# How many HD/flat-screen TVs do you have in your home? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 25, 2013, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749 "2013-11-25T13:52:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749/1 "2013-11-25T13:52:49Z")
Curious what the average is these days…I have a Phillips 42" tube TV from around 1995 that still works great. Currently we only own one HDTV, and two CRTs, but as prices continue to drop I’m looking at replacing at least one of them. I know that there were flat screen CRTs sold at one time; these wouldn’t count…so only LCD/LED/Plasma high-definition televisions for this survey - thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749/2 "2013-11-25T14:01:31Z")
Two. 46" in the family room and my son has a 26" (?) in his bedroom. Not 100% on the size there, I just know it’s in the upper 20’s and less than a 30-32" We have a 19" CRT in the master bedroom that sees limited use. We don’t watch much TV in there so haven’t had much incentive to replace it. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749/3 "2013-11-25T14:08:48Z")
Small ones in the kitchen and my wife’s art/exercise area, a 46" in the family room. We have a CRT in our bedroom that is sufficient for my wife’s Today show watching. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749/4 "2013-11-25T14:59:35Z")
One in the living room. We use laptops/iPads for other areas. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749/5 "2013-11-25T15:13:47Z")
I voted “four,” but I missed one. We have a small one in my wife’s studio. Big ones in the master bedroom and “tv room.” 42 inch in the guest room, and another in the home gym. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749/6 "2013-11-25T15:16:40Z")
One. The amazing thing is that my parents, in their late 70’s, have five (kitchen, den, 4 season porch, living room, bedroom). These are the people who refused to allow more than one TV in the house when I was growing up. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749/7 "2013-11-25T15:17:25Z")
I said four, but one of them is a small portable that I mainly use while barbecuing outside, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749/8 "2013-11-25T15:23:29Z")
One: a 50" plasma in the living room. I used to always have a TV in my bedroom, and would often watch sitcom reruns or DVD episodes before I fell asleep, but about five years ago I got out of that habit. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749/9 "2013-11-25T16:01:00Z")
Just the one, in the living room, hooked up to a computer. I have a CRT in the basement for the Wii. I don’t think the Wii ever calibrated correctly on the flatscreen. I used to have a CRT in my bedroom but I got rid of it in exchange for a laptop next to my bed. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749/10 "2013-11-25T16:30:58Z")
Four actual TVs. Family room, kitchen and two bedrooms. Three more if I include a PC with a tuner and two iPads. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749/11 "2013-11-25T16:35:25Z")
One that is in the living room. I don’t have any tvs in the bedroom. I spend enough time looking at my laptop and phone screens in there as it is. I don’t need any more encouragement not to get up in the morning. Sometimes, I do think it would be nice to have a small flat screen on a swivel in the kitchen so I could fold it away when not in use but that could duplicate the tv in the living room so when I’m doing things like working on dinner while friends are watching a movie, I don’t have to miss out. I dunno how easy that would be to set up though. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749/12 "2013-11-25T16:40:10Z")
one and like 5 CRTs ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749/13 "2013-11-25T16:42:38Z")
One in the family room. One in the basement den, one in our bedroom. Kids never had TVs in their rooms, but now they watch stuff on their laptops or iPads. ---
**Author:** ![Silophant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749/14 "2013-11-25T16:45:05Z")
One actual HDTV, but there’s three LCD monitors hooked up to computers. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749/15 "2013-11-25T16:45:28Z")
Just one. Frankly, I’m a little amazed I have two TV’s altogether since most of my life I only had one at a time, but the old TV was still working when we got the new one, so no reason to toss it out. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749/16 "2013-11-25T17:05:17Z")
We have one. I can’t imagine why we’d need more, but we have a fairly small house. We also have a 27" CRT stored in the basement “just in case.” ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749/17 "2013-11-25T17:22:42Z")
Zero for me. I have two CRT TVs and my main TV is a non-HD digital projector. Of course, I do have plenty of screens that are flat-screen HD, all attached to computers and mostly at the office. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749/18 "2013-11-25T17:27:03Z")
My CRT TV still works as well as it ever has, and by not replacing it with a flat-screen, it saves me the trouble of figuring out how to get rid of it. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749/19 "2013-11-25T17:40:54Z")
Just one at the moment. But we’re planning on buying another for Christmas to replace an old CRT. ---
**Author:** ![NVME702-redux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a183cd/32.png) [@NVME702-redux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NVME702-redux)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749/20 "2013-11-25T17:47:48Z")
Five- 70 inch in family room 47 inch in our bedroom 43 inch in Kids play room two 32 inch in each boys bedroom- daughter got a laptop for Christmas instead. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hd-flat-screen-tvs-do-you-have-in-your-home/674749.md?page=2)