One in the computer room, one in the guest bedroom and one in the upstairs den, in the vain hope we would excercise more, if there was a TV.
We purposely removed one from the living room, since every time my parents came to visit, Dad, who is losing his hearing, would raise the volume until you could no longer talk. If he wants to be antisocial, he can go to his room.
One in the living room, rec room, master bedroom and my office. It is not unusual to have all 4 TV’s on with each person watching something different.
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.
i don’t have a den or family room in a two bedroom townhouse, so my 47-inch monster widescreen resides in my living room.
there’s a second, much smaller tv up in the computer room, but none in the bedroom, which is only for reading, sleeping and other activites.
In my apartment the number of TVs is twice the number of people living here: one in the livingroom and one in the bedroom.
It’s on the kitchen floor by the dog crate, beside the stereo speakers that don’t work any more, and holding up the printer I never use either. A boyfriend brought it over because (a) he thought I couldn’t afford one and was being nice, and (b) he couldn’t imagine spending time anywhere without a TV, and he wanted to spend time at my house, so he brought one.
It lasted a month (barely longer than the boyfriend) and died. Everything’s just waiting until I get my act together to carry it all downstairs where I hope someone will carry it all away.
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.
And the living room is the “back” room. The front room is the dining room. There’s a TV there also but it’s in the corner and isn’t hooked up to anything but a VCR. It’s been turned on once in the last year, I think.
:: Homer drool
The Wall-O-TV is in the den/kitchen. The normal TV is in the master bedroom. And we have two (unplugged) in the garage.
We have one TV for four people and it’s in our finished basement, a full level below the kitchen/living room/dining room level. Actually, we have a 2nd unit in the kitchen but it’s a fold down/flat screen under-counter jobbie that’s also a CD player and radio. It’s there for the rare (maybe 2x/month) occasion that my wife wants to watch the news while she’s cooking dinner. The rest of the time the screen is flipped out of sight and it just looks like an under-counter radio.
I don’t like it when TV’s are in the living room, because then it becomes the focal point of every social occasion. I’d rather just talk to my family and guests. My wife and I go downstairs after the kids go to bed and we watch for a couple hours, but that’s about it. Also, if we have guests with kids, they like to go downstairs to watch a movie or play games, and the adults can hang out upstairs.
The only problem with our setup is it makes it difficult to have a group over for a big football game or something like that. In those situations we bring it up to the living room and run the cable up through a little hole in the corner of the floor; it’s OK then because the football game is the reason for the social occasion.
We very specifically wanted to keep the TV somewhere other than the front/family room. We didn’t want it to be the first thing you saw when you walked in, we didn’t want to arrange the furniture around that single piece, and we didn’t want it in the room where we’d be doing all our entertaining.
Off the kitchen, down the stairs to the guest room is our TV room (essentially the basement). No TVs on the main floor or upstairs (where the bedroom & office are).
I find this not to be a problem. I hit the power button and put the remote away. The TV hasn’t come on during a party or visit unless it’s to watch a game, movie, or play a game that was the pretense for the occasion to begin with.
Me neither, but the living room’s the only room big enough for the TV.
When we have people over, we leave the TV off, but it still sits there, watching us, looking like it feels neglected, maybe even getting pissed off that nobody’s paying attention.
My mom always left the TV on when she had company. Toward the end, when I was older and braver, I’d turn down the volume. She’d just turn it back up. 
Our TV is in the living room, connected to a DVD player and a VCR (but not cable). In our last apartment it was on a wheeled cart, so we rolled it near the couch to watch (it’s a 13" TV so you can’t watch it from very far away, especially if subtitles are involved). But now it’s on a stationary bench protruding from the wall, a bit too far for comfort. So we watch it only once a month or so.
We have one “household” TV, and it’s in the living room. I didn’t even have a TV until I got married. My 14-year-old son got his own TV a few years ago, and it lives in his room.
Because of the business my wife is in, she has two TVs on the desk in her office. Those don’t count, because they’re only used for work.
There will never be a TV set in my bedroom.
My parents’ house, when I was in high school, had a family room (where we had the TV) and a formal living room without a TV. But the living room was far from the kitchen, so guests usually ended up in the kitchen and family room (though we didn’t watch TV). My parents entertained about once a year. The piano was in there, but only my mom played it. The only books in there were some really old encyclopedias. There was pretty much nothing to do in there if you weren’t interested in playing the piano, so we never used it.
I decided, based on that experience, that I didn’t want a separate living room and family room when I went house-hunting, unless I was going to make one of them into a computer room.
I live alone and have one TV… and it is in the only non-bedroom room in the house, which I guess is the “Great Room.” Kitchen, dining area, and living space all in one.
I really hate the chatter of a television that I am not watching, so if I ever live in a house with more rooms, the TV will be tucked away in a den somewhere, so the door can be shut to stop it from polluting the rest of the house.
But for now, it’s just me, and it’s only on when I want it to be. So the great room it is.
We have a tv in every room in the house, except in the bathrooms…and my husband is trying (and I mean really, really trying!) to rationalize a reason to put them in there, also.
In the basement, in a corner.
We have the large one in our bedroom, and a smaller one in one area of the living room. However, the living room is so large that the set doesn’t dominate it, there are two other seating areas in the room, away from it. Pretty much, I’m the only one who ever watches the living room set; I like to turn on the news in the morning.