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How much time did you spend on this per week?

>>tenebr+(OP)
i don't know really how much it was back then, but not to much. there wasn't more than one or two shows in a day that i was interested in, often it was less, so maybe 5-10 hours per week?

i can tell you that now i spend an average of 1 to 1.5 hours per day watching movies, series or youtube. there are to many other interesting things to do that i also want to spend time on (like discussing on HN :-)

>>tenebr+(OP)
This was extremely common especially once cable boxes started to get more advanced guides and built in dvr. The TV guide just became a catalog of what you wanted to watch. All watching you'd do completely inside recordings. It was nice when they added their own episode catalog (on-demand I believe it was called, before we started calling it streaming) and would skip the dvr recording of an episode and go straight to their on-demand one. Or when you started watching something mis-show and the cable box would offer to restart from beginning from their on-demand offering.

>>tenebr+(OP)
Worth noting that, in some countries, TV guides published numeric codes for each programme. These codes could be punched directly into a video recorder to set up a recording (instead of having to manually select the channel, the date and the start/end times).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_recorder_scheduling_co...