I honestly can’t remember the last time I sat down and watched a show on TV as it was airing, live. At least not one that I actually wanted to watch, if that makes sense. If I have the TV on, it’s a background noise, time-filling thing, where I’ll put on something that might capture my interest, but I won’t care if I miss, like food porn or something like that. The last time my wife and I sat down to actually watch a show - I think it was The Office - we both got so irritated with the ads that we shut it off and decided to download it the next day instead.
For me, it’s at least 90%. The only TV I watch live are sporting events.
I can’t stand commercials at all, and I hate being restricted in having to watch at a specific time (although I can accept this for sports, and tolerate the commercials, just barely.)
I watch stuff when it’s broadcast. We have an old VCR as a TV/VCR combo that my wife uses sometimes but we don’t have a DVR or anything.
My wife tends to download stuff via Hulu or dodgy, less reputable places to watch. But that’s largely stuff from channels we don’t get so I guess it’s not time shifting.
That’s my state. 99.9% of what I watch is on the computer. If everyone wants to watch, the computer is linked to the TV in the front room. A series makes a lot more sense when you can queue up a season at a time, without missing episodes or seeing them out of order.
First there was snail mail, now there’s appointment TV.
80+% of what I end up watching is timeshifted. The shows I want to make sure I see I always record and watch afterward but that isn’t a sufficient volume that there frequently times when I’ve got nothing left recorded to watch and so will end up watching other stuff on live TV for some amount of time.
Currently about a 3rd of my TV watching time is dedicated to plowing through the old Highlander TV series on Netflix so that’s timeshifted about 15 years.
Commercial breaks are now so annoying to us that even for a real-time broadcast we will go find something else to do for a half-hour or so to let the DVR record enough so that we can return and fast-forward past commercials. Same for live sports, it is unreal how much padding of pro football is just commercials and waiting between plays.
The only non-sports TV show I would watch live was Lost. I watch Browns games (still on broadcast TV, thankgod) and Indians games if they’re on broadcast. Considering how much TV I watch and how many Browns and Indians games are on broadcast TV, I’d say my number is about 99.5%
Pretty much all of it here. I just DVR everything I want to watch, and get back to it later. Sports are about the only thing I don’t pre-record, but I don’t watch much these days.
100% I have no tolerance whatsoever for live TV anymore. Even a live event that I want to watch real time I’ll start 15 minutes in to avoid sitting through commercials.
Most of it. Like Alessan said, I couldn’t tell you when most stuff comes on in the first place. Plus, I hate commercials too, so not watching it live is a tremendous plus to me.