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How do you like to watch a TV series? |
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 | Blair | | Resistance is Futile! |
| Registered: October 30, 2008 |  Posts: 1,249 |
| | Posted: | | | | In the early days of TV, you either caught an episode or had to wait for the rerun. No other option. VCRs made when you want to watch an episode more convenient, but it was still common to watch the episode by the week's end. And now there are DVRs--where storage capacity is much larger--and DVDs and streaming which give you an entire season or series whenever you want to watch any or all of the episodes. But with all of these options, which is your favorite (not necessarily most convenient or most often done) way of watching a TV series? Personally, I still like the old method of making sure to turn my TV on at the right time and catch the new episode of the week. If I know I won't be there, I'll record and watch it by the end of the next day, and if for some reason I didn't have access to set and record, I search online for it. I eagerly wait for it to air, but once it has, I don't want to wait any longer! Having to wait for each episode makes me enjoy them more, even though the episode may also be disappointing making me wish I could have skipped that week. A plot is much more gripping when I don't have access yet to any future episodes. It's the last episode of the season; the biggest question of the episode and possibly the season is about to be answered.... and then... "TO BE CONTINUED" "  Agh! No!!!! Not fair!  "  I bring this up because I am rewatching a TV series, and setting aside the fact that I know everything that is going to happen already, not being forced to wait has made the series feel instead like a single 80-hour movie. But we are all DVD collectors, so most of us likely have a TV season or ten in our collections, which makes me wonder if others think like I do. So, how about you? | | | If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
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| | Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,741 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm an avid TV series collector. But I'm also an avid TV series watcher. And I have no intention of waiting quite some time to get a new TV series on my home television where it will be dubbed on top of that. So I watch all my TV shows a few days after the original US/UK airing through "alternative channels" and if I enjoy the show, it will land on my shelves eventually. Funny thing is, people don't seem to want my money. The industry is still stuck in their regional thinking where a non-US citizen cannot easily (or legally) buy shows from the US iTunes store or watch stuff on Hulu. And even the DVD/BR marketing is involved in this. First with the totally pointless invention of region codes for both DVD and Blu-ray and secondly with their delayed release of the seasons after the season has ended on television. Mike & Molly season 3? Available for Pre-order. This item will be released on August 20, 2013. Arrow season 1? Available for Pre-order. This item will be released on September 17, 2013. Elementary season 1? Available for Pre-order. This item will be released on August 27, 2013. White Collar season 4? This title has not yet been released. Switched at Birth season 1? The show is well in its second season and yet the first season has only been released as a first half, called "Volume One". Person of Interest season 2? Available for Pre-order. This item will be released on September 3, 2013. And that's the Amazon.com release dates. I don't even want to know when it's going to come out in UK or even Germany. I basically started watching stuff by other means around teh time the second season of LOST started to air. Even though I hate the show with all my heart now, back then I didn't want to wait one minute more than necessary to catch a new episode. This morning (it's 9:20am here) I got the newest episode of Burn Notice, The Daily Show and The Almighty Johnsons (a show about norse gods from New Zealand). I probably would have never even heard abou the last one without the webbie and I doubt it's ever going to air in Germany. | | | Karsten
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| | Registered: March 29, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,479 |
| | | Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,195 |
| | Posted: | | | | All of the above, it depends on what I can get.  | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
| | Registered: March 26, 2009 | | Posts: 1,387 |
| | Posted: | | | | I will watch each episode week by week and if I like it I will purchase the season on DVD. |
| | Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,819 |
| | Posted: | | | | I never watch TV shows on TV when they air.
I buy the season when it's released to DVD/Blu-ray and watch at my leisure.
I'm a very good judge of what I will like so I've yet to buy something I've not seen that I've hated.
Also - this keeps my buying under control. If I watched more, I'd buy more and I don't want to do that!
Constantly buying means never re-watching. This made me completely re-assess my TV show buying. |
| | Registered: May 26, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,878 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm with Pantheon. I never watch TV shows on TV when they air. I'm not willing to pay for cable or dish, and since I never got the digital antenna I don't receive broadcast. All I watch are DVDs.
The only station I miss having is KET (our PBS affiliate). For the most part, television is dreck. There are some good shows, true, but they are few and far between. And there are so many commercials! That's what's always so great about PBS is the lack of commercials (that, and the general quality of programming).
Now, of course, none of this is to say that I don't watch television shows. I'm an avid watcher of documentaries - nature, science, history, but all of those are generally not continuing from one episode to the next. If it's a series where each episode is self-contained (Nature, National Geographic, original Star Trek, Twilight Zone) then I don't mind watching an episode here, an episode there. If it's a continuing story (multi-episode docs like Planet Earth or Ken Burns Civil War, virtually any anime series, Lost, etc) then I want to watch it until it's done, or at least the season is over. | | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | I am a very avid TV Show watcher... whether on cable or on DVD. I buy all the sets I can to add to my collection. To me having them in my collection only means I have it to watch when I feel like watching it. I don't feel the need to rush and watch something as soon as I get it. And I don't mind watching a show for the 4th or 5th time if I feel like it even though I have other shows I haven't watched for the first time.
