I still consider that to be big. I had one up until maybe 4 years ago, when it went dead.
I decided to replace it with a nice flatscreen, but I couldn’t really justify the $350+ that would have cost. As a stopgap measure I picked up a cheap 13" from Best Buy for $75, figuring I’d upgrade in a few months. I haven’t.
But really, it’s fine for my little studio apartment. Its only shortcoming is that I can’t watch foreign language movies on it. Even with my glasses on, I can’t read the subtitles.
We have two big TVs, one in the living room and one upstairs in the rec room. Mostly the kids use the one upstairs to play games, or to watch TV/movies when their friends are over. Sometimes the younger kid will go up and watch TV if he’s bored with what we’re watching downstairs.
I like the TV for background noise while I’m cooking, as long as it’s something with no commercials.
I don’t like watching movies on my computer at all.
1.) Zero. I’m not rabidly anti-TV; I have vague intentions to get a decent one for the living room in the interest of being able to watch videos with friends.
2.) Moot.
3.) Moot.
4.) The couple of TV shows I do watch, I watch online. I wanna say there are four shows I bother to keep up with: House, Glee, Leverage, and Castle. So probably less than four hours a week on average.
Two, and only that because we got one for our daughter a few years ago when my wife’s parents were here for an extended visit and her father hogged the one in the living room. When my daughter is at college it stays off for months at a time.
I watch TDS and Colbert by myself. We watch a few things, like Antiques Roadshow, together, as well as DVDs we both like. It is only maybe 2 - 4 hours a day tops.
I have two. The 27" Samsung (1996 vintage) in the living room is hooked up to a DVD and a VHS player; it gets local stations via antenna. My bedroom TV is a 20" Phillps hooked up to a DVD/VHS combo player. I actually watch more network TV programming on my computer than I do on a television set.
For years I had a small TV with rabbit ears. Then someone moved in with me and she brought a crappy but big TV. It had a “feature” that every few minutes the screen would go fuzzy, and we’d have to get up and push a little white button to clear it up. After a few months my GF decided that we needed cable, so she ordered it. Bright shiny new cable with an old crappy set. Within a few weeks I sprang for a nice set, so the old one got put in the storage room. We still kept my little one in the bedroom. A few years later that stopped working, so that got put into storage as well.
When GF moved out, I just bought her a new one instead of letting her take one of the broken ones.
When I eventually moved out, I just let the landlord deal with it.
Two. Both 55 inch HDTVs, DirecTV service. One in the “tv room,” one in the master bedroom. We watch some sports, some “Office” type shows, some Daily Show type shows. Various other things that interest us. Two adults, 1 to 4 kids in and out of residence.
I, personally, do no like the TV on as background, or when people are talking. For me, watch the tv or turn it off. (I’ll bend the rule a bit for baseball). I also am not one to fall asleep watching TV, unlike the Mrs., who does so frequently.
7: four adults, two kids. One works, but is not being used at all, and that and another is getting ready to leave the house when my BIL moves out (YAY!!!). After this week, we’ll have 5.
Sooo…
Living room: old 27in we use for the Wii. When it’s on, my MIL’s tv is the only other one on.
Bedrooms: MIL and ours: also old 27in models. Kids each have a 13in, but generally only one of those is on at a time. Only exception is when daughter is watching Disney and son wants to watch the Syfy channel. BIL has one in his room.
Three TVs for two adults, one in each of our bedrooms and one in the family room/office. One is a 42" flatscreen HD thing (mother’s bedroom), one is a 21" flatscreen thing (my bedroom), one is a 27" CRT type. All are connected to cable because that’s only $10 extra per month. The 27" CRT has the TiVo because it’s not an HD TiVo, the 42" has the DVD player.
We don’t sit together to watch television, so there are times when two TVs are on. There are never times when all three are on. We watch when there’s something we want to see, I don’t quantify it much. I don’t see the point.
One in the house; one in the RV. Donated the other house LCD to our niece. I really don’t understand people feeling the need to have a TV in the kitchen or bathroom.
I have one in the kitchen because it’s the only tv that picks up the Mexican channel. I have one in the living room that picks up four channels with the converter. My older daughter has a nice new one she uses as a monitor and tv. My BIL has two in his room. One has a DVD player attached he mostly uses as a way to listen to CDs. The other is for the PS2. Neither picks up broadcast stations.
So that makes five. One for each of us I suppose. My daughter usually keeps hers on all the time, and mine stays on a few hours during the day so my little girl can watch PBS Kids. I rarely watch television, preferring movies or Hulu on the computer.
One, two, three, or six, but definitely not four or five.
I’m in the process of moving from an apartment to a house. At the apartment, where I’m still currently living, I have three TV sets, only one of which is ever used (the other two aren’t even plugged in). At the house, which sees current use as a party pad of sorts, I also have three, one of which isn’t used. So, depending on how you define the filters for “in your home” and “working”, you can get any of the results mentioned above.
Two that are actually plugged in and get used. One in the living room, the good one that’s hooked up to the consoles and stuff, for playing and watching DVDs/Netflix instant. And one in the bedroom, that just has a DVD player. We don’t have cable.
We have one other one that technically works, but it’s old and the remote is long gone, and it doesn’t have enough buttons on the actual TV to make it really useful. We’re getting rid of that one.