|
View Poll Results: Do you watch more or less TV since you got TiVo (or any DVR)?
|
|
More TV
|
  
|
29 |
72.50% |
|
Less TV
|
  
|
7 |
17.50% |
|
Same amount of TV
|
  
|
4 |
10.00% |
|
I dont watch TV
|
  
|
0 |
0% |
|
I don't have a DVR
|
  
|
0 |
0% |
|
I don't really know
|
  
|
0 |
0% |
|
|
|
09-15-2007, 10:56 PM
|
#1
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Wild Wild West
Posts: 578
|
More or less TV?
Simple question for DVR owners (TiVo or otherwise  )
Do you feel you watch more or less TV than before you got your DVR?
Edit- Poll was added 9/26/07. Please come back and post if you hit this thread before the poll was added. This is a fun one!
Posts #1-40 were up before the poll was added.
__________________
"Good, because we like you too much to see you banned." --JustAllie
Yes, she is a Very Useful Member." --MickeS
Last edited by Dawny : 09-26-2007 at 11:38 AM.
|
|
|
|
09-15-2007, 11:01 PM
|
#2
|
|
I get paid 2watch TV
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Posts: 3,721
|
Definitely more.
Pre-TiVo/DVR, it was so much of a chore to program VCR's, rotate tapes, keep track of tapes and watch recorded tapes.
Now it's too easy, just schedule a SP or two (or 40x3) and watch at my leisure.
I find myself watching shows I wouldn't have bothered with back in the VCR days.
phox
__________________
Panasonic Viera TH-46PZ800U 46" Plasma HDTV
S3-65 HD Hours-Lifetime
TiVo HD 20 HD Hours
DirecTV HR21-700 30-50 HD Hours
DirecTV HR20-100 30-50 HD Hours
Harmony 880 Remote Control
|
|
|
|
|
09-15-2007, 11:02 PM
|
#3
|
|
ɹǝsn pǝɹǝʇsıƃǝɹ
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 9,324
|
I would guess probably more shows, however the time used is more efficient as I can watch on my schedule and also zip past the commercials.
__________________
Creator of
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
and
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
S2 80 HR - 3 Yr Prepaid
S2 526 HR - Lifetime
XBL Gamertag - UnseenThought
|
|
|
|
|
09-15-2007, 11:13 PM
|
#4
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Pittsburgh
Posts: 2,259
|
More TV in much less time. Baseball game now takes less than 2 hours. Jeapordy takes 17 minutes. Six o'clock news (one hour show) takes 15 minutes. Etc.
__________________
Comcast, Cox, TW, Charter and BHN are cabal companies.
(That is not a spelling error. Check the definition.)
|
|
|
|
|
09-15-2007, 11:19 PM
|
#5
|
|
TiVo Forum Special Member
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: AZ
Posts: 20,607
TC CLUB MEMBER
|
Less. Definitely.
|
|
|
|
09-15-2007, 11:27 PM
|
#6
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Lawrenceville, NJ, USA
Posts: 968
|
Less bad TV but more in total. I don't surf for something to watch any longer, simple watch what I want when I want.
__________________
Sony KDS-60A2000
Sony KDL-46V3000
2 x TiVo S3 HD
2 x TiVo S2 Dual Tuner
Sony PS3 (Blu-Ray)
Logitech Harmony 880
Verizon FiOS - No Copy Protection :)
|
|
|
|
|
09-16-2007, 09:25 AM
|
#7
|
|
Enlightened
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 7,692
|
I watch less. No more tv as background noise, no more watching crap cause there's nothing else on.
__________________
"I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle"
|
|
|
|
|
09-16-2007, 09:31 AM
|
#8
|
|
Un-Registered User
Join Date: May 2005
Location: USA
Posts: 8,928
TC CLUB MEMBER
|
Less.. I can watch the show I taped when there's nothing good on TV. Before TiVo, If I'm boring then I watch a show I didn't care.
__________________
I'm collecting My Coke Rewards codes until Dec 31, 2009 If you have any, please PM me with codes. Thanks.
My Wii code 2359 0697 5608 4017 Please PM your code and I'll add yours.
|
|
|
|
|
09-16-2007, 09:32 AM
|
#9
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 1,528
|
More TV. I use to miss episodes and not care. Now they are all sitting there lined up for me to watch.
|
|
|
|
|
09-16-2007, 09:36 AM
|
#10
|
|
Workin in a Coalmine
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: PA
Posts: 6,318
|
Definitely more. There's always something on the TiVo that I like watching and want to watch. Not necessarily a good thing...
|
|
|
|
|
09-16-2007, 10:06 AM
|
#11
|
|
huh?
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Wichita, KS
Posts: 2,456
|
More, a lot more!!
