<p>Just curious…how many TV sets do you have in your house…and why?</p>
<p>I’ll start. </p>
<p>We have one television. It’s in our family room and it’s where we all watch TV if we watch it at all. We have cable connections in our finished basement and master bedroom…but NO televisions. We have never felt the need for more than one television. Our kids never had televisions in their bedrooms (neither do we). If that one TV broke, we would just slog along without it until we found a bargain. </p>
<p>We are not opposed to watching TV…we DO watch TV.</p>
<p>We have one TV, in our living room, and have never had more than one TV. The previous owners had cable connections all over the house but we’ve never used them. Our 10-year-old TV went a bit flaky this summer and we replaced it with a nice flat-screen mounted on the wall. It is integrated into our audio and controlled by a computer system we set up with our sons. We use it far more often for big-screen watching of youtube videos and online movies and slideshows of vacation photos and cool visuals while we’re listening to music, than we do to watch anything on television.</p>
<p>OK, I’ll bite! My family is addicted to TV and it is my fault. I use to keep a TV on just for the noise when I lived alone or when my husband wasn’t home. Then I began to watch more and more. I always had a TV in the bedroom and the den, but when the kids were older we put a TV in the playroom and the kitchen. I love having one in the kitchen as it makes dinner preparation go faster!</p>
<p>We still watch TV as a family when we are all watching the same show; but with Tivo we seem to watch more TV than we use to.</p>
<p>We have 5 TVs - basement, kitchen, family room, study, master bedroom. Kids don’t have TV in their rooms, but they do watch some shows on their laptops. They are not allowed to watch TV from Mon to Thu until they go to college. I am a screen junky. Right now, I am watching the Batman movie on surfthechannel while I am surfing. At work, we have TVs on overhead permanently tuned to CNBC, I also have multiple screens on my desk.</p>
<p>we have two tvs- we didn’t have any for almost a year about 10 years ago- except my inlaws found out and were horrified :rolleyes:
So they gave my H a tv that is so old IT DOESNt HAVE A REMOTE CONTROL!
lol
He lives in the detached garage ( practically) so it stays out there- before he moved the workshop to the garage , it lived in the basement shop.</p>
<p>A few years after that we bought a tv that has a remote and everything- but since we live in the shadow of the television stations, doesn’t get good picture- but don’t have cable/satelite ( do watch tv on my laptop though)
never had tv in bedrooms-
this house is so small I think it was built before people wore clothes and there wouldn’t be room for entertainment centers!</p>
<p>I’m ashamed to say that we have 5 TVs - family room, our bedroom, kitchen, office and guest bedroom. I’m a TV junkie. I like to watch the news while I’m fixing dinner (thus the kitchen TV) and sometimes I try to multitask when I’m on the computer – like reading CC while watching Dancing With The Stars. And we put one in the guest bedroom for guests.</p>
<p>But DH and I have completely different taste in TV shows, so he watches the family room TV at night to get his fix of all the cable news/interview shows while I watch my faves in the bedroom.</p>
<p>Hey, at least I never let the kids have TVs in their bedrooms!</p>
<p>We actually have four. Not that we watch alot of mainstream tv, but it made sense given our lifestyle.</p>
<p>Set in living room has cable with the control box allowing for the limited additional “premium” services we have. It’s the main TV, most viewing done here.</p>
<p>Master bedroom has cable/with second control box. It’s there because wife is very early riser 4-4:30 am for work, and usually is upstairs at 9-9:30pm. This allows her to set the timer and finish what she was watching downstairs. The TV normally shuts itself off by the time I go to bed an hour or so later.</p>
<p>The kids are each connected to cable in their bedrooms, but non-premium basic package plan only. This costs us nothing, as we’re already paying for the incoming signal. I wired all the rooms when I had the walls open. Son will watch some sports, classical concerts alone when no one else is interested or the consensus downstairs is for something else. D is too mainstream, despises the bulk of our pbs/history/discovery type viewing habits. She watches what she deems “normal” TV. Warped child She’s the only one in the house that keeps a tv on for background noise. If we’re not watching, the set goes off.</p>
<p>Kitchen-I listen (don’t watch) while cooking. Sons will watch briefly while fixing a late night snack, but watch for 30 minutes at a time at most (one episode of something). I know that my younger son watches one episode of something there on Wed. nights (probably the Simpsons, but not sure). In fact, I think that is the only time that he really watches TV.</p>
<p>Master Bedroom-H and I watch the news or movies together on occasion.</p>
<p>Basement area-H watches occasionally while on the treadmill. This is a tiny set.</p>
<p>Playroom-Sons have some type of system hooked up (ie: playstation), but it really is not used much at all.</p>
<p>Study-This is H’s office and little personal space. While he is paying bills, or just in this little corner of his, he listens to sports here. This is a tiny set, that he has behind his desk, so he listens more than he watches TV.</p>
