OK, so how many televisions do you have in your house?

4,7? What happened to the 0,3?

Anyway, I felt guilty/spoiled for having three. I guess I shouldn't as we have less than the average household. One in the living room, one in our bedroom and one in the "play"room.

4.7. Ha ha. Ridiculous... surely?

3, but that's including the broken one dumped in the spare bedroom and the unused big screen telly which makes a horrible noise so I've unplugged it.

So really just 1.

but I say I don't even know anyone with 4 or more!

Now I come to think of it, my mum has about 6, of which 3 work

Ste, don't do this to me! I feel guilty and decadent again. :-( Srsly, two are old tellies and the third one's a bit better (*fake flatscreen* or however you'd label it). I can't remember the last time I put the one in the bedroom on. hmmm

We have two (one main, one in a bedroom that gets switched on once a year at most, often just to make sure it still works, really)...

Wife's parents have three (LRoom, Backroom, and spare bedroom)

Still can't think of any more than that. Apart from Mr Richer.

1, for ages it was 0 then someone gave me a TV for free!

We have two, one in the living room, one in the bedroom. In the last house we had three, the two as above and one in the spare room, but we're doing just fine with the two. in fact, the one in the bedroom is only used for the wii and watching DVDs as our aerial's knacked and we haven't got round to putting a feed for Sky in upstairs yet.

1 - no room for any more!

Is it closely related to telly/per/person living in house? Due to people wanting to watch their own progs from time to time? Or am i way off.

i live alone, and have 1 (working). When I lived with parents, over 10 years ago, we had 4 - and there were 4 of us living there. Most of my friends who are in couples now have 2, usually 1 in lounge and 1 in bedroom.

2

1, in the living room. Don't get any stations though, so it's only use is to watch DVDs.

My boyfriends parents have 6. There are two of them in the house.

Gah, missed apostrophe.

4 because I am bourgeois scum.

My boyfriends parents have 6. There are two of them in the house

Where are the other 4 then? In the shed? The Garage? Someone else's house?

2, one of which is my Philips portable which i bought in 1996(!)

Where are the other 4 then? In the shed? The Garage? Someone else's house?

1 in the living room
1 in the kitchen
1 in their bedroom
1 each in the other three spare bedrooms.

xpost - I can top that! My second telly was 20 years old when it packed up last year. I also have a microwave that is at least 27 years old. Also, here on my desk is a calculator that I use most days, I bought it in 1977 and used it during my 'O' levels. I like old stuff.

5, and not only that i have them set up like david bowie in 'the man who fell to earth'

I wldn't trust a 27 yr old microwave: it radiates radiation most probably. ;-)

I voted 2, and then I remembered that my wife has a small one in her study for DVD playback. So 3.

My parents just bought two big flatscreens to replace their CRT sets, so I'm probably going to take one of their old ones to replace the smallish tv in my office.

Maybe the BBC count computer screens as TV sets now they've got their fancy online watching thingy.

1, in the living room. Don't get any stations though, so it's only use is to watch DVDs.

Echo.

^ same

not really true actually
i get really fuzzy reception of fox, pbs and nbc i think
and it is also used to play nintendo
but mostly dvds

Haha, we did this poll in my 4th-grade class. I answered then, as I did just now, with "1" and was amazed at how many TVs some of my classmates had. My friend George had something like eight or nine: one in the bathroom, one in the garage, etc. A couple years later my parents got a small one for their bedroom.

One in the living room; one unplugged in the office (one of those TV/VCR combos); and one down in the crawl space that I once started a thread about throwing it out.

Dr C after using his microwave

I had like 3 tvs once when I lived alone: One in living room, one in bedroom, and third unused in closet. People just kept giving me TVs because there's just a wealth of TVs in this nation.

We have just one now, but I wish I hadn't got rid of my bedroom once. It had maybe a 17" screen and a built-in VCR. I had a routine where I would go to sleep to "A Boy and His Dog." Sometimes it's nice watching movies in bed.

I don't have a living room or a couch so I always watch movies in bed! It's niiiiice.

The dumbest thing I ever did was set up three TVs to watch the 2000 election results. I went to bed at five in the morning hearing multiple pundits in my ears going wau-wau-wau-wau-wau eraserboard.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

1, in the living room. Don't get any stations though, so it's only use is to watch DVDs.

ditto

0, but I just ordered a 42" TV today, because I now get free premium satellite TV. Kind of a waste if I have no TVs, eh?

