What is your main source of television (if any?)
Poll to follow.
Cable. My neighborhood is thickly wooded (almost like a campground), and as such I lack a clear, unobstructed view to the south. Otherwise I’d have satellite.
Direct TV! LOVE IT!
I watch like 30 hours of TV a week. Something else. shifty eyes
Used to be DirecTv, but the dishes aren’t allowed in my new apartment building so we had to give it up. We have FIOS now and are pretty happy with it, (and the internet kicks butt) though I like the DVR less.
Holy hell, I’m an asshole who just claimed he “doesn’t watch TV.”
Anyway. Just spent a day at Best Buy selecting a 3DTV and associated devices; one of the big questions regarded my source of TV. Man, when they found out I didn’t have OTA, cable, or satellite, they really hit sales mode to try to get me to sign up for something or, at least, get an antenna to get OTA broadcasts.
I’ve worked third shift for 15+ years, so despite the rise of DVRs and such, I haven’t been in the habit of watching episodic television in the digital era. I watch DVDs and Blu-Rays and (ahem sure-I’ll-assume-it’s-legal-methods), and will really benefit from the 3DTV set-up, but still don’t have a source for TV.
I receive all I need over the air with a converter box.
I could not sit still for a movie if it were free. About all I watch are the news and NASCAR. I got tired of 2.5 men and won’t be watching the replacement for Sheen. If it broke it might not get replaced for a very long time.
I catch prime time sitcoms through Hulu, a couple cable shows through YouTube, and a couple premium series through other sources.
I have a TV but usually only turn it on for DVDs.
Cable, followed by Netflix through the Wii.
I mostly watch antenna broadcasts recorded by my TivoHD, but I’d say at least 40% of my viewing comes from Netflix streaming and to a lesser extent Amazon Prime. I can stream Netflix to Roku, TivoHD, PS3, and iPod.
I switched to Verizon FIOS about 2 months ago. The TV part is far and away better than Cablevision, although I find the internet just a tiny bit slower.
I need two spots.
I have cable, but I don’t watch TV.
I had Dish for a while, but dumped them last year… prices kept rising, signal was gone every time they predicted bad weather, no customer service, ech.
Digital cable through the phone company works, at least I have a picture the rare times I turn the set on.
Did you ever think of canceling cable to save the money and buying something like a Roku box to stream online video to your TV? Or getting an antenna? With digital programming I can get 20+ channels even though I’m 40 miles from a city.
Currently have Dish Network. I hate it. The dvr blows and I loose signal during even the mildest rain. I’m going to cancel it within a month and switch back to AT&T Uverse. I’d love to go without cable and just use the many options available on the web but the wife has an extreme change phobia. It’ll take me a few months to get her used to the idea and a few more months to get her to stop complaining about inconsequential bs once I stop paying for cable.
I switched to the Internet when it became clear that most of what I was watching was available streaming, and the price of cable TV kept climbing past what I was willing to pay. I would use an antenna if there was one already on the roof (I found one in pieces buried in the woods, oddly enough), but my location is far (and ultramontane) from Albany and NYC; I doubt it would get much of anything.
Oh, and baseball on the radio.
Basic cable. We downgraded from extended basic and haven’t missed it.
I had sattalite and it sucked everytime the weather thought about not being perfect if would dissapear, also known as when I most want to watch TV. I have cable now.
I also watch a fair bit of Hulu since I’m rarely around for primetime broadcasts but I still watch baseball and sportscenter on cable. I just did the nealson thing and realized that I only watch about 30 hours of TV a week about 20 hours of it was baseball and sportscenter.