I had one when I was single, but when I got married it was a rule we agreed on: no TV in the bedroom. Our kids don’t and won’t have them or computers in their rooms either.
We used to have a little 13" CRT with a DVD player in the bedroom. Wholly inadequate for watching TV in bed, so it got very little use. Then we inherited a 26" LED TV, which is much better for watching TV in bed, but it still gets very little use.
Years ago we stopped using the TV as a sleep device, and now only use it occasionally to watch TV when something else is going on in the living room, or when you’re folding laundry, etc. And for porn, of course.
I’d consider getting a TV for “the den”, so the kid can have a place to play video games or whatever they’ll be doing 10 years from now, without bugging the crap out of me.
We have two televisions: one in the living room, one on the kitchen. Keeping it out of the bedroom helps with both sleep and sex.
My family only has one working TV, which is in the living room, and which I never watch anyway. I’ve never had a TV in my bedroom.
(Although sometimes if I"m travelling and I’m staying in a hotel where there’s a TV in the bedroom, I will watch the TV.)
We had one for many years, but when we recently moved, we didn’t put it back up, because we found we never really watched it in there anyway. We have a really nice setup with a huge screen, recliners and good audio in one room, which is much nicer for watching movies and such. And we have a decent setup in the family room (which flows into the kitchen) for the news and casual watching. I have a TV in my office that I sometimes watch when I’m working (depending on what I’m working on), and we have one in the gym. Between all those, we more than have the bases covered, so it’s not really necessary to have one in the bedroom.
I have two TV’s in the bedroom. Well, technically 3 at the moment, but the main one’s broken and the third one is just a replacement. If I get the broken one fixed (which I hope I can) the third one will be out. If not, it will eventually be out.
The second one is just a small CRT used so I can have the TV at the same time I use the main one for other stuff like video games or whatever.
If you have one stacked on top of the other one, you are now officially a hillbilly. (It’s a good thang.)
that’s from the first movie not the sequel
how could anyone make such an egregious error
I have 2 TVs in my room so I can play videogames and watch TV at the same time
Hubby loves watching sports, me, not so much. I love watching old movies, him, not so much. More than one tv means much more peace in the valley, as it were. So more than one tv just makes sense for us. We do have one in the bedroom, and it gets a lot of use, I watch The Daily Show, and then roll over and fall to sleep. Some nights I only see the opening sequence then fall asleep! It’s especially nice when one of us is ill or recovering from something. It’s also nice for watching movies, as I’m usually going to fall asleep midway through!
I do have a TV in my bedroom. It’s generally only used for watching sporting events, as I’ve pretty much lost interest in all other TV. But from time to time my daughter will watch a movie in my room, and we just spend a quiet little time together, with her falling asleep in my bed and me poking around on the computer a bit or snuggling up with her.
One baseball season starts again our TVs will be in much greater use, as the Blue Jays will be on. I don’t usually just sit and watch but I’ll always at least keep an eye on the game when I’m home.
We have only 1 TV, a 50" plasma in the family room. I have enough trouble sleeping to keep one in the bedroom, which is only for sleep and sex and getting dressed. Half of the time we have sex in the family room anyway, so if our activities require a screen, it’s right there.
We have:
1 large TV in the living room
1 smaller TV in the kitchen (these two rooms are right next to each other - I can see the one in the kitchen from where I’m sitting including what’s on - husband watches that one usually from his chair at the table. I sit on the couch and watch the bigger one. There is a long story behind this - and it isn’t at all interesting so I will not bore you with it.)
1 medium sized TV in our bedroom
1 medium sized TV in son’s room
1 medium sized TV in the garage
None of them affect anything sex wise.
I’m a NitroPress type married to a gwendee’s ex type! So yes, we have a TV in the bedroom. I sleep with a pillow over my head and wake up around midnight to turn the damn thing off.
Nope, and never will. That room is for about 3 things, one of which is not TV.
There are 3 screens in the living room: Main TV, TV connected to my computer, and a laptop that floats aroud the house.
8 y/o has an old TV with N64 attached in his room, but he’s not usually allowed to use it.
We have a TV in our bedroom. We watch it most evenings before bed. My wife would like to keep it on longer, and would fall asleep with it on if I allowed it. We have a deal, however, that the rights of the person who wants to sleep outweigh the rights of the person who wants to do something that would prevent sleep. Doesn’t effect our sex life, which (thanks for asking) is fantastic.
No TV in the bedroom, ever. I just don’t get the appeal of lying in bed to watch TV. I do it in hotel rooms, and it’s uncomfortable. It also makes it really hard for me to get to sleep.
I have several sleep problems including a form of narcolepsy (that’s not self-diagnosed- I’m actually mentioned by pseudonym in a couple of articles) but it’s also not the kind where you fall asleep in mid sentence; in fact, falling asleep isn’t always easy for me. I recently moved and started a new job where I have a more conventional schedule, but for the past several years I’ve worked most nights and had a wildly erratic daytime schedule.
TV actually helps me get to sleep, as does the ritual (part of “sleep hygiene” for those who know the term). Each night I watch The Daily Show in bed, then I turn on AC 360. If Anderson Cooper isn’t on, I record the show and play it. I set the timer to turn off the TV in one hour. Since starting this ritual (and there’s more to the ritual), I have literally never once heard the TV go off and usually I’m asleep before the first commercial break with no idea what topics were mentioned after the first 5 minutes.
I should perhaps mention that I hate a totally silent room and don’t like those “ocean waves” and “night forest” noise machines or radio much better, which also adds to why I actually use the TV to help me get to sleep.
Although we seldom watch them, there are TVs in all the bedrooms.
Tangled Up In Blue and I can’t bring ourselves to put TVs in the living or family rooms. Most of the families we grew up around believed that a TV in the living room was a faux pas. The living room is where people gathered to talk to each other - not to watch TV.
Nope, they’re all standing on the same desk, none of them could withstand another set on top, two being LCD panels (broken one pushed behind the working one), and one being a CRT too small to stack anything on top of.
Especially if there are four hound dogs asleep in a pile at the bottom of the tv stack.