So i am going to put my super old TV out on the curb. i think. maybe. now.

i haven't gotten another one. and i see tv sets out on the curb all the time! and i think abt them and wonder
am happy with computer

4, but that's largely because we are a household of 3 adults who disagree about a lot of things. Once I move into my own place, it'll be just one.

I think perhaps I shall make a 'how big is your teevee' thread.

2- one in the living room, one in the bedroom. Boring.

"your house"

so are americans allowed to vote in this poll?

1, though I did have 2 for a while when my ex was still with me and he bought a widescreen HD LCD jobby, and we didn't know what to do with the old one. Good thing really, as he took the lcd when we broke up.

And I dont watch tv anyway, so whatevs.

We have two, one in the lounge and one in the bedroom.

My folks' house had 4 I think, one in the lounge, one in the dining room, and one in my folks' and my brother's bedrooms.

I'm wondering if this includes computer monitors.

These are oldish pre-digital TVs, only receiving UK terrestrial channels. The upstairs one was inherited from my parents when they upgraded to a shitty bigscreen digital thing that gives me a fucking headache.

0. I haven't had a TV set since 2001.

but do you tune in nightly to the cracklings of matjes herring over a saimaa-dung fire?

What?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/300px-20_years_of_must_see_tv.jpg

2 in the house, neither in 'our' part of it though. 4.7 seems an insane average but do a lot of kids have their own set in their bedrooms nowadays?

We have 1 in the lounge. Haven't got anywhere to put another one and no need for it!

One in the living room and an unused 14" portable gathering dust in a cupboard.

Once I get my new gaming and beer family room built I'll probably buy a nice big flat screen telly.

I voted three, because I've got a tv card for my PC.
My actual TV sets are in the living room and bedroom, but I hardly ever use the one in the bedroom (it's not even plugged in at the moment).

We have 1, in the livingroom. No TV in the den or bedroom. Can watch DVDs on the iMac in the den if needs be.

What's a den? I thought den was just another word for living room.

Maybe it's Nick's secret hideout where he escapes from his gf during "lingonberry days".

Den / backroom / spareroom / office / study. On the deeds it's down as 'bedroom 1' and the room that we use as a bedroom is 'bedroom 2', but 2 is upstairs and we use 1 as... den / backroom / spareroom / study / office.

This, basically. Futon, comfy chair, desks, iMacs, desk chair, coffee tables, stereo.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/IMG_9324.jpg

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I have that desk!

Also, we've got a TV in the living room and my housemate's got one in her room. I thought two was more than enough for anybody. Too late for the poll, though.

So, no-one has seven televisions.

The ILX average is 1.72, if I knock off the "more than 100" entrant, and have the 7-100 one as "10"

Take that, so called marketing and information group CACI!

BBC RONG

With the average age of ILX being 28/29 according to that other poll, and there therefore not being too many parents of children in the age-group 10-18 (presumably the most likely to have tv's in their bedrooms), it's probably fair to say that ILX isn't totally representative of the population as a whole.

^^^ understatement or wot?

i own two TVs. parents have, um, four.

I don't ILX really is representative... Besides the parent thing, I think the majority of ILXors are upper-class or upper middle-class, and I have hunch upper-class people tend to find television banal and "for the masses" more often than lower-class people, which is why they might invest less to tv sets, or have no tv sets at all. (I don't mean to say tv necessarilly is banal or that lower-class people are more stupid, just that upper-class people are more likely to have this attitude.)

"I don't think"

Personally, I don't think tv or the people who watch it are stupid. The reason I gave my tv set away was that I never watched it anyway, but I don't think that makes me a better person in any way.

you're stupid

Ok.

From the Onion: Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television. Fucking classic, everyone knows this guy. (I also like David Cross's character in Mr. Show that only listens to like wax cylinders and constantly talks about how he hates modern everything.)

Elkins said Green always makes sure to read the copies of Entertainment Weekly and People lying around the shop's break room, "just so he can point out all the stars and shows he's never heard of."

This is most defs not pointed at you Tumoas, btw.

Or Tuomas either!

people must have fewer TVs these days because more people use computers for entertainment etc.?

our flat 3xTV, 1xprojector, 2xcomputer monitors (we threw two away)

2 one is used for video games and one is used for watching.

VIDEO GAME TV TIP: use a small tv for video games, it makes the picture sharper