How many televisions; how much money

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

How many televisions are in your household?
Are they all used?
How much money do you have into them?

We have one TV with broadcast antenna and a DVD player.

We use it in the late evenings.

I can't recall how much we paid, but it is a bulky tube TV with a 21 inch screen. Maybe it is 12 years old. The size is a slight problem in that the public service announcements which scroll on the bottom of the screen many times appear too small to be read. There are times when I do want to be able to read that: school closings, weather alerts.

[bjl584]

2.

A 55" and a 40".

Both are used. One has a DVD. Both have Direct TV.

I'd guess a total of about $1000.

[disneysteve]

We have 3, only 2 are in use. One in the family room. That's a 23" (?) flat screen that we got a few years ago when our tube tv died. It was a couple hundred dollars and I had a tough time finding a screen that small.

We have a 19" (?) tube tv in our bedroom that is 10-15 years old.

We also have a small (15"?) tv/vcr combo in the basement that I bought for the treadmill. I haven't used it in ages. When I'm on the treadmill now, I watch Netflix on my iPhone.

[hamchan]

Oir 10 year old tube died last fall. We replaced it with a flat screen. It was under $200.

[phantom]

We have two TVs.

There's a 42" flat screen in the family room that we bought almost 5 years ago for $300-400. It's hooked up to a PS3 for playing Netflix, DVSs/BluRays, and video games, and it's hooked up to an NES for old school video games, and an antenna for broadcast TV. It might also be hooked up to the VCR sitting under it, but I'm not sure. We use it for Netflix 1-5 times a week, DVDs 1-3 times per month, video games when the mood strikes us, and broadcast TV threes times a year when there's new Sherlock. The PS3 was a door prize from my company Christmas party, the NES was a gift from my parents >20 years ago, the antenna was an extra my dad had lying around, and I have no idea where the VCR came from. We've talked about getting a nice set of speakers for the TV, but it's never happened.

There's a 35" CRT TV in our master bed room. We got it when a previous CRT died about 3 years ago. We found it at a garage sale that I found on Craig's list. I think we got the TV, a card table, and a poker mat for about $30. It's hooked up to a Wii for Netflix and video games, and it's hooked up to a PS2 for DVDs and video games. We use the Wii for Netflix 1-3 times a week, and almost never play video games or watch DVDs. My husband bought the Wii before I met him, and the PS2 was a gift from my parents >10 years ago.

[JulieAlbright]

I guess the only two we have right now are the big one in the family room and then the tv that my college aged son keeps in his bedroom. I just sold our oldest flatscreen a couple of weeks ago and I gave the one that was sitting in our bedroom and never used to my Mom.

I don't know how much my son's cost. He bought it with some of his high school graduation money. It was from WalMart, I'm guessing a couple hundred bucks. The big Plasma was a little over $1000 if I had paid straight up cash, which I didn't. It was a mixture of reward cards that I had gotten from various pay to click sites, credit card awards and then my husband and I split the difference from our own spending savings. It doesn't live permanently here, when he goes back to school the tv goes with him.

Right now it gets basic cable - 10 stations. The comcast rate for Basic TV plus internet is cheaper than the Comcast rate for just high speed internet, which I have to have for my work. We also get Amazon Prime at the student rate.

[disneysteve]

Growing up, we had many tvs. One in each bedroom, one in living room, kitchen, basement, and even in the bathroom, so 7 total, and all were used regularly by a family of 4. We even had a portable TV that could be used in the car (when you could get reception. Heck, I even had a pocket tv that I could carry around with me. We were a tv-connected family for sure. I remember the question came up in school one day and I had the most of anyone in my class.

[BuckyBadger]

Well, I'll throw in a data point from a VERY A/V-focused family.

We have 5 TVs.

One 65 inch flat screen in the media room. I think we spent $3,000 on it. (The speakers up there cost about $4,500.) The speakers we bough after moving. The TV came from our old house and is maybe 3 years old. We spent a lot of time trying to decide if we wanted to go big-TV route or do a projector setup up there and we liked the picture quality of the TV better so we stuck with it.

Bedroom has a 50 inch flat screen. Bought new after we moved, so about 2 years old. Paid about $600.

Downstairs has a 50 inch flat screen of much higher quality. Also 2 years old. Paid about $1500.

Workout room has lower quality 45 inch flat screen. Maybe $300? Also 2 years old.

One ~24 inch flat screen on a stand in the guest room. Had this one for a while - maybe 5 years? Probably cost about $200 when we bought it.

The three main TVs (media room, bedroom, downstairs) all are attached to Direct TV. The guest bedroom just has bunny ears. The workout room only plays DVDs.

We spent a ton of money in the media room, and we spend a lot of time in there. We really appreciate the quality of the experience in there. (Black out curtains, leather recliners, mini fridge setup.) That much investment in one room is obviously not the right choice for everyone.

Most TVs are used daily, although we might not use the media room every day it we're busy. The workout room TV gets used 3-4 times a week. The guest TV only when we have guests over.

[Chrisk]

Have 2 small ones and 1 big in living room. Usually use Netflix for movies and DVD player :] Bought new at the time.

[phantom]

After thinking about this thread a bit more, it occurs to me that while I only have 2 TVs, I have a ton of options for watching video content. Between my husband and I we, have 7 devices that can play Netflix: 2 Kindle Fires, 1 PS3, 1 Wii, a laptop, a desktop, and an iPhone. Several of those devices also get used for YouTube, Hulu, Twitch (streaming video gamers that my husband watches), and sports highlights. I suspect that we would barely miss our bed room TV if it died tomorrow.

Thinking back on my childhood, my mom would never let me have a TV in my room because she worried she'd never see me. Sometimes, she'd also threaten to take away my books if I didn't come out of my room. Ironically, I was one of the only girls I knew allowed to have a phone in my room because other parents had the same fears about girls and phones. But, I hated talking on the phone, so my mom never minded me having a phone. If I were a kid growing up today, I've got to wonder what I'd have to do to convince her that it was alright to let me own a Kindle Fire. Maybe I'd at least convince her to let me own a smart phone.

[97guns]

58" plasma & 48" LCD

not a lot of them but they get used a lot

[HappySaver]

One 26" Sony LCD TV that cost $450 about 3-5 years ago. We rarely watch it now that we no longer have cable. We mostly watch stuff through our computers, and if we want to watch a movie we'll connect the TV so it acts as a monitor.

[MakeAStash]

4 TVs, $0 invested. All were gifts or hand-me-downs. I've never purchased a TV.

[dawnwes]

I am embarrassed to say. We bought two TVs when our income was higher and we paid cash.

We have since added 3 more TVs, all 2nd hand flat screens that are fine.

[edg126]

One 42" flat screen in the living room. Bought 7 years ago for maybe 650?. We use an he antenna. I'll occasionally watch tv or movies on my laptop, but don't pay for a streaming service like Netflix.