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What do you have for TVs?

4 years ago

I was just reading my Costco mailer and marveling at the gigantic size TVs available for the home. And I always notice the plethora of TVs in some real estate listings - one above every fireplace, wall mounted in every bedroom, etc. I think we are on the relatively low end as far as TVs are concerned. The newest one is in the family room at our lake place - it's about 55" I guess. That's the only TV we have up there. At home we have one in our lower-level family room that's about 46" I think and a 30" upstairs in what I describe as the back half of the living area. We probably watch that one the most - usually something in the evening after dinner. We also have a really small one in our bedroom that is only used in the morning for the local news, mostly audio vs. actually watching it. We don't have any room where we'd be far enough away from the TV to have a great big one. Even with the 55" I had to push it all the way to the back of the table it's on for comfortable viewing.

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  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    We have two; one is upstairs in the living room over our fireplace, it’s either a 50 or 55” Samsung frame tv, mostly used to display digital art from a subscription service. When our grandson is here this is where he watches Sesame Street and Daniel Tiger. Our second screen is downstairs in a large family room. It is 72” and takes up most of a wall. Our kids stay on that floor when they visit and watch movies and play video games on that screen.

    When I watch something it's almost always on in my ipad mini.

  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    We have one in each home, both 48" (those weird horizontal msmts). It does appear we are TV-poor.

    However, my TV snobbism has somewhat abated. I used to think it was a horror/shame to have the family sit and watch TV. I now realize the bigger horror is not even sharing that experience, with everyone watching their own thing at their own time, solo. So I now occasionally corral everyone to, horrors of horrors, watch TV together.


    PS Had to look it up, TV has a size of 48 inches diagonally and has a height of 23.5 inches and a width of 41.7 inches.

  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    Just one — it sits on an antique Jacobean buffet in the living room. I’m not sure of the size … just medium, not huge. (ETA: DH just told me 40-something inches.)

    We watch movies/shows at night, or turn it on the classic rock channel for background music.

    Back when I was a kid, we had to get up to turn one of the six channels!



  • 4 years ago

    Two. A 55" Roku in our LR/FR and a really old 19" in our bedroom which I'd like to replace with a slightly larger Roku. I had planned for a TV in both guest rooms but decided against that.

  • 4 years ago

    Just one. Samsung 55" in the library which doubles as our evening tv room.

  • 4 years ago

    I don't have a tv-- when I watch, I use my laptop. I will never have one in my bedroom and didn't really have a need for more than one. When my previous 42" TV died, I decided to wait 3 months before replacing it just to break some poor habits (like staying up too late watching shows I didn't particularly enjoy) After 3 months, I realized that I didn't miss it. It has been 3 years now.

    I will buy a new TV at some point but it isn't something I want to put any time into now. My laptop has a 4K AMOLED screen and the picture is stunning. I would appreciate better sound so when I do replace my TV, I will also replace my soundbar.

  • 4 years ago

    We have ONE, and it is small by today's standards. I see boxes for 80 inchers in my neighbors' trash, and their living rooms are about half the size of ours..

  • 4 years ago

    I just can't give in to the big screen phenomenon. Our sole TV in each house is like 32 inches. I wanted a mount for over the fireplace because there is nowhere else to put one and the AV guy needed to know the size of the TV to bring the right stuff with him. He literally didn't believe me when I told him and he made me remeasure to be sure.

  • 4 years ago

    My TV (32") sits in the dining room, unplugged, ever since I rearranged the living room to accommodate my home office. I stream stuff on my computer. I don't miss the TV.

  • 4 years ago

    Our TV has been disconnected for over a year.

    We watch stuff on my desktop in the bedroom. I just swivel it around. It's probably 22" or something like that. With glasses on, it's fine.

    Prior to 2002 we had a tube TV from 1985-6. We started to notice that shows like Law and Order were very dark. One day there was an old TV in the mailroom and we took it. It almost burnt our retinas when we saw what TV was supposed to look like. I don't think we had an LED TV until 2009 and I think that's the one we still have. I think it's 32 because that was the smallest one we could get.

  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    Four.* Just me in a small house. Two are small 24"-ish in my office and bedroom. Something under 40" in the guest room and a 48" in the LR. The one in the LR sits on a media console angled slightly for viewing. I need a new LR TV as mine is shot. I don't want anything larger than 55" and will have it attached to the wall above where my current one sits. My room dimensions and arrangement are begging for me to place it over the fireplace, but it's just too high. I want the screen at seated eye-level.

    I have YouTubeTV and love it. I pay 1/3 of what DirecTV was gouging me for. I get everything I need and more. I love how easy it is to log into my account wherever I am and watch TV on my iPad or iPhone.

    *All the TVs not currently in the LR are old ones shuffled off to other rooms rather than being given away.

  • 4 years ago

    Honest to goodness, I do not know how to turn on or off our TVs in either home. The one in Maine disappears into a cabinet when you push a button; that I can do.

