Partly this is because nobody has made the mythical Apple TV yet -- not the box product we've got, but the actual "this is a functioning computer that does computer things and also does TV things, and does them all really well". So there are still things for which the satellite/cable set top box is the best viewing method even though we have an attached computer. Which is kind of bizarre but there you go. (And very irritating, the set of programs available on catchup is different on the STB and the computer, and neither set is a subset of the other).
And I'm another person who has no idea what the term "original TV series" means. Is "Orange is the New Black" an original TV series? Is The Guild?
We watch little enough TV (it rarely goes over 3 hours a week unless we're working through a box set, and even then rarely over five) that the current process goes - work out what we want to watch, work out the best means of getting hold of it, set all that up. Amazingly far from my childhood of "turn on the TV and see what's on". But when I'm doing that, I prioritise watching on the TV because it's the best viewing experience.
But when kids leave home, why would they ever get a TV at all at this point? It's kind of like landline phones were a few years ago.
I think there are advantages from a bandwidth-efficiency point of view for Cable boxes and the like - we don't seem to have solved multicast sufficiently well to serve Eastenders to its audience all at once over IP. Or, at least, not as far as I'm aware. Possibly when IPv6 comes in :-)
As to why have TVs - in my case "It's a 42" screen that's set up at a comfortable position to watch from the sofa, and the surround sound is set up to work with it."
We've just bought a Roku streaming stick and we're very happy with it. Does Netflix, iPlayer & other UK channel catch-ups, YouTube, a long tail of total dross we've only briefly investigated, and appears to have apps for streaming files from a local computer that we've not tried yet.
And I'm another person who has no idea what the term "original TV series" means. Is "Orange is the New Black" an original TV series? Is The Guild?
We watch little enough TV (it rarely goes over 3 hours a week unless we're working through a box set, and even then rarely over five) that the current process goes - work out what we want to watch, work out the best means of getting hold of it, set all that up. Amazingly far from my childhood of "turn on the TV and see what's on". But when I'm doing that, I prioritise watching on the TV because it's the best viewing experience.
But when kids leave home, why would they ever get a TV at all at this point? It's kind of like landline phones were a few years ago.
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As to why have TVs - in my case "It's a 42" screen that's set up at a comfortable position to watch from the sofa, and the surround sound is set up to work with it."
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