# Where is your TV? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 11, 2007, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571 "2007-06-11T16:08:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@Jammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jammer)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571/41 "2007-06-11T23:14:52Z")
Media room (family room): 57 inch HD set Den: 53 inch standard def set Master BR: 32 inch set Daughter’s BR: 21 inch set (setup only for games) Kitchen: 13 inch set Plus Slingbox to stream TV to all computers in the house including the laptops via wireless, so we can basically have TV anywhere. Yes, we are doomed. Jammer ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571/42 "2007-06-11T23:43:58Z")
One in the living room One as a TV card in the computer That’s all, but both do have their own feed from the satellite dish. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571/43 "2007-06-12T00:20:57Z")
Family room, visible from the kitchen. Master bedroom wall, for easy watching in bed. Basement workshop on a raised shelf, visible from the workbench. Two people, 3 TVs - it works. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571/44 "2007-06-12T00:23:09Z")
One in the living room and one in one bedroom. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571/45 "2007-06-12T00:25:17Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle] Even if I want to watch the same show my husband is watching, he flicks around so much trying to avoid commercials that he misses part of the show. That, or he runs across something else that catches his interest and doesn’t return to the first show. Incredibly annoying! I’m going to complain…nah, fuck it, I’m going to read. [/QUOTE] Are you me??? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571/46 "2007-06-12T00:27:15Z")
In the basement den. I guess we’re one of the OP’s small minority who tuck the TV away somewhere private. ---
**Author:** ![Atrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Atrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atrael)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571/47 "2007-06-12T14:23:38Z")
HD set in the living room 32 SD set in the Master Bedroom 19 inch set in the Guest room 19 inch set in my daughter’s room 27 inch in the Mother-in-law suite living room 13 inch set in the Mother-in-law suite bedroom 17 inch set in the garage exercise room We have 4 DVR’s in the house set up to run the signals to different places. The 13 inch set in the MIL’s bedroom displays whatever is sent from the DVR in the MIL’s sitting room, which also feeds into the HD set in the living room. Same with the guest room/daughter’s room. We can Tivo a bunch of kids shows, and show them in her room. But she can’t watch anything other than that. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571/48 "2007-06-12T14:28:52Z")
Two people and two TV sets. Granted, one of them is really old and is a 13". I keep it upstairs in the bedroom, it’s good for porn or Nintendo. (Which I guess is a different kind of porn.) Our main TV is downstairs in the living room. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571/49 "2007-06-12T14:34:16Z")
Living room. In Spain that’s not considered a “public room”: many homes have a “sala de estar” or “salita” (living room) and a salón (visits living room). I only have one but I don’t get any visits anyway (friends and family don’t count). At many of my homes I haven’t even had a TV. At Mom’s it’s in the salón, but then, her salón is a raw field compared with the formality and/or amount of tchotchkes most of her neighbors have. Middlebro has one in the salón and one in his FiL’s room (FiL has ALS). His MiL’s suggestion of buying one for the kitchen and another for the upper floor’s living room was met with a blinking stare by the almost-fainting son-in-law. SiL says she still doesn’t understand where her mother came up with that, since in their house it’s always been one single TV and in the salita. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571/50 "2007-06-19T00:32:39Z")
My TV is in the kitchen on the counter. Small set, no cable, used to watch CSI-type shows while I fight with the rabbit ears because I have, like, no reception. No TV anywhere else. It’s all good. ---
**Author:** ![Arch\_Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@Arch\_Trout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arch_Trout)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571/51 "2007-06-19T01:25:44Z")
Living Room (most used) - 37" HD LCD Games Room - 26" HD LCD used for modern console gaming only Kitchen - 14" CRT used for DVD’s only Study - 14" CRT mostly used for listening to while on PC/Laptop Conservatory - 20" old CRT with inbuilt VHS player used for VHS only as it’s the only player we have in the house. Master Bedroom - 23" HD LCD Guest bedroom - 28" CRT used for DVD’s and retro console gaming. The only rooms without a TV are the dining room and my daughters room (but as she’s only 5 weeks old I don’t think I’ll need one for quite a while yet). ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571/52 "2007-06-19T01:34:16Z")
One in the living room, one in the master bedroom, and as of Aug 9th (when Kiddo turns 9) there will be one in his room. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571/53 "2007-06-19T16:28:10Z")
I have a 25" TV in the living room (along with my DVD player, TiVo, and analog cable), and there’s a 13" TV/VCR in the bedroom. Until a few months ago the TV/VCR was in the computer room and I had another 25" TV in the bedroom, but I gave that one to my boyfriend for _his_ bedroom. I hardly ever watched TV in the computer room, I mostly just used it to record shows before I got TiVo, so I only really “need” 2 sets. Soon, though, the 13" TV/VCR will become either a 20" TV/VCR/DVD or a 20" TV/DVD – and then the TV/VCR will go to my mom’s for her guest room. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571/54 "2007-06-19T20:38:21Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] My TV hangs from the ceiling in the far corner of the living room. It’s a projection system, with a pull-down screen. So when I’m not watching TV, the various components basically disappear. [/QUOTE] This is what we have, too, except the screen isn’t so easy to “disappear”, being the kind that comes up from the floor, on a stand. We _will_ be getting the pull-down kind, though. I wish I had a separate family room and living room, but I don’t. If I did, the tv would be in the family room and I could go into the living room to talk on the phone or just be somewhere away from the tv. And we have one in the bedroom, which is seldom watched. Basically only if I’m in there working on something, or if I turn it on in the morning to check the weather. It’s also up on a stand in the corner, though. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571/55 "2007-06-19T21:04:17Z")
Living room, far corner. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Mood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@Blue\_Mood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Mood)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571/56 "2007-06-19T21:05:05Z")
We’re a TV-free household, but do have four computers: two in our bedroom, one in the living room, and one laptop. Plus one of those little portable ones. We watch lots of DVDs! ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571/57 "2007-06-19T21:15:15Z")
We have one, decent but starting to fail TV (its’ fallen out of the entertainment center twice…). It is about 27, maybe 29". I don’t recall. It is in our living room, and is used to watch movies and Cable TV. I also use it to play my new 360. I am looking for another one to go into the playroom, where I will hook up the old Xbox. But I don’t want to spend money on something that’s new, so… yeah. Any of you folks with 47 TV’s care to sell cheap? Hehehe ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571/58 "2007-06-19T21:27:08Z")
Wide screen in the living room, one in hubby’s and my bedroom, one in my Dad’s study. (Dad moved in with us about 1-1/2 years ago. It’s great! He is all set up with a DVD player, stereo, and large TV - and headphones 'cuz he’s pretty deaf. He didn’t even know about closed captioning until I showed him! We’re all happy.) ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571/59 "2007-06-19T21:45:19Z")
**Living room** - 36inch set (50% of all viewing) **Master Bedroom** - 20 inch (20% of all viewing) **Office** - No television set but I have WINTV with full cable stations on my **computer** and watch while I work/surf (25% of all viewing) **Rec Room** - 24 inch set. 5% of all viewing **Guest room** **#1** 13 inch set. **Guest room** **#2** (formerly my youngest sons room) 24 inch set **Car** - Portable set. Rarely use it. We don’t have a set in either of the **bathrooms** , but we did in our old house. I had it built into the wall. I’ve been thinking about doing that here but just never got around to it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-tv/407571.md?page=2)