  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    I'm a little embarassed to admit how many TVs we have in our house. We have 6 I think. Our main TV is in the main floor living room and I think it's a 65" and wall-mounted (not above the fireplace). I wanted the smaller 55" but my husband insisted it was too small and opted to return it for a 65". We also have a TV in our bedroom and the guest bedroom and our guests have really appreciated having it there. My husband has tinnitis and TV/movies are the only thing that help him fall asleep over the ringing. I've learned to cope since I fall asleep pretty easily so that's how we ended up with TVs in the bedrooms. Additionally I have 2 gym rooms (just bedrooms in the basement really), one for cardio and one for weights and a TV in each of those. And then we have a basement family room where we stuck our old TV that's too old to even be wall mounted. I'm not sure what sizes are in the bedrooms or the basement, but they're all fairly small. Oh and we have no cable, just a handful of streaming services (some that we may drop once a certain streaming service decides that people who have paid for extra streams are no longer allowed to share).

  • 4 years ago

    I have two and they are both 32 inch. I live alone, in a 1914 Craftsman, and there’s no wall space for a bigger one. Both are TCL smart TVs, and the one in my bedroom has cable. I almost never use the one in the living room; it’s in a cabinet because I don’t like the look of a visible TV in my living room. (Maybe I should get rid of it, this post is now making me think!). There’s something about a giant TV I find disturbing- they make me feel weird physically somehow- but I do wish I had a spot in my bedroom that would work for a slightly larger screen, like a 43 inch; I just don’t have a workable place for it.

  • 4 years ago

    We have 4. The largest is 38". The one in the keeping room sits out in the open. The one in the living room is in an armoire and hidden behind doors. Dh has a smaller one in his office and we have an even smaller one in the bedroom.



  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    3 : a Roku TV in the BR that's rarely ever used, a small flat screen, DVD player combo next to my desktop, and there's a 40" one in the LR. We have Rokus on the 2 we mainly use. Hubby & I hardly ever watch TV together - very different tastes 🙃

  • 4 years ago

    We have one in our family room. I think it’s 65 inches which sounds huge. We had started with 55” but returned it as the distance from the couch to the TV made it diffucult to see detail. No tv at our beach house. Sorry. Not sorry.

  • 4 years ago

    We have three. The family room TV is 65 inches. It‘s on a slightly larger console table. The one in the basement playroom is 55 inches and wall mounted. It’s rarely used. Mainly if my teenagers have friends over, and there’s a big game on. We have a very small TV (not sure of the size) on the kitchen counter. It’s mainly used for watching news/weather in the morning.

  • 4 years ago

    We have 4 in PA, but only one is really used. One is in the bedroom my dad stays in when he visits because he's a TV addict. One in the great room, which we watch maybe one show every two or three days. One in the sunroom, and one in the gathering room which has now turned playroom and I don't think that even works any more, it's been years since we turned it on since I don't like the kids to watch TV.


    B is three and when someone mentioned a movie in front of him the other day, he said "What's a movie." He does have a DVD player in the car because otherwise long car trips are a misery. And I let him watch stuff on my phone when he gets stuck in the stroller on long dog walks. Mostly Blippi.


    In Florida, we have 3 too. Our biggest is 72 inches. We have a media room there which houses the 72 incher and which is almost entirely unused.


    We are getting close to buying a camper and I find it sad when the campers have outside TVs built in because I feel like you could be enjoying nature and family when camping! I guess they are probably more for tailgating, though.

  • 4 years ago

    We have lots. Right now we have a 55" plasma in our FR that will soon be replaced with a 65" OLED. Then we have a small one in the cabinet over the fridge....DH likes to sit at the island and watch tv while he reads the a.m. paper. He also has a small one in his study where he sits in his leather chair and mainlines cnbc. I have one in the bedroom which puts me to sleep every night, and we have one downstairs in the exercise room for when we work out. The one in the guest room doesn't even have a cable box, but I suppose if guests brought a firestick or such they could use it. I had one in my craft room that was very old and I never used it so I'm getting rid of it.

  • 4 years ago

    None at my house. If I want to watch something, it's on my laptop. I have Hulu, have my daughter-in-law's password for Netflix, have a friend's password for Prime video and another friend's password for HBO. I seldom watch much except on Hulu. I had a free trial of Apple TV and watched The Morning Show and Ted Lasso before it expired. When the new season of those shows are released, I'll have to re-subscribe to watch them.

  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    I have one. It’s 40-something inches. Maybe 42? 48? It’s getting up in years. We had it when we moved out here in 2014, and I think the Apple TV and TiVo are both just as old. It’s in the living room. I really need to optimize my cable/streaming situation but inertia has set in. I’ve promised myself that when the TV or TiVo dies I’ll get a new Smart TV and cut the cable entirely.

  • 4 years ago

    We have a 13” (diagonal) tv in the kitchen. Oh, and it’s analog, so it has a rabbit ear and a signal converter.

    We had a, I think it’s 24” in the living room, but for the last Olympics we moved it to the basement so DH can watch the BBC while on the treadmill. Rabbit ear there, too.