Matter of fact I am now in the middle of watching Smallville for the 5th time. | | | | Pete |
| | Registered: October 6, 2008 | | Posts: 1,932 |
| | Posted: | | | | I haven't followed a first-run TV series in the last 15 years--although I'm tempted to do so with SHIELD--but usually buy DVDs of shows and watch them a season at a time. Quoting Danae Cassandra: Quote:
... And there are so many commercials! That's what's always so great about PBS is the lack of commercials... Well, at least they put them all together, at the beginning and then again at the end.  |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 681 |
| | Posted: | | | | Nowadays I prefer to watch everything a season at a time (normally inside one week, depending on how much time I have on evenings...). I just purchased the third season of "Boardwalk Empire", and was again fighting the same thing: should I watch seasons 1 and 2 to get reacquainted to what has taken place previously, or should I start with S3 and trust that everything necessary comes back to me while watching... I'll give this a little thought and have a marathon this weekend anyway | | | Mika
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | I like the week to week if it's something new on TV.
But I have been known to knock out an entire season when that's an option.
The thing I used to do differently with discs was I would watch an entire season. Then move on to a different show when I was done. Even if I already have the next season of the first show. I guess it was a fun way to stretch out a really good series and not burn through it all in a week or two. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Danae Cassandra: Quote:
And there are so many commercials! That's why they invented DVRs. I watch most shows week to week, but I usually don't watch them 'live'. If I really, REALLY like a show, and the seasons/series sets are reasonably priced, I will buy them for binge-watching. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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| | Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 4,623 |
| | Posted: | | | | For me, I'd say it depends. Some shows I watch when they are aired, but I almost always record them, just like Martian. But after the first season(s) it gets harder to keep track of which channel is running new episodes and which channels are running reruns. And I end up saying "screw it" and either drop the show or wait for the DVD releases. Big Bang Theory is one example. I'm not trying to figure out which are new episodes, I'm waiting for season 6 on DVD.
Other shows I discover too late to watch them on TV. So I buy them on DVD. If the show has run its course I may well buy the complete set. Farscape would be an example of that. If I'm unsure I'll start with just season one and see how I like it. Just bought season one of Everwood. I have only seen the first four episodes, but I think there's a good chance that I'll buy at least season two as well. | | | My freeware tools for DVD Profiler users.
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Pantheon: Quote:
I never watch TV shows on TV when they air.
I buy the season when it's released to DVD/Blu-ray and watch at my leisure.
I'm a very good judge of what I will like so I've yet to buy something I've not seen that I've hated Pretty much the same for the vast majority of series (except that I'll watch Doctor Who on the TV as I can hardly visit forums without getting discussions and spoilers if I don't!) Also, like Pantheon, I don't think I've ever done a blind buy of a TV series and not enjoyed it Though I might watch 'disposable telly' (like quiz shows etc) with my wife as they happen/soon after recording I don't regard those as 'series' in the scope of the question! | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong | | | | Last edited: by Voltaire53 |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | TV on DVD instead of live TV, the main reason is I can watch what I want, when I want. Since I seldom watch a TV series on air for two reasons: 1) unlike years ago TV shows had fairly fixed schedule 2) episode are getting shorter and shorter, some as sort as 38 minutes, 22 minutes of commercials. I am just watching Marcus Welby, M.D. 49 plus minutes per episode and FBI, 51 plus minutes per episode. Watching a TV series on DVD I can scan past any previews of the previous episode and credits. And watch a whole season in a week. I just watched CH.OS.EN, Chosen. It was listed as a six episode series. As it turned out they stripped off any of the usual opening and closing credit per episodes and created one 128 minute movie. This works out since each episode is dependent on the previous one. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
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| | Registered: March 16, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 943 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Danae Cassandra: Quote:
For the most part, television is dreck. There are some good shows, true, but they are few and far between. And there are so many commercials! I agree. Most of television is crap. And, I think it's due to way too many frakkin' commercials. That and my favorite shows always getting cancelled! Commercials? Sometimes, I think the only reason for a show is to have a place to put all the commercials. If our cable company didn't have DVR, I probably wouldn't watch tv. Some of the first video I ever started buying was Star Trek(TOS). I noticed the average length was 52 minutes. Only 8 minutes of commercials. Can you believe it? Today, we are lucky if we get 40 minutes. 20 minutes of crap. One third of the hour is junk! I much prefer to DVR stuff. Then watch when I please. I love "zapping" out the commercials. And one other thing. I prefer DVDs, when I can get them, because there are no station logos or bottom-of-the-screen advertisements. The worst? The ones which tell you what show you are watching or put up stupid hashtags. | | | Just in from somewhere left of the middle of nowhere
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