I don’t have one. My previous one died about four years ago and I’ve never bothered replacing it. Obviously I don’t miss it.
I don’t have one. Haven’t for years. I hate commercials!! And dumb scriptwriting!! And lies!!
Mind you, I do love me some good science fiction. But there isn’t much of that on anymore.
There are compelling neurological reasons to avoid television as well. Here’s two.
For about 10 years I didn’t have a TV after mine was stolen, but 3-4 years ago, I finally got one.
I live in a small country in northern Europe. I haven’t had a TV for absolute yonks. I found that TV made me stupid, and I’m much better off without it. My knowledge of the current shows comes to an abrupt end around 1998. I do occasionally seek out some Mythbusters or QI on the Intarwebs, though - those are really the only shows I ever watch now, with the exception of some Top Gear once in a blue moon.
Of course, now the problem is that I spend way too much time mucking about on the Internet, which also makes me stupid. My stupidification instinct will always find a way… :smack:
We have one tv in our living room. Our cable tv supplier offers the ability to record programmes so we tend to watch what we have recorded rather than what is currently being broadcast.
In the evenings, we often watch a DVD in bed - usually a tv episode of some sort.
Only for visits.
I live in Spain, and grew up not being able to choose which shows to watch. First there was only two channels and parents who believed very strongly in censorship, later there was a dorm where 17 of us would rather watch Willow but the other 53 preffered 90210 reruns.
There have been periods when I didn’t have a TV; didn’t miss it at all. The flat I’m looking to rent now will probably have one - that doesn’t mean I’ll switch it on. The one in my house back in Spain does have one, which comes in handy for getting Mom out of my hair when she comes visit (she tends to reorganize stuff when bored; a very dangerous activity, as it drives me up the walls when it’s my stuff).
At Mom’s there’s one TV, in the living room. Same at Lilbro’s who lives mostly in a different room. At Middlebro’s there’s two: one in the living room and one in his bedridden FiL’s bedroom. If FiL wasn’t there, there would be only one TV in the house and much less watching going on.
Great. Now I have the image of seventy Spanish schoolgirls all in one room. Giggly pillow fights ensue. Perhaps hair-pulling.
I don’t need a TV with programing like this in my own head. 
Paul, let me make it worse:
the program on is either the official presentation of the Spanish national soccer team, prompting an agitated discussion about who has the best legs (a 31yo whose name escapes me right now, shame on me, he’s from my homeland) and who is cuter (17yo Julen Guerrero), or a male gymnastics event, prompting one of the girls to complain that “the cute Russian” (cuter even than the other two, that is) is “too short” and the other 69 to explain that not everybody in the whole wide world is 1’80m tall, yaknow.
Can you smell the hormones already?
Then the pizza guy arrives?
I’ll be in my bunk.
Yes, I do. I didn’t have one in America, but have gone through two in Bulgaria. (First one was burned out in a power surge during a thunderstorm. Yes, I am very smart.) I recommend getting TVs to all the new volunteers here, for a couple of reasons. First, language. TV has definitely improved my Bulgarian. I mostly watch English-language stuff with subtitles, and even reading the subtitles has helped a lot. Secondly, it keeps me clued into Bulgarian culture. I didn’t give a shit if I wasn’t watching whatever my coworkers in America were watching because I never felt like I needed some kind of help with American culture. I already know about Americans. But I like watching the morning news shows here, so I can go in to work and talk about whatever’s going on here with my colleagues.
Also, I don’t have internet at home here, my reading selection is somewhat limited, and there’s not so much going on in a village in Eastern Europe (ie, nothing at all) so it’s nice to have some form of entertainment.
I have two TV’s actually. One’s hooked up to digital cable with a DVR. So I’m not tied to the TV. I’ll watch recorded programs for an hour or so. Then I’ll take a break, read, nap, or do something else, knowing the programs will still be there later. So the TV doesn’t dictate my schedule. I have a small portable in my bedroom which is cable ready, but not hooked up to a digital box. I’ll mostly lay in bed and watch CNN or MSNBC for an hour or so when I can’t sleep.
