View Poll Results: How Many Active TV's in Your Home?
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One
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49 |
24.50% |
Two
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46 |
23.00% |
Three
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37 |
18.50% |
Four
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22 |
11.00% |
Five
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11 |
5.50% |
Six
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12 |
6.00% |
Seven
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1.00% |
Eight
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6 |
3.00% |
Nine
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0% |
Ten
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0.50% |
None
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14 |
7.00% |
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09-02-2017, 02:24 PM
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#61
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We have a total of 5 flat screen TVs in the house. One in the living room that you can also see from the kitchen and dining room. Master bedroom and guest room each has one. There is also one in the den. The biggest flat screen is in the family room in the basement. It is a nice big Samsung smart TV. It is used primarily for football and baseball games.
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09-02-2017, 04:43 PM
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#62
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: San Diego
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1 in the living room.
1 in the kitchen area (there's a couch and casual dining table.)
1 in a bedroom we use as an exercise room.
None are in bedrooms. Rarely are two on at the same time, except rarely if DH or I are in the kitchen making dinner, and the other is watching news in the living room. Unfortunately, you can't see the living room tv from the kitchen... Sometimes younger son will use the family room tv to stream netflix. But mostly the kids stream youtube on their phones... They don't seem too interested in bigger screens.
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09-02-2017, 04:54 PM
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#63
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Join Date: May 2014
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Two.
One in my bedroom, Netflix, no cable programming.
A "Roku TV" downstairs in the guest living area- same setup except that the Roku hardware is built into it.
I've got an old CRT-type out in the garage- I suspect I wouldn't even be able to get rid of it as Free Stuff on Craigslist. I'll eventually end up paying for a recycling place to take it.
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09-02-2017, 05:19 PM
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#64
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Palma de Mallorca
Posts: 1,419
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Just one. I probably watch it for an hour per month. DW watches when she gets in from w*rk, but increasingly prefers Netflix on her tablet which she can take anywhere in the house. Most TV output is garbage IMO (and we get UK TV, which is generally less dreadful than that of most countries). One of the many things that millennials get right and we boomers don't is not watching TV shows just because they are on. (Other things millennials get right include living in cities rather than suburbs, not having a car just because everyone has a car, and making appointments to call people on the phone, rather than interrupting them with a spontaneous call.)
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09-02-2017, 07:23 PM
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#65
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Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 12,901
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Two: living room (the one we watch the most), and master bedroom (only DW watches that one). We have OTA, Amazon Prime, HBO Now, and Netflix on the living room TV and Netflix only on the bedroom TV. No cable TV.
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09-02-2017, 08:31 PM
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#66
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Join Date: Jul 2017
Posts: 5,762
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I don't know. I ran through this house counting tvs and was surprised at what I found. Not sure what is in the other house.
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09-02-2017, 08:49 PM
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#67
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Location: Huntsville, AL/Helen, GA
Posts: 6,002
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Heck, I have 3 flat screens in my fifth wheel camper trailer.
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09-02-2017, 09:08 PM
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#68
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Seeing people with as many as 6 TV's in an RV reminds me that I have one in my class C too. Had to install it myself as the motorhome did not have one when I bought it.
I used it very seldom. When on a trip we are often in places with no OTA signals, and it is often too much hassle to set up the sat dish. We are also too tired after a day of out-and-about to stay up late to watch TV.
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09-03-2017, 05:29 AM
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#69
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Join Date: Jun 2013
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We have 5 ( one in each of three bedrooms, the family room and the office.) Sorry to say we are cable news junkies. But I wanted to point out that we recently shaved our cable bill significantly by returning four boxes to Spectrum. And the four non box TV's obtain their Spectrum cable signal through the Spectrum internet connection, which I find to be a superior way to view, DVR, on demand and live TV without any cost.
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09-03-2017, 07:13 AM
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#70
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Talking about TV's. Bought my first colour TV when I was 24 in 1974. Just got my job at the CPA firm and was making $10,000 per year. That TV (26 inch Zenith in a big wooden cabinet) cost $775. Almost 8% of my gross comp!! Talk about the prices coming down since then.
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09-03-2017, 07:35 AM
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#71
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Hey, that's the same size I bought in 1980, except it was a Sylvania with "Supersound" option. Not sure exactly how much I paid, but it was probably around $700, so the price already came down quite a bit, considering inflation was high in the 70s. And I have the SS record on hand. I made $25,049 in 1980, my 1st job out of grad school.
I had to look it up. Inflation was 67% from 74 to 80, so your $775 became $1294 in 1980.
Inflation is 3.12x from 1980 till now. The $700 I paid in 1980 would be worth $2184 today.
PS. About not remembering what I paid for the TV, apparently my "superior memory" has its limits. Last year, going through my file cabinet to clean up stuff, I ran across the invoice of that TV. Did not keep it.
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09-03-2017, 08:06 AM
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#72
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: North Scottsdale
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8 here! When we went from 2 houses to 1 we just kept them all and found a place for them at the new home.
Living room: 65" LCD
Office: 55" Plasma
Master: 50" Plasma
Guest Bdrm: 32" LCD
Patio: 42" LCD
Workshop: 23" LCD
Casita Living Room: 46" LCD
Casita Master: 34" LCD
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09-03-2017, 09:11 AM
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#73
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Location: Annapolis
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I voted 8, but I don't think it's very meaningful (ie, not correlated with ongoing spending), for a couple reasons: 1) I have no set-top boxes (just a $5 cablecard rental) and my monthly cable+Internet bill is ~$107 all-in (not including Netflix), 2) TVs have gotten real cheap, so it's a commodity more than a luxury. 3) 2 of the TVs are also functioning as PC monitors. 4) the kids are all watching video on their PCs/laptops, rather than the big screen TVs.
I do have one significant luxury, my theater room, with 13' wide screen
Of the 8, there are only 4 that get daily use, and not all at the same time.
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09-05-2017, 08:56 AM
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#74
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TVs are amazingly cheap nowadays, so the poll is more about people watching habit rather than how it impacts their spending.
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