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| pcernie wrote: Binge watching is the way forward - you can decide whether to stick with a show, and that's never been more important. I've been able to tell people about great shows they wouldn't have tried otherwise. Next to nobody watches original broadcast stuff and chats about it now, especially with so many shows being American, on different channels and services, and TV Marmite. And that's before box recording... I've also gone back to shows that were utterly dire in, say, their first five episodes. Plus Netflix and the like have brought back much-loved shows that the studios hobbled on release. | |
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I think all of my wife's family and most of my colleagues watch broadcast TV. Very few people over here pay for Sky (I don't know a single person who has Sky), a few have cable, but for the Internet package and none take the premium TV channels. About 4 colleagues have Amazon Prime Video.
A couple download OV series over the Internet, because it is hard to get any series with OV here - I'm so used to dubbed versions of US shows, that it seems funny now, when I hear the original voices.
In the evening, we'll watch whatever comes on, because it is no hassle to turn the TV on, but spending ages rifling through Amazon Prime looking for something to watch is a hassle. We often moan that there is nothing on TV, but we'll end up watching something or we'll turn it off and play a board game or something or go to bed.