# How many TVs have you got in your house then? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 14, 2015, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060 "2015-05-14T20:46:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060/41 "2015-05-15T12:16:16Z")
42" in the living room, and the 32" it replaced in the basement, which is hooked up to just my Xbox 360 so I can play Madden on it when my wife is watching “RuPaul’s Game of Real Housewives of Downton Abbey” upstairs. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060/42 "2015-05-15T12:24:26Z")
One about 14 years old. I last turned it on about 3 or 4 weeks ago I guess. It has a DVD player with it but it isn’t plugged in to either the TV or the power. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060/43 "2015-05-15T12:32:15Z")
We had 7 but I gave 2 older ones away recently to some new grads (neighbor’s employee) that wanted them for a mancave, so 5. Main living room Game room Master bedroom Guest bedroom Spare kitchen / pool area ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060/44 "2015-05-15T13:02:12Z")
One, 40" in the living room. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060/45 "2015-05-15T13:34:34Z")
BTW, the pool kitchen one was perhaps the most interesting to me. We have Uverse for the others but I wanted this one to be independent of that because of our hurricane situation. We’re 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico and have gone for a week w/o reception before when Ike knocked out the cable provider. I have an antennae that measures about 6x9 but I couldn’t put it in the attic because of the radiant barrier in place there. So I ran a line to the garage and installed the antennae on the ceiling above the garage doors. Now I get regular over the air broadcasts and was surprised to see the number of Spanish and Vietnamese channels also available. There’s 7 or 8 good English ones though, local and even one that carries a lot of movies so we’re set come hell or high water. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060/46 "2015-05-15T14:33:45Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > One, but it’s in the back of a closet somewhere. I’m one of those annoying people that watch no television and have a house full of books insted. I watch TV while reading books. That makes me extra-annoying. I have two TVs; one in the living room, and one in the master bedroom. They’re both around 22". The one in the LR is an HDTV, which is cool. I would like a larger one! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060/47 "2015-05-15T14:41:10Z")
\*\*How many TVs have you got in your house then? \*\* All of them. They’ll get wrecked if I leave them outside. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060/48 "2015-05-15T14:48:22Z")
One 46" in the living room. I have nothing against TVs, but since living on my own (or with SOs), I’ve never needed more than the one. That said, a good bit of my video consumption these days is via streaming video, so you can count the iPad and laptop as a mobile TV of sort. (Only very occasionally do I watch anything on the desktop–usually to put a sporting event on the second screen while I work.) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060/49 "2015-05-15T15:16:39Z")
Six. (I coulda “won” this but for **PSXer** ). Four are bedroom TVs, one in the living room, and one in the freakin’ bathroom. When I lived alone, I had one TV that was rarely on. It was nice. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060/50 "2015-05-15T15:57:04Z")
ElCheapo 32" HDTV in the living room, ElCheapo 19" HDTV and a 15" flat screen in the master bedroom, dual purpose 19" monitor/HDTV in my work area, and bedroom #2 has a 15" CRT TV so old that the universal remote which came with the cable box doesn’t recognize it. ETA: forgot about the pair of 7" travel TVs. They have yet to be used in this millennium. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060/51 "2015-05-15T16:59:45Z")
Zero if you mean things that receive cable or RF broadcasts. Five screens (two phones, two laptops, and a projector screen) that we can watch video on. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060/52 "2015-05-15T17:02:31Z")
Two 32" LEDs. Gotten rid of all the CRT monitors/TVs now. Thanks to computer screens, etc., probably won’t add a third. Used to have 4 as the “standard” number. Came _very_ close to getting the greenlight to replace one with a 48" model last week. Maybe next month. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060/53 "2015-05-15T17:43:35Z")
Two, a 42" in the living room and a 32" in the bedroom. Used to have a slightly malfunctioning 42" plasma in the basement, but replaced it with a big computer screen. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060/54 "2015-05-15T18:39:01Z")
Six. Two are portable pocket TVs, one of which is useless since it’s analog. Two are old AC/DC 5" B&W portables I bought for next to nothing at yard sales just as collector’s items, but they do work. One is a 25" CRT I just can bring myself to get rid of, and the other’s a 42" Vizio that I use. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060/55 "2015-05-15T19:08:35Z")
Quite a few. Let’s see… – 60" LCD wall-mounted Smart TV in the family room, used for movies and Internet stuff. – 30" floor model in a wood cabinet from 1992. Still works but we don’t use it anymore as we canceled our cable years ago and without cable it does nothing. – 15" CRT model in my office with a built-in DVD player which hasn’t been turned on in years. – 15" CRT model in the exercise room with a built-in DVD player, mounted on an extendable arm on a wall facing the center of the room to be viewable from all equipment. Mostly used by my wife. – 35" CRT model in the guest bedroom sitting on a cabinet. Not used since we canceled cable. – 47" LCD in the master bedroom, connected to a Roku box for Netflix and YouTube, and a digital antenna to pull in over-the-air TV signals. – 12" black-and-white CRT model in the basement from way back in my high-school days. Still works, and with the right adapter and antenna could be used for over-the-air TV, but it is black-and-white so why bother? I will never part with it, though. 🙂 So that makes 7 TVs in the house. I also have a 12" CRT model at the right of the galley in the cabin on my boat. We added a digital converter box a few years ago and use it almost every time we sleep at the boat for over-the-air TV. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060/56 "2015-05-15T19:20:26Z")
Three. A 46" in the family room, an old 14" CRT/VCR combo in the bedroom that’s rarely used and my teenager has a 22" flat screen in his room that’s mainly for his game system (though it is hooked to the cable). The family room one sees 99.5% of the household television work. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060/57 "2015-05-15T19:34:15Z")
No CRTs left. Just like light bulbs we upgraded them all to LCD. 52" in Family Room 50" in Basement 42" in Son’s room 25" in Bedroom 22" in Guest room 20 something that my daughter just dropped off for my son to take to school. and Technically I “own” the 37" my daughter has at school (but I really don’t want it back). If you want to count screens that can show streaming video or DVD the number goes up quite a bit, including a 9" DVD player in the van. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060/58 "2015-05-15T22:01:52Z")
4 in the three bedrooms 3 in the family room (two are not currently hooked up, but have been at some point within the last year.) 1 in the kitchen 1 in the den (not currently hooked up to something, may soon go up as a third TV in one of the bedrooms) 3-4 in the basement (not currently hooked up) I did not count it, but there’s also a broken TV in the kitchen, sitting under the table. Just haven’t gotten around to throwing it out yet. It used to be in the bathroom. The rest all work to varying degrees, but most are in okay shape. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060/59 "2015-05-15T22:07:10Z")
One that works in the den. It has rabbit ears, a Roku feed, a DVD/vcr feed, and is attached to a couple of game systems. One or two in the basement that aren’t attached to anything. I’ve been meaning to ask my son to take them to the dump. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_Hey_Paula)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060/60 "2015-05-16T03:21:12Z")
Two currently working - a flat screen in the living room, and an older TV in the bedroom. Two non-working big-screens that I need to get rid of. One smaller flat-screen, still in its box, a raffle prize from our office holiday party a couple of years ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-tvs-have-you-got-in-your-house-then/720060.md?page=4)