How Much TV Do You Watch Per Day (On Average)?

[Captante]

Woudn't the computer ad blocker work the same way? Or do smart TVs do anything weird with the hdmi feed and inject it's own ads? My TV is over 10 years old so it basically just works as a monitor and never really had any issues. Using a RPI right now and it's kinda slow though, I may eventually get a NUC or something.

It depends .... I have a newer Chromecast (the one with Google TV) and if I use it the old-fashioned way and "cast" Youtube vids from my browser on a Windows PC to my TV it blocks most ads just like on the desktop.

On the other hand if I use the Google TV menu with the included remote to watch YT it's ad after ad after annoying ad... essentially unwatchable. (same with the "free" Xfinity streaming box) Ads are also an annoying problem when casting from an Android phone/tablet or an IOS device.

 

[nakedfrog]

1-2 hours of passive video content consumption, to include YouTube. Typically watch a video when I eat dinner, and then about an hour later in the evening as I'm winding down for the day.

 

[ultimatebob]

Woudn't the computer ad blocker work the same way? Or do smart TVs do anything weird with the hdmi feed and inject it's own ads? My TV is over 10 years old so it basically just works as a monitor and never really had any issues. Using a RPI right now and it's kinda slow though, I may eventually get a NUC or something.

I'm still blocking ads at the browser level, so I don't have anything for blocking ads on the TV's... yet.

 

[KidNiki1]

average 1 hour of streaming content watched on the TV per day i guess. most days, none and then a couple days of catching up on subscribed/followed stuff. (youtube, netflix, hulu, etc.)

actual live TV or cable TV, zero hours. (maybe 1 or 2 games during football season, mayyyybe)

sometimes when i take a break from listening to podcasts at work, i turn on a movie or TV series for background noise, but its stuff i have seen before, so i'm not sure how much that counts as actual *watching*. it's just there so i can drown out my co-workers.

 

[MtnMan]

Woudn't the computer ad blocker work the same way? Or do smart TVs do anything weird with the hdmi feed and inject it's own ads? My TV is over 10 years old so it basically just works as a monitor and never really had any issues. Using a RPI right now and it's kinda slow though, I may eventually get a NUC or something.

Ad blocker on my computer is an add-on to my browser, FireFox in my case. My smart Fire Stick is running something else, and my smart TV is running an Android OS.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Ad blocker on my computer is an add-on to my browser, FireFox in my case. My smart Fire Stick is running something else, and my smart TV is running an Android OS.

Oh so it's not running through PC and through a separate device? Gotcha. I was worried maybe smart TVs hijack the hdmi input to inject their own commercials or something.

 

[Captante]

Oh so it's not running through PC and through a separate device? Gotcha. I was worried maybe smart TVs hijack the hdmi input to inject their own commercials or something.

Plenty of excellent reasons to NOT buy any "Smart" TV but far as I know they aren't QUITE that bad yet! (also it would likely bork HDCP)

Problem is that most smart TV's don't really get updates. Like at all.

What could possibly go wrong?

 

[SKORPI0]

2-3 hours. News/Documentaries.

 

[snoopy7548]

Maybe two hours, but I just watch movies most of the time. I haven't had a cable subscription in about 8 years.

I just started watching old episodes of American Gladiators and it's as awesome as I remember.

 

[nakedfrog]

Maybe two hours, but I just watch movies most of the time. I haven't had a cable subscription in about 8 years.

I just started watching old episodes of American Gladiators and it's as awesome as I remember.

I've been thinking of firing up some old Ninja Warrior/Sasuke episodes lately

 

[Muse]

Daily news (local and national/international). On weekends often some sports. 60 Minutes Sunday evening, usually. Not often anything else.

 

[Stiff Clamp]

None. Don't have a tv provider.
I go through a lot of youTube uploads per day though. So if a media company wants to upload there . . .

 

[snoopy7548]

I've been thinking of firing up some old Ninja Warrior/Sasuke episodes lately

I'm also watching American Ninja Warrior. The original is in the queue.