TV - What do you do?

Been thinking about dumping Sky as we hardly ever watch anything that's not on Terrestrial Freeview.
The thing we'd miss the most would be the Sky + recorder, there must be a non subscription alternative?

 

We subscribe , suckers that we are Virgin with TiVo ....easy life my husband gets to watch all the UFC's etc ....if it was just me I would just have a freeview

 

Why do you have Silvers avatar?
PS i find the other way, hardly ever watch terrestrial

 

What's a UFC?

 

you can get freeview recorder box with + n stuff

 

No TV at all, I bet you switch it on, then don't watch it. All those annoying adverts...
The next generation (mine anyway) don't watch it. They watch films and documentary offerings on the web.

 

Has TV not become a means to get millions of people to pay to watch a football match?

 

A Humax PVR with a Freeview tuner does much the thing.

 

your right ,i dont watch ours much , no recorder , betty watches some stuff but mainly its a bit like tlb i have it on in case i miss sumat

 

I've just got a recordable freeview box. Use it loads - it's fab

 

Our tv signal is awful so my freeview doesn't often work. I've got a now tv box thing and watch bits and bobs on catch up channels through the interweb.

We never had a video recorder when I was a kid so I never got I to the habit of recording stuff.

Anything I want to watch but miss is usually repeated 100 times anyway so it's no drama to me.

Not watched anything this week

 

we have only the free channels ,it`s either that or French tv...

You do get used to it ,if you want to see a series we stream it or burn it on a disc and watch it on the tv...

If we miss a program like last weeks question time then it`s the I player..

why pay?

 

My mother on the other hand never turns the thing off and records stuff all the time. Don't know how she has time to watch any of it.

 

have you got a 4G filter ? if not id get one , gov are supposed to be dishing them out but i got one from maplins for £8.99 works a treat and it stops interference from 4g phones n stuff .

 

I'm not too fussed really. There's very little I'd like to watch anyway

 

Windows 7 Home Premium Media Centre with a Blackgold dual DVB-T tuner. 5TB of hard drive, AMD 6 core 3.8GHz processor hooked to a 40 inch TV. £140 Nvidia video card.
Mostly used for watching Youtube on a non-capped Demon Internet Small Business account (been with them for 20 years so they let me blag the business account after going over 60GB a month a few times) . Also plays video games quite nicely at 60+FPS on a 1920x1080 40" Sony TV used as a monitor.

Also a £50 DVB-S2 tuner kit from B&Q for watching HD channels and Freeview via same TV. (hardly used except for NHK HD (japanese english language))

 

i've heard of B&Q , the rest went over my head.

 

We use a virgin tivo box. Its great.

 

yeh but yeh but the little fings will be clearer n bettera

 

It's like KFC but from Uzbekistan.