Actually, since I have broadband, I can also watch streaming programs on my laptop. i guess I should count it as a TV since it’s like On Demand. But still, it allows me to interrupt my viewing as necessary and makes it so I don’t sit glued to the tube for hours on end.
I have 3 TVs: One downstairs, one in our bedroom, and one in the guest bedroom, a 1956 Philco Diamond (no, not a Predicta) that gets sound but no picture. It is not hooked up to cable and functions mainly as a lamp stand. But we’re keeping it.
Four TVs in the house. One, in the family room is where we usually watch television, although I have a low tolerance of it. (We do have basic cable because I like Discovery Channel and HGTV.) I have one in my room that I’ll watch in the evenings after Hallboy goes to bed. There’s one in the kitchen that I use occassionally for the news when I’m fixing dinner, and there’s one in Hallboy’s room that used to be solely for his Game Cube, but since he got grounded and it’s been taken away, the television just sits there, I guess, as an empty reminder. (No, it’s not hooked to cable or anything…I don’t even think it’s plugged in at this point.)
We have six TVs for three people. There’s a 42" LCD in the living room that I watch my reality shows on, a 52" LCD in the family room where my husband watches sports, a 42" LCD my son bought for his rec room to play video games on and watch sports, an older 25" TV in the son’s bedroom, a 25" TV in the guest room, and a 15" flat screen in the kitchen/dining room to watch the morning news and keep me entertained when I cook. Yes, we watch way too much TV, but we’re happy in our couch potatoedness.
My parents rationed TV for my sisters and me very carefully, so it became a treat, but also one that I still tend to consume in small doses. It’s rare that I just zone out in front of the TV for hours at a time - more often I turn it on just for the show I want to watch, and then immediately turn it off afterwards.
In our household of two adults and three kids, we have three TVs, but it’s rare that more than one is on at a time. There’s a 21-inch plasma screen in our living room, which we watch most often; a small, portable TV/VCR in the master bedroom, which we use when the boys or we want to watch something other than what another family member is already watching on the living room TV; and a small, portable DVD player, which we take in the van on loooooong family trips to keep the boys entertained. Once in a blue moon we use it at home.
We’ve had basic cable for just a couple of months now, having long resisted due to the expense and because we suspected it would mean we’d all end up watching more TV. That hasn’t been the case, though.
I have one ancient ('92 vintage) TV in the living room. I can fairly say that all I watch is sports, and only those sports that come over the airwaves – football and soccer, mostly. I’ll watch a bit of the Olympics this summer as well. I’ve never been much of a TV person. It was kind of discouraged when we were kids, and I’ve never gotten the habit. And let’s ignore the ten years I spent in the TV industry, where all I ever did was watch TV.
We have six TV’s. One in the family room, one in the basement, one in the kitchen, one in my bedroom and one in each of the kids bedrooms. We use Comcast cable on all the sets and the one in our bedroom also streams Chinese channels via the internet (KY Lin TV). The kids share a Wii, I have a PS3 and we all share the computer. It isn’t as bad as it seems, since my In-laws live with us as well.
We live in Pennsylvania, USA.
I grew up in a house with a TV in almost every room. (Also hundreds of books, though.) We weren’t much for family togetherness.
In a mild rebellion I have only one in our house, a big wide-screen TV in the living room with digital cable plus HBO and a DVR. We record a few TV shows and watch a fair number of DVDs. Oh, and the boys do have a small TV that they use only for their video games.
I have TVs, but not “TV.” I own a few older 70s/80s-era sets for use with vintage video game systems (older systems that put out not-quite-NTSC signals work fine on old TVs, but TV tuners from the 90s and up often choke on them). I own a 1990s-era TV that’s connected to a DVD player and laserdisc player. It’s used as a monitor only, and it will eventually be replaced with a 16:9 HD monitor, sans tuner (unless the price difference between monitors and TVs is negligble when I go shopping).
I lived for four years in an underground apartment where I couldn’t receive broadcast signals, and couldn’t afford cable. I got used to not watching TV, and have never made an attempt to get back into it.
I think people go out of their way to mention they don’t have a TV. Makes them feel superior.
I have a 42" plasma and 26" CRT in the bedroom. Also watch a good bit of programs and movies on my computer, 24" LCD.