<p>We have two working ones. We have one that is almost 30 years old that is sitting in our bedroom but gets no reception as it’s not compatible with current technology. We really need to have a garage sale! The one upstairs is mostly used for video games and some TV and the one downstairs is used for actual television watching. While fewer people live here now, it was two TVs for our family of six.</p>
<p>I think we have two. Family room and second family room/sunroom. I cannot figure out how to turn on the sunroom TV. We have a connection in the master BR but no TV there at the moment. There is at least one junk TV in the garage awaiting electronics recycling – but without going to look I don’t know how many more there are! I know there is one because it came out of S1’s room this morning – so he can get into it for Thanksgiving break!</p>
<p>We have three. One in the family room (which is open to the kitchen - I too like to listen to the news while making dinner), one in the upstairs office/guest room where H and S spend a lot of time watching sports, and one in our bedroom where I often watch in the evenings. We never let the kids have TVs in their bedrooms - S watches enough as it is!</p>
<p>We have one old portable on a cart. It’s a hand-me-down from my parents. It’s usually in the kitchen, since I’m pretty much the only person who watches it. Sometimes it’s in the living room, which is where it is now. My H thinks that tv is evil incarnate. I enjoy watching a few things, such as DWTS and some of the 9pm-and-later dramas. We don’t have cable, so we only get what the rabbit ears pick up, which is generally the three major networks. CW has gone digital, so I can’t see it anymore, and we’ve never had decent PBS reception.</p>
<p>Guess I win (most toys…I mean TV’s). We have 8 working sets. Two on satellite and the rest on cable. We have one in each bedroom (of which we have 5)and one in the office, although only the master bedroom has a cable box…the others are on “basic” cable. We have the large TV in the family room (on satellite) and one in the kid’s loft, which is also on satellite and is mostly used for Xbox 360 and WII games.
I only watch TV in the evening and mostly in bed but DH loves the watch in the office on the weekends and the kids watch in their rooms.</p>
<p>A pox on you people that always have a TV/radio on.
My husband always has to have something on.
Sometimes in the garage he has the radio on & the TV and he is reading and not paying attention to either of them.
I am very sensitive to noise and it is something I can’t tune out.
I do have my ipod- but that isn’t bothering other people.
When we go on vacation for instance- he has to have the tv on in the hotel-( or we go someplace without tv) so since we can’t afford separate rooms, I try to leave him at home when possible.</p>
<p>When I do try and talk to him ( in the garage while this stuff is on) he has tuned it out so effectively, that he doesn’t turn it off & is insulted when I ask him to do so.
( he doesn’t say so- but I can tell. )</p>
<p>Personally- I believe that needing noise as background interferes with concentration- and makes a wall between you and the environment.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to sound harsh, but there are so many things we add to our daily lives without really thinking of cumulative effects- and I wish we would start thinking about it.</p>
<p>Family Room: where we all watch; just remodeled and bought a 52" flat panel. S2 has xbox connected to it.
Kitchen: 12", with cable; use it during all those kitchen chores, in the morning before work, and evenings if we have a conflict with whatever’s on the main tv.
H & My Bedroom: almost exclusively for the 11pm news and latenight tv.
Basement “playroom”: mainly for kids and kids’ guests; has Wii (and probably other game systems) connected to it.</p>
<p>Husband also has one set in his office (separate building on our property).</p>
<p>Technically three. One in the family room for viewing, one in the basement dedicated to a Wii. One in the master bedroom that gets viewed about 30 minutes per week, at most.</p>
<p>We have one in the living room and one in the guest room that’s only used by guests who might stay over which isn’t much. I decided before they were born that my kids wouldn’t have TVs in their rooms so they’ve never had them. We’ve also never had a video game unit so haven’t needed a TV for those either. Both girls have had their own computers for a long time though.</p>
<p>For most of my life, I’ve lived in places with a single TV. Now I recently bought a house with my girlfriend, and with two appartments worth of furniture put together, I now have two TVs, though the one in the basement isn’t hooked up to anything at the moment.</p>
<p>We have three TV’s used to have four but S1 took his to college. DH and I simultaneously read the newspaper and watch TV every night after dinner. </p>
<p>We currently have one in the family room, one ancient one in the playroom (so old we played original Nintendo on it), and one in S2’s room(didn’t take it to college because roommate had a better one). </p>
<p>We have never had a TV in our bedroom. DH has a hard enough time staying awake on the couch downstairs. He wouldn’t make it through two minutes of show if he were lying in bed,lol.</p>
<p>Four. One in the family room, one in the kitchen, one in the master bedroom and one in the guest room. We never had them in our kids rooms but when son #1 moved out his room became a guest room. I upgraded the kitchen tv and put the old one in the guest room.<br>
Interestingly our electric bill was way down this month. DD informed me that she had been watching more tv, movies on her laptop and cut way back on using the large family room tv. That is the only change we could pinpoint.</p>
She’s the only one in the house that keeps a tv on for background noise. If we’re not watching, the set goes off.</p>