Watching American “football” on TV is abominable. I refuse to do it in these days unless I’m watching in a bar or have a chance to watch it time shifted.
None. I don’t have a television.
Most of what I watch it time shifted, but that’s because I am not home when it plays live. In the times I AM home…I watch it live.
None. I have two TVs but I don’t watch them.
I don’t watch any time-shifted tv. I like to be surprised by what is on and if there is nothing on, I do something else.
Zero. I am shiftless.
Pretty much everything except football. Even shows I am home to watch I will wait until 20 minutes into the show so I can speed past the commercials.
Huge irony here - I have always been very intolerant of commercials. Back in the prehistoric days before televisions came with IR remotes, I used to run a long speaker wire from the TV speaker to th a toggle in the wall by the primary TV watchin’ chair.
Now the only time I am assaulted by obnoxious ads is when I drop $30 to see a movie. 
We don’t watch much TV, but pretty much all we do watch is time shifted. The Daily Show starts at 8 out here, I walk the dog during it and come back to watch it without the ads.
100% time shifted. We don’t have any live TV.
Almost 100%. some sporting events, but everything else is shifted even just to get it started so I can skip commercials.
I’ll watch live sports, but almost nothing else. Maybe PBS or HBO, but almost nothing that has commercials. And even then, there’s a good chance there will be a few pauses on the DVR, so I end up time shifting it at least a little.
What is that noise I hear? It sounds like weeping TV advertising executives.
You may be hearing gnashing of teeth, but there will likely be no weeping. Advertisers will not weep, they’ll just move their dollars to someplace more effective. Content producers will not weep, they’ll just change the revenue model to charge the delivery vendors or the consumers directly (this basically happened with Cable when it first started; early Cable channels were mostly commercial-free). Pirates will still steal it, and whoever comes up with a decent model that monetizes it in small amounts (probably Apple, Google, or Microsoft) will make a killing as the model transitions to one in which the consumer is the customer.
The broadcasters may weep, I suppose. Advertiser-based broadcast TV cannot survive, and I don’t see the US, at least, accepting a british-style television tax. The PBS “ask for donations” model can barely support one station.
The old model may not look much like the new one (see what happened to the “album” as commercial music went digital), but we, as consumers will probably be happier: no longer will content have it’s ratings created by arbitrary schedule or passing taste. Shows will be successful if and only if people are willing to keep paying for them, with few outside influences on them at all.
Pretty much 100%. Certainly I DVR all shows that I decide to watch on a regular basis if feasible. For those shows that I cannot (2 show at the same time max technical limit), I try to watch with a friend (who DVRs them) or I watch them live with a friend who doesn’t have DVR.
Occasionally I’ll watch live TV, if I have no DVR shows or if I have no DVR shows that I’m in the mood for watching. But this will generally consist of movies on pay cable or repeats of shows I’ve already seen or some kind of free on demand which is effectively DVR.
I’ll also often turn on some channel for light background entertainment or just auditory company while I surf the entertainment, which I won’t seriously pay attention to.
OTOH I usually watch the entirety of my DVR shows, including commercials.
I only ever watch live sporting events live and on the very rare occasions I channel surf I might start watching something that catches my eye (but even then I normally look for a repeat showing and DVR it)
Fact is, I have a free-to-air satellite DVR and I can also get the BBC I-player on it. That by itself is enough to fulfill all of my TV watching. For us in the UK it is brilliant. Pretty much everything the BBC puts out can be watched or downloaded and there are NO commercials on it at all.
Last night I watched “the story of maths” and “The Eiger-wall of death” brilliant stuff.
I watch all my TV online. Does that count as time shifted?
I will occasionally catch one Internet show live, because it comes with a chat room where I can talk to other people about it. I think that’s the future of scheduled TV.
If you’re not watching it when it’s scheduled then it’s time shifted.
The only time I watch live anymore is if I happen to catch something interesting while surfing, and then I’m more likely than not to DVR it and finish it off later. So 80-90%, I guess.
Almost 100%. I can’t imagine trying to make it to the couch in time for something these days. I might for Dr. Who and True Blood, except we ditched satellite so those aren’t available anyway.
We DVR stuff from broadcast TV, watch Hulu and Netflix streaming, and watch DVDs from Netflix. It works out great, and I adore being able to plunk myself down at 8:37 or whatever and start watching something.