't think I've ever actually owned my own telly.

[andrewducker]

A distinct lack of power sockets in tents on Lundy, one assumes...

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

something like that :P

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

Actually, since I am totting up time spent in ridiculous jobs for my IEEM application:

Months spent on islands/tents/mountains: 17
Months spent in urban with electricity, running water and quite often an actual physical domicile to live in: 41

so there.

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

oo, and if I include current employment I have enough experience that, if my application is succesful, I can put the letters "AIEEM" after my name. I can then say "Hi, I'm Sarah Dalrymple AIEEM" and pronounce the letters as if someone just stood on my foot.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

My CRT is a flatscreen :P

[andrewducker]

Damn you and your slipstream technology!

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Does a 30" Dell TFT count as a HDTV here? Or does TV require that it contains an analogue tuner?

[andrewducker]

HDTV I'd say. Does it take HDMI?

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Oh, no.

It has a DVI input though (that's it's only input).

It has a 2560x1600 resolution.

[andrewducker]

DVI is good enough for me! (Makes more sense than HDMI if there's no speakers on it)

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

There was no box for 'I don't have an HD TV but my computer is 1920x1200'.

[andrewducker]

That's why the option further down is there for watching downloadables. And comments, of course :->

Do you watch DVDs on it? Is it your main way of watching TV? I'm curious - because I avoid watching anything longer than a YouTube clip on the monitor - I much prefer to copy it to the network storage and watch it from the sofa.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

No and no. I do watch downloadables on it, even some hour-long ones; but mostly I watch them from the sofa. I do, however, want a 1920x1080 screen in my living room; mostly because the current TV makes a very poor computer monitor and if I'm upgrading at all, I want to upgrade to full HD.

[sageautumn.livejournal.com]

I have a largish tube TV with a flat screen. And the only DVD player I have is my computer--I rarely watch DVDs at all.

... and I don't download video files, but I do watch a decent amount of network TV from broadcast TV's websites.

Re: TV

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

Any TV watched is on the computer. Our old TV broke and we've just had no good reason to get a new one.

And it's really between downloads and DVDs. I vary too.

Re: TV

[andrewducker]

Is your computer in a place easily viewable from the sofa?

Re: TV

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

No, but my computer chair is very comfy. It's designed for someone my size, the sofa isn't.

Re: TV

[andrewducker]

Aaaah. I generally watch TV with other people.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

I feel a need to justify my answers. :-)

Our large (52 inch) CRT HDTV was bought used from a coworker for a ridiculously small price. We can't watch anything but DVDs or VHS tapes on it. We're rural so we don't have the bandwidth availability to download things much more complicated than podcasts or YouTube videos.

[andrewducker]

You don't have to excuse your lack of downloading :-> I started wondering if _anyone_ I knew had a Blu-Ray player, and went on from there...

[trav28.livejournal.com]

Being sad I have both a Ps3 (crap bluray playback) and a standalone Bluray (Panasonic, plays multi region DVD). Both go through HDMI. I need to buy a lead so I can hook my laptop up to my HD TV.

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

... technically I suppose we are "between TVs", i.e. we got rid of the old CRT (28", I suppose that's still reasonably large :-) ), and we're in transit at the moment, so we don't have anything. I'm reasonably sure that we'll get some sort of screen, probably flatscreen, maybe HD, when we get to Oz. Unlikely to buy a blu-ray player for a while yet, though ...

[derumi.livejournal.com]

My last few tube teevees were flat-screen. I currently have a large flat-panel now. My mother has a rear-projection HDTV, which are getting pretty cheap nowadays, it seems.

Need ticky boxes for the first question. I have a stand-alone Blu-ray player and a PS3.

Expansion

[errolwi.livejournal.com]

My large-screen TV was acquired cheapish, which probably advanced it's acqisition by several months. Prior to this we used a 17' computer screen and an external tuner.
Downloaded TV eps are normally watched on the big plasma, using a portable DVD player and a fast USB drive. This is usually prefered over the laptop as a source, as the DVD player has a remote for when the phone rings.
In a given month, if we have recently acquired a DVD set, we may watch more DVDs than downloads. The volume of both is fairly low, a few to several hours per week.
We would probably download more if we didn't live in NZ with a 20Gb/month data limit.
Downloads are prefered over broadcast for various reasons. We don't watch enough to make getting a PVR worthwhile, so scheduling is easier with downloads. Broadcast TV also tends to screw around with screen ratios - for instance we watched the first episode of Life when it was broadcast here, noticed it had the sides cut off, and downloaded the rest of S1 over the next month.

[yalovetz]

We watch TV through i_ate_my_crusts PC, on her flat screen monitor.

[yalovetz]

That's broadcast TV. Downloads and DVDs we watch on my laptop.

[darkoshi]

I don't download video, but I watch some streaming video... I suppose you'd interpret that as "I don't watch video files", but I clicked the other.

[avatar.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why there is seemingly no demand for DATA on blu-ray. I am itching to get me a blu-ray burner at a reasonable price so I don't have to have hordes of DVD's.

[andrewducker]

At $300 for the burners and $8 for the disks I'm not waiting this week. Cheaper to get an external drive and copy over the network...

[avatar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, at a reasonable price...they need to come down a bit more first. I'm willing to pay more for a burner once the media is cheaper.