Current Events > How many TVs is "normal" for a one family house?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Assuming 4 people (Mom, Dad, two teenage children) live in the house.

And this is TVs, not "screens" such as phones, tablets, etc.

1-4. It's not strange to have only one central TV. It's not strange to have one for the living room and each bedroom. More than 4 would be a little strange unless there are guest rooms.

Id think at least 5.

Parents bedroom
Kid 1 bedroom
Kid 2 bedroom
Living room
Another in an additional room (kitchen, guest room, etc)

Two at the most. One in the family room and maybe one in the parent's room, if they want. Kids don't need a television in their room.

0. Are you living in the 90's or something? Everyone uses phones nowadays.

I live by myself and I have 3. :(

We have 3, one of which is never used.

4

1 32" tube tv in the living room and everyone argues about what to watch.

Id say four. One for each kid, one main room tv, and one for the parents

2
Family room and other gathering area

No tvs in bedrooms

Growing up my dad was a weirdo. We had a TV in just about every room and sometimes multiple ones in the same room. Only the bathrooms and laundry room didn't have a TV. When I was very young there was a little portable TV that had antenna built in in the main bathroom, though, lmao.

Was cool always having nice TVs, but it was a total waste of money, lol.

2 for my room (helps to double console games)
1 living room
1 bedroom (roommate)

1-4 depending on the type of family. I grew up always having a TV in my bedroom in addition to the living room TV. But I know families that only had 1 TV in the living room

I have one in each living room and one in a guest bedroom.

2-3

1 in living room
1 in den
1 in a bedroom

If a house doesn't have a den then one in a second bedroom.

Nemu posted...

1-4. It's not strange to have only one central TV. It's not strange to have one for the living room and each bedroom. More than 4 would be a little strange unless there are guest rooms.

Agreed.

1.

1 for each living room. 1 for each bedroom.

One for each kid, one for the parents, one for the living room. I'd say that's pretty standard. House size would be a factor too though.

Reason I asked, is because I have 6.

Living Room
My Bedroom
Each Kid's room (2)
Basement
Office/Spare Bedroom (Strictly used for gaming)

bigblu89 posted...

Reason I asked, is because I have 6.

Living Room
My Bedroom
Each Kid's room (2)
Basement
Office/Spare Bedroom (Strictly used for gaming)

That is much higher than the 2.5 average in the US.

It's not excessive until you have one in the shower, then it also becomes awesome.

ellis123 posted...

That is much higher than the 2.5 average in the US.

Apparently.

The basement one rarely gets used. Usually just for the overflow when we have our annual Super Bowl party.

I'm actually kind of surprised that the average is only 2.5, as you can get really good 27-35 inch TVs for fairly cheap nowadays.

One for the living room.

and one per bedroom.

Thats how i've done it.

My kids never had TV's in their rooms. It makes them anti-social (and they can just watch Netflix on their computers anyways)

Growing up as a family of four, I believe we had 3 TVs total. One in the living room, one in my bedroom, and one in my sister's bedroom. My TV was mostly used to play video games since no one else in the family played.

I don't think it's uncommon to have 1 per bedroom plus one in the living room and maybe one in the dining room.

bigblu89 posted...

Apparently.

The basement one rarely gets used. Usually just for the overflow when we have our annual Super Bowl party.

I'm actually kind of surprised that the average is only 2.5, as you can get really good 27-35 inch TVs for fairly cheap nowadays.

Most people just don't use more than one TV, if they even have one. Just like with economics, the average is heavily skewed by some people having dramatically more than the average. In this case 31% of Americans have 5+ TV, meaning that there is a *very* non-trivial amount of the 69% of everyone else with 2 or less TVs.

At least one in every room, including closets

I grew up in a household with at least 8 of us so we had a few TVs spread out. 1 in the living room, 1 in this area my dad is commonly at (other side of the kitchen counter its a space next to the back door) where the family PC+modern/router and all that is at. One tiny little TV on the kitchen counter. 1 in the girl's room, 2 in us boy's room (eventually spent my own money to buy my very first not hand-me-down'd TV. It was one of those HD fat-back 1080i/720p samsung TVs. Playing in that sweet 720p for halo 2 on the OG xbox and progressive scan PS2 star ocean 3, lol)...I had the TV I bought on the left side of the room and the other TV on the right. My parent's had 1 in their bedroom.

7 overall for our sorta' big family of my parents, older brother, me, two nephews, and two neices.

For a family of 4, assuming there is a living room mainly used for when guests/family come over, 1 for this living room, 1 each for the teenager's rooms if they have seperate rooms (or sharing 1 TV for sharing a room), 1 for the parent's room, and 1 more for whatever random placement.

One for each room, two in each bedroom.

Three for the main bathroom.

We have 3 in the house.

Family room
Guest bedroom
Home office

Absolutely no TVs in our master bedroom, kids' bedrooms or the living room. However when we set up our basement to be the home entertainment center, I'll put in the best damn TV I can afford in there.

We have 2 - one in the living room and one in our bedroom. Our kids prefer to use their tablets.

TVs are cheap as hell now. This anything to worry about.