To think that in 10 years time television will be a thing of the past?

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Typical evening here: me on my iphone, DH on computer, DS1 on laptop/ipad and DS2 the same. Can't remember the last time we watched tv. Talking last night about cancelling Sky as we don't watch it.

Tee

I never listen to the radio either.

So you'd really rather not have an impartial channel with no commercial sponsors that strives to make quality programmes on many platforms and doesn't bombard our kids with adverts... however flawed?

Exactly howsuper. I find it incomprehensible!

Did your children not watch cbeebies? Isn't that in itself worth £2.50 a week??

You can watch TV without adverts online using adblocker. You can also watch the BBC online without a TV license if you use iPlayer and catch-up services.

People aren't watching the BBC live because they can watch the same shows an hour later online without paying the license fee.

we have freeview and I record most sitcoms on E4 plus Frasier and also films/series (kids' stuff toi) and other programmes of interest.
I can't remember the last time I watched "live" tv!

hate adverts too, the beauty of recorded stuff is that you can skip the boring bits

We use netflix and barely watch tv. But we do watch a couple of shows so still pay the TV licence. I like that the BBC exists. And what funds the BBC radio? As I'm very glad that is there.

No Sky, but would only watch The Face if I had it.

I don't watch the telly because I can't figure out how to work it I just stick to my ipad and dh watches the tv. When I'm old and rickety, I definitely won't be able to work the tv's because they'll be even more high tech than they are now.

You try to take my telly........I keeeeeel you

Tee - 32 million people listen to BBC radio stations each week.
You are alone in your opprobrium.

I suppose there are roughly three uses for a screen

1. watching video ("Watching TV")
2. reading/interacting with internet
3. playing games

If you watch netflix, lovefilm, DVDs, whatever, that is "watching TV." I only watch rugby "live", drama, documentary and movies are watched when I feel like. I have ten or so things on series record. The sky box is connected to the internet and can downloaded things (from terrestrial or Sky channels) that I miss. (DD and DW do watch some TV "live" though.)

I only want to watch video in 1080 line HD on a giant screen with several hundred watts of surround sound including a dedicated subwoofer. Tablets, laptops, computer monitors are inferior. (I do have a computer attached to the TV, in addition to the Sky box, but seldom use it other than as a Freeview recorder to supplement Sky, or as a DVD player for DD/DW stuff.)

For internetting, I use a 22 inch monitor, in portrait mode. The TV screen would be crap at this, a landscape mode monitor would be OK but inferior, a tablet would be inferior due to relatively small screen and no proper keyboard.

I don't play games.

I don't own a smartphone or tablet, and feel sorry for people who regularly have to use such puny devices for any screen-based activity. (I do own a netbook which is my holiday screen, and DW smartphone and tablet were useful when hanging around a hospital for a few days.)

My telly's still square. My PVR gave up the ghost a couple of years ago. My broadband speed is approximately that of an aging carthorse. I will still be watching programmes when they are broadcast for some time yet.

I quite like the bbc.

My parents will (I hope!) still be watching TV in 10 years' time, especially my Mum who doesn't like new technology.

I know lots of people both my own age and older people who watch lots of TV; and they listen to the radio all the time (at work or when driving for example). I know this because it forms quite a lot of their conversation.

I can see tv changing. Not being completely defunct though.

Our tv broke 3 years ago and I haven't got round to replacing it. We don't miss it because we are nearly always out. But I do watch tv on the internet (usually old or US series) and the children do watch DVDs. I can't see us never wanting to watch anything at all.

gosh, I feel so old hat reading this. We just have freeview, no recording machine or anything. This week we will watch: Person of Interest, Downton, Autumnwatch, Ripper Street, Under the Dome, Grand Designs, Marvel: Agents of Shield and I was glued to GBBO. DD watches Cbeebies (and I'm very excited that Katie Morag is coming soon). I listen to Radio 4 and DH sometimes has Radio 1 on in the car. We do watch box sets and buy films quite often, and we still have out video recorder so DD watches a few old Disney videos and kids stuff like Bagpuss that I pick up in charity shops. I also watch all big events on the Beeb, if we don't get into town to see them, like Remembrance Day or the Royal Wedding.

But we just have one TV and I hate TVs in bedrooms or the kitchen. Occasionally I have watched something on my laptop but I don't really like it. When DD is older I am sure we will have a 2nd TV, but not in her bedroom, maybe in the kitchen. I like the idea of TV being a sociable thing.

harticus

no she isn't, I never listen to the radio either.

I watch TV on our large television, anything else isn't s good. And yes I still watch a lot of live tv, anything else I record.

I think fictional programmes will all have pretty much died out. I reckon by 2023, it'll mostly be reality shows of one kind or another, whether they be documentaries, game/quiz shows, big brother/get me out of here style programmes, sport or news. Even now, that's sometimes all that is on of an evening on the 'top' 5 channels....

I said a few years ago that it was on the way out and got firmly told not to be an idiot! Still think I'm right though. So YANBU!

For absolutely years we have watched programmes on the computer via the TV. We have an HDMI cable connecting TV to PC and use absolutely free sites such as watchtvseries.ch/.

we can watch any tv series currently running on UK or US tv, with the bonus that we dont have adverts and still get to see it on the main TV screen. cannot believe people still pay for subscription services when its all available so easily.

BTW, we're not techno nuts so if we can do it anyone can.

we also benefit from being able to watch the latest movies free far earlier than others can get them through subscription.

We have radically changed how we watch tv in the last few years, I suspect like many people.

We use the tv most night, but pretty much always to stream stuff from Netflix, usually us dramas, which are excellent. I can't believe the dross we used to watch tbh. And adverts! Who on earth still watches those?

I disagree completely that fictional tv is dying out. Actually I think American tv drama is having something of a golden age - lots and lots of brilliant series on offer now. Much better than what Hollywood is churning out IMO.

I feel that we get excellent value from my TV licence fee. DD still watches a lot of CBBC and most of what we watch is on the BBC. We probably watch recorded programmes more than live TV, but I would hate to have every programme I watch interrupted by adverts, even if we can fast forward through them.

For most people the £2.78 a week the licence fee costs is negligible, and the over 75s don't have to pay anyway.

I still prefer to watch programmes on the TV than on my laptop.

I don't think tv is dying out at all in fact, and we actively avoid the situation described in the op, where everyone is sat on their own device doing their own thing. Dcs might think differently when they are teenagers, but dh and I won't do that, it seems a bit unsociable to me. Like everyone eating at different times.

Yes Fruitssalad we are antisocial. It's an autism household