__________________
S3 HD DT 300 hr
S2 DT 80 hr
S2 ST 80 hr
TivoToGo Fan
S2 DT 80 hr (dead)
Wii Code: 5203 4442 9491 7775
|
|
|
|
|
09-16-2007, 10:44 AM
|
#12
|
|
Why yes, we can
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: boston'ish
Posts: 2,588
|
wow, a lot of caveats here, but the summary: The same amount, but smarter
My hours in a day are the same, and I might even watch a tick less in number of minutes due to skipping commercials, but the same number of shows.
However the biggest change is that I never channel surf for something on, I always have something I want to watch waiting for me with 2 Tivos
|
|
|
|
|
09-16-2007, 11:29 AM
|
#13
|
|
Lawyer & Blogger
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Ft. Lauderdale
Posts: 29,590
TC CLUB MEMBER
|
Less, because I spend all my time on TCF instead.
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
.
|
|
|
|
|
09-16-2007, 11:35 AM
|
#14
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 2,140
|
Much more. Being forced to sit through a non-TiVo experience makes you want to walk away.
|
|
|
|
|
09-16-2007, 01:52 PM
|
#15
|
|
old fart
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: East Moline, Ill.
Posts: 6,521
|
This would have been a good poll (thought I suspect it's been done before)
Without question.....more....  ...(unless I figure in all the commercials I miss, then subtract those minutes from all the extra minutes of programming I watch because of TiVo....then multiply by.....oh.....never mind.....
__________________
"What? Did you just die and go to moron heaven?" - Gene from "Life on Mars"
Original S3 (w/750GB weaKnees Seagate DB35 upgrade)
TiVo HD (w/500GB My DVR Expander)
|
|
|
|
|
09-16-2007, 02:52 PM
|
#16
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Durham, NC
Posts: 3,785
|
More. I still leave HGTV on in the background on the weekends, and anything that was on after 10pm never used to get watched. We only had one VCR, so we really had to pick and choose, plus we often missed stuff because tape labeling was a bear. With the TiVo we just let it record stuff and watch when we can. The only thing I have to do is manage the season passes a bit to make sure stuff that only shows once has higher priority than stuff that repeats.
|
|
|
|
|
09-16-2007, 06:01 PM
|
#17
|
|
what ru lookin at?
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 3,817
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by phox_mulder
Definitely more.
Pre-TiVo/DVR, it was so much of a chore to program VCR's, rotate tapes, keep track of tapes and watch recorded tapes.
Now it's too easy, just schedule a SP or two (or 40x3) and watch at my leisure.
I find myself watching shows I wouldn't have bothered with back in the VCR days.
phox
|
+1
And I'll add that with the ability to xfer shows to my computer for extra storage, it's easy to keep track of and watch more shows.
__________________
The Man Prayer: I'm a man ...... I can change ...... If I have to ...... I guess.
|
|
|
|
|
09-16-2007, 08:05 PM
|
#18
|
|
TiVo Forum Special Member
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: AZ
Posts: 20,607
TC CLUB MEMBER
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Turtleboy
Less, because I spend all my time on TCF instead.
|
Same here recently. I think that'll change when the new shows start.
|
|
|
|
|
09-17-2007, 12:41 AM
|
#19
|
|
^^MacGvyer^^
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: St. Paul, MN
Posts: 3,451
|
More: I am on top of new shows, catch a lot more movies (pay channels only, as "edited for time and content" bugs me), but definitely more.
And sports is much more of a "when I feel like it" rather than "when it is on" type of thing. Can't wait for hockey season, hoping for tons of HD!!!
|
|
|
|
|
09-17-2007, 01:47 AM
|
#20
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 20
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Dawny
Simple question for DVR owners (TiVo or otherwise )
Do you feel you watch more or less TV than before you got your DVR? |
I watch for about the same amount of time, but I enjoy it much much more.
|
|
|
|
|
09-17-2007, 09:37 AM
|
#21
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Wild Wild West
Posts: 578
|
MickesS and TurtleBoy-- Ever cruise TCF while watching tv?
__________________
"Good, because we like you too much to see you banned." --JustAllie
