How many actual TVs do you have?

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When I was a little kid, we had one TV. When I was in the third grade and started public school, I found out that most homes had at least two-- one in the living room, and one in the parents’ bedroom, and a few kids had their own TVs. We were particularly weird, because it was 1975 and we didn’t have a color TV. Everyone I knew had a color TV, except the one really weird kid who didn’t have TV at all (his parents were still hippies).

When I was 11, my grandparents took pity on my brother and me, and got us 13-inch B&W TVs for Purim. I felt rich.

When I was on my own, I still had the little B&W, and then I found a 19-inch color on sale for $60 (with a remote!) and put it on my credit card. I didn’t even have cable. But now I was one person with 2 TVs. I put one in my bedroom.

When my husband and I combined households, we put the 19-inch color in the living room, his 13-inch color in the bedroom, and the B&W in the kitchen. The 19-inch eventually failed, and we got a 22-inch from Goodwill.

Years later, someone gave us a 26-inch. So we had the 22-inch in the bedroom, and the B&W in the kitchen, because my husband’s color had failed after our move.

When the 26-inch, which was SD failed, we made the switch to HD. My son had an old desktop in his room, not connected to the internet, but he played games and watched DVDs on it. We donated the 22-inch to Goodwill just before they stopped taking TVs. The B&W is in the back of a closet for sentimental reasons.

But now we have only one TV. We also have two laptops (one DVD capable), and a desktop that is relatively new, in my son’s room, with internet (wireless). Plus, he has a tablet, and a portable DVD player (both grandma gifts). We get HULU and Netflix, and can stream our DVR to the computers.

My son has never said anything about feeling weird about having only one TV.

How many TVs is it normal to have? Do we have more computers than normal? My son’s is oldish, just with some upgraded hardware, so it has WIN10. The monitor is big, but it was a demo, and we got it half-price. My laptop is cheap, and my husband has work stuff on his, so he needs a separate one. The portable DVD player is really old-- like 9 years.

So what do other people have?

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I currently have 2 that actually ever get used. But I actualy HAVE like 7 or 8 other tvs/monitors that have found their way to me property in one way or another…mostly people move and leave their shit with me in hopes of getting it back later, but later never happens. I literally have a pile of like 5 tv’s on my back patio. All work, and all are hooked up to one vcr, so I can watch my laser eye surgery on all of them at the same time like some weird art project.

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I have one tv and one laptop, but I only watch shows/movies on the tv. I’ve never had a tv in the bedroom (I’m in my forties).

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None. The only video I watch is on my desktop monitor.

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I have a basic 32" Visio flat screen in the living room hooked up to a nice 5.1 home theater set up. I also have a couple of old CRT TVs (26" RCA and a 20" Samsung with a VHS and DVD player) in storage. I really need to take the old TVs to the e-cycle place down the street but I never seem to get around to it.

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I have one TV, which I hardly ever watch.

StG

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Three - one in my living room, one in my bedroom, and a small one in my computer room.

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  1. Husband’s office, Living Room, Bedroom.
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Four televisions. One is in my younger kid’s room and functions purely as a display for his Pac-Man game these days. The other three (family room, master bedroom, older son’s room) are wired up for TV purposes.

Growing up, we had the console color TV (23") in the basement (later moved to living room), a small (11"?) B&W in the kitchen and one year I got some tiny 4" screen B&W/radio combo unit for my room from my dad which annoyed my mother mightily.

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1 24" smart tv in the living room. There is another larger tv in the guest bedroom but it hasn’t been turned on in months.

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Technically none. I have a 37" monitor in the living room that has a 5.1 surround sound, computer, BluRay and separate over-the-air HDMI TV receiving box hooked up to it. So it acts as an OTA TV set, but also my PC monitor and home theater.

Back when I had tube TV’s there was one in the bedroom and one in the living room plus the tube monitor for the desktop PC. Now if I really want to watch something in bed, I use my phone propped on a pillow, but that’s rare.

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Three, but only two are plugged in.

The third is one I inherited from my Mother who died over 32 years. 19" color. I replaced it a couple of years ago, just because I wanted another HD.

But it still works, and will be a backup if one of other two failed.

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We have two TVs, but only one of them is connected to cable. The other is hooked up to the gaming consoles and the computer.

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None. I never upgraded to HD and just watch movies/TV on my computer. I’m planning to buy one in a month or two, once I move from a studio to a 1BR so I have a living room to put it in.

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Four. One in the basement “finished room”. A small one in the bedroom. Two more that were inherited from deceased parents for when one or both of the primary sets dies.

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Zero.

A family gave me a Sony CRT about ten years ago. They couldn’t believe I didn’t have a TV.

I soon gave it away.

I have a laptop and it is fine.

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I have a small collection of little TVs. One is a hand-held digital model and one is a pre-digital pocket model. I have two B&W 5" portables and one color 5" unit. I also have a 25" CRT and a 42" 1080p flat screen. I only use the 42 incher, and would happily give the 25" to anyone who would take it, but that makes seven in all.

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I have 3 televisions. A Samsung 40 inch, which was migrated to the bedroom this year when the MIL gave us a 50 inch Samsung for Christmas and an ooooold Magnavox console tv out in the garage that, if any modern video storage and playback devices were compatible with it I would still be using. (Hey even though its 30 years old the picture is still better than the two flat screen tvs and yes you can get off my lawn)

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We have one-- a 32 inch in the living room. I keep wanting to get bigger one to put in the living room, and put the current one in the basement, but I just never seem to have the actual drive to spend the money. And honestly, this one is the only one we need.

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One in the house and one in the RV. My eldest son has four, including a 60+" behemoth that has all sorts of bells and whistles I never heard of: 3D and 4G and whatever.