Sentences with phrase «than watching tv»

For us, this served three purposes: 1) getting the big black rectangle out of sight when you first walk into our home, 2) making it easier to watch TV when it's light out (it was across from our big front windows), and 3) hopefully making it so we spent more time conversing and reading rather than watching TV.

As we rely on our devices and laptops more and more — for work, school and staying in touch with friends and relatives — connectivity is about a lot more than watching TV and playing video games.

While this closely aligns with watching television, I like to separate it out because watching a sporting event is a different experience than watching TV.

Did you know that 2/3 of Gen Y's spend more time on WiFi than watching TV?

This post says what I felt so well doing what I love while appearing to have «no life,» — who cares what others think; I feel passion and purpose when I'm doing my work, and that is intensely more satisfying than watching TV etc..

This engages your brain far more than watching TV, as you have to constantly react to the changing events of the game.

Spending 2 - 3 hours once a month at my PC poring over screeners, financials, and updating spreadsheets is no thrill ride, but it's a better use of my time than watching TV or idle web surfing.

Whether consumers are reading — rather than watching TV on their tablet or playing a video game on their TV — is what really matters.

I would rather be reading than watching TV, I would love to find someone who is...

Does cuddling up with a good book, and your feller, appeal to you more than watching tv?

It's much more fun than watching TV alone.

I coax her to make healthy choices, and make sure she's playing more than watching TV..

This will inevitably put you in a better mood than watching TV or spending the evening thinking about the week ahead (unless making a task list for the office helps, in which case, make 20 minutes for that too).

MONDAY, July 5, 2010 (Health.com)-- Parents who believe that playing video games is less harmful to their kids» attention spans than watching TV may want to reconsider — and unplug the Xbox.

From Lise of Veggie - Bento — «Yes, some days I am an obsessive whack - job and spend an hour making an intricate lunch (rather than watching tv, reading, playing games, etc), but most often, I spend 5 extra minutes smashing a cookie cutter around.

But rather than watch TV while they study, students today get a significant portion of their entertainment from web videos.

Better yet, maybe the family can do something other than watch TV, like play a game together.

Then I'd hit my own bed with a book, rather than watch TV or movies, which several studies reveal will make you feel too keyed up to wind down.

Do something relaxing before bed rather than watch tv such as talking to someone at home, read a book, take a bath

Well traveled, like to read rather than watch TV unless it's a good film.

Rather listen to music than watch tv.

Ilike to read more than watch tv.

But Steve refuses to spring for cable access, because he would rather his daughters read books than watch TV.

More people are surfing the Internet rather than watch tv the latest numbers reveal even more time will be spent online and even less will read the papers and magazine less subscriber based interest magazines.

My one and only comment on here is, first off thank you to Sarah Logan Wilson for writing this article if you are the author and especially if you are the one who did all the research, I'm sure that most people on here talking bad about it have done none of their own other than watch tv!

The time when Jack and Susan have dinner together and talk about their days rather than watch TV in silence.

I'm quite content to flitter around on the internet rather than watch TV... dream about tropical shopping holidays rather than camping expeditions... and curl up in bed at 9.30 pm at night.

Not exact matches

AT&T (t) unveiled DirecTV Now in November, offering subscribers access to watch more than 100 cable TV channels over the Internet starting at $ 35 a month.

Earlier this year, a survey suggested almost one in four Canadians were spending more time watching online video over the course of a day than time on the couch in front of their TV.

We may not all buy the same Michael Jackson albums or sit down at the same time to watch Cheers, but ultimately there are more consumers listening to music and watching TV shows than ever before.

Slingbox lets you watch live TV anywhere on practically anything, but it could cost you more than you think.

According to Nielsen, more than 85 % of both tablet and smartphone owners use their devices while watching TV.

Users were also asked how watching TV was better than viewing online video, and vice versa.

A survey released on Tuesday by TiVo (TIVO) finds that 9 out of 10 people are engaging in «binge viewing,» which the digital video recording company defines as watching more than three episodes of a particular TV show in one day.

My results, especially in discipline, freedom of expression, and clarity of ideas, are more valuable than almost anything else I can imagine otherwise doing in that time, certainly watching TV.

More than 50 million people are expected to watch in the U.S. alone (with groups of people likely watching on most pay - per - view TVs) and millions more could see the match across the world.

According to Nielsen, the movies have pulled in more than one billion viewers since they were originally shown in theaters, making it one of the most - watched movie franchises in TV history.

No one was more surprised than me (for some context, heretofore, some of my favorite weekend activities included binge watching TV and eating take - out food).

Greenfield said passionate sports fans are focused on their mobile or tablet during commercial breaks rather than watching ads on TV, so it creates a new way to monetize viewers who are less and less interested in ad spots.

When CBS debuts its hit TV drama CSI this fall, no one will be watching more closely than Laura Udall.

Switzerland is also similar to many countries in that digital media has become marketers» focus, as marketing experts realize that consumers are now spending more time online than reading magazines or watching TV.

More than 71 million Americans watched election night coverage on broadcast and cable TV this week, with CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC pulling in more than 31 million viewers combined during primetime in a record night for cable news.

That's why we watch TV and eat donuts at night rather than when we first wake up.

Aereo says the antennas it uses to capture broadcast signals are legally no different than to the ones people already use to watch TV in their own homes.

Meanwhile on the TV side, the site TorrentFreak found that for the third year running, HBO's Game of Thrones is the most pirated program of 2014 with more than 8 million downloads from BitTorrent, followed by AMC's The Walking Dead (4.2 million), and CBS's The Big Bang Theory (3.6 million), the consistently most watched cable drama and network comedy.

Overall, streaming video from a service like Netflix looks sharper than cable TV, despite the fact I'm watching both in the same 1920 x 1080 resolution.

If they're willing to pay to watch a fight on TV, they'll be willing to pay for a feeling like they're at the fight with an experience that's better than if they had the financial resources to buy a seat at the arena.»

To put that in perspective, that's more than the combined revenue contribution of Apple's iPad and «other products» division, the latter consisting of AirPods, Apple Watch, Apple TV, iPod Touch, and Beats.

Being his company's main spokesman for decades in a province that watches more TV than any other has made him as well known as singer Gilles Vigneault.

«The younger and more valuable demographics are seeking their entertainment elsewhere, and watching less TV than ever before» said Ian Schafer, chairman of Deep Focus, a New York - based ad agency.