Yes, she is a Very Useful Member." --MickeS
|
|
|
|
|
09-17-2007, 10:50 AM
|
#22
|
|
adorkable
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 20,018
|
with a DVR I watch better (at least from my perspective ) TV and do not miss out on so many new things since I have 4 tuners on the main TV and just setup all the new shows to see what I want to actually watch and what I will just delete
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
How quickly we think the world owes us something we didn't know existed ten minutes ago.
|
|
|
|
|
09-17-2007, 01:23 PM
|
#23
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Rochester NY
Posts: 1,020
|
I would have to say more. Because of my work schedule everything is time shifted and I find myself watching TV at fairly weird times. Also I have found that by skipping commercials and grouping episodes together I watch/enjoy some series I wouldn't even both watching without a DVR.
Thanks,
__________________
atmuscarella
R.I.P. - 04/04 - Dish Network 510 - 120 GB HD
09/05 - Humax T-800 - 300 GB HD
08/06 - TiVo TCD540080 - 300 GB HD
05/08 - TiVo HD
06/08 - Panasonic Viera TH-50PZ800U 50" Plazma!!
|
|
|
|
|
09-17-2007, 06:04 PM
|
#24
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Hockeytown
Posts: 449
|
More, Tivo is a lot more convenient than a VCR.
|
|
|
|
|
09-17-2007, 06:14 PM
|
#25
|
|
Resident modern nut
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 6,411
|
More, because I'm not limited to whatever's on during Prime Time.
__________________
My Tivo is too small!
BEEP
|
|
|
|
|
09-21-2007, 05:46 PM
|
#26
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Wild Wild West
Posts: 578
|
Anyone else?
__________________
"Good, because we like you too much to see you banned." --JustAllie
Yes, she is a Very Useful Member." --MickeS
|
|
|
|
|
09-22-2007, 06:22 PM
|
#27
|
|
Advanced TiVoOligan
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 782
|
More!
First, there's a big time investment in TiVo altogether! Wishlists, suggestions, checking out all the various time-wasters/spenders that come with TiVo, much more hyperfocus on TV WITH TiVo.
Next, I have to either watch the things recorded, worry about getting a bigger disk (usual male obsession), or clean up the Now Playing list.
All-in-all, much more time in watching much more television, and much more time invested in planning what to watch.
And, natch, I MUST watch after all the money I have spent!
Before TiVo -- none of this mattered, even though the content was more meaningful!!
And YOU??? How has YOUR viewing changed??
__________________
Series 2 DT, BH-SA8300HD, Vizio 32
SVR Series 2 (retired) - Humax S2 (ret) - 2-SVR1 (ret)
|
|
|
|
|
09-22-2007, 10:38 PM
|
#28
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Wild Wild West
Posts: 578
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by megory
More! ...And YOU??? How has YOUR viewing changed??
|
Less TV but with more intention. I must add a caveat; I got my TiVo roughly the same time I had my first baby, and now we have 2 little ones, so my TV time is diminished with or without TiVo. I do not think I'd watch TV at all right now without the aid of a dvr. I like to think I watch better TV because of TiVO. No more grazing or surfing. Just a few programs (6 or 7 between hubby and me) on SP and specials here and there. A few movies. 47 episodes of Little Bear ( 3 1/2 year old). That reminds me, I need to burn those to disk and get my space back!  I *love* my TiVo.
__________________
"Good, because we like you too much to see you banned." --JustAllie
Yes, she is a Very Useful Member." --MickeS
|
|
|
|
|
09-22-2007, 11:13 PM
|
#29
|
|
The Question
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 6,359
|
Much, much more.
|
|
|
|
|
09-24-2007, 11:40 AM
|
#30
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 1,016
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by phox_mulder
Definitely more.
Pre-TiVo/DVR, it was so much of a chore to program VCR's, rotate tapes, keep track of tapes and watch recorded tapes.
|
This sums me up exactly. I watch way way way more than when I had to manually set recordings every day-that process started taking up to 20 minutes a day, and was no fun at all.
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