    For those Olympics, we borrowed my parents’ 48”, and wow, what a difference from the littler one. Only problem, it doesn’t fit in the same space, so for now it’s on an old coffee table, and we had to move it to a corner because we have to be further away from it. (coincidentally, the day we brought it over, there was a break-in at my parents’ unoccupied house. Nothing taken, because nothing to steal, including the tv, but they did break the latio door and rip the alarm control pad off the wall. grr grr.)

    The big living room tv is such an anomaly. Rabbit ear for broadcast, but it’s a smart tv and I had just received an Amazon Fire stick, too.

    For a household with tech people living in it, our tech for living is pretty strange!

  • 4 years ago

    Our TV room has a 70" OLED, which I very rarely watch but DH loves it. I have a 36" in the bedroom ( he likes ) and I have a 24" in the kitchen on while cooking. There is a 40" something in a guest room that I hear works but I never do anything but dust it. I am more of a reader than a TV person.

  • 4 years ago

    In our PA house, we have 2. A 50" in the LR and a 32" in the guest room. Never had a TV in our bedroom. We did however have a bag with 12 remotes in it(I counted!). I think a remote for every TV we've had for the last 42 years. And I had to convince my dh to throw the bag away!.

    In CA, we have a 55" in the LR. We are bringing the 32" with us and will use it for guests.

  • 4 years ago

    2. One in the LR, which is an old flatscreen. I don't watch much tv, so it's fine for me. The second one is huge (I've never measured it, but my kids picked it out) with a much higher quality screen. It's in our media room in the basement. I also have my workout equipment there, so I watch it when exercising.

  • 4 years ago

    We did however have a bag with 12 remotes in it(I counted!). I think a remote for every TV we've had for the last 42 years. And I had to convince my dh to throw the bag away!.


    Hi, Can your husband write a note to my husband and let him know he has been able to live a full and happy life without these 12 remotes? Thank you.

  • 4 years ago

    We have three. A 32" in this office, same in our bedroom, and a 40-something in the living room. We watch the living room TV much less than I'd anticipated, to the point I can't say with certainty what size we bought. All are Samsung about 10 years old and I much prefer the sound with Samsung over the Vizio they replaced.

    The bedroom TV comes out of a wall niche on a swivel arm that we didn't install. If it were any larger, I don't think I could focus on it. I'd really prefer it on the wall opposite the bed. I don't quite understand people with smaller rooms wanting such large televisions - they give me eye-strain from being too close ;)

  • 4 years ago

    65” SONY OLED 4K here and couldn’t be happier with it! Awesome for movies and sports. It is like you are there. We also cast a lot to the TV such as concert livestreams, sports, etc. Bought it as a 15th anniversary present in 2021 vs. going for a trip. The picture is just beautiful. It is so thin it is like a cell phone. I can’t imagine watching a 32”. that seems so small. Our old TV, the 46” LCD Samsung finally died, so we will look for another one for the back office, though we rarely use that one, and there’s no huge urgency. If you wan the OLED 4K the SONY and the LG had the best pictures at the time looked. Also couldn’t decide between 55” and 65” but really either could have worked. The 55” is the same geographic size as the 46” but now with TV’s there is no frame and the screen goes right to the edge,



  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    My Costco has a 65" Sony OLED on display (not sure if it's 4K or not) and I have never seen such a beautiful picture. It puts all the others along the aisle to shame.

  • 4 years ago

    We have 4. The main one is 48” and it lives in the built-ins in our family room (not the fireplace. We have one mounted on the brick wall of our back porch that is on a mount that can be swiveled so dh can see the game either on the porch or down in the patio/grilling area.

    We have a small(ish) one in our master that is hardly ever used, and OMG dh bought the biggest TV I have ever seen in a home for the playroom. I think it is 90” but it may be 96”. The mount is huge, and of course it took two guys to hang it. I barely use it, but dh loves watching games up there. It is kind of fun to have movie night with it bc it truly has tha theater look. Kids love it when they are home from college. 🤷‍♀️

  • 4 years ago

    Here are some photos from the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert from Wembley stadium. Right, Bunny that’s why we bought it. The LG were closest next.

  • 4 years ago

    We have 4 tv sets - the one in the kitchen is a small pedestal mount and it sits on a shelf where I can watch while prepping. The other 3 are the same size and I think they're 65 inches. One is in the family room on a console table, one in DH's study on the seond floor and the third is in our bedroom mounted on a swivel, telescoping arm inside DH's closet.


  • 4 years ago

    I have this one.

    Kidding. That was at my mothers until recently when i had to have it hauled away to make space for something else. As you can see, she had a flat screen sitting on top of it


    I have a dumb 40 inch that i got at costco years ago and an old fashioned little box type tv in my besroom that i only watch when i dry my hair.. I could live happily without a tv. Id watch some things on my ipad.

  • 4 years ago

    We have 3 TV's: 55 inch in Family/Living room, 55 inch in bonus/workout room and one in our guest suite. I do not know how to operate any of them.

  • 4 years ago

    I have no idea what size our TVs are because they came with the house. All wall mounted, we removed three. The LR TV is in a framed niche deep enough to make to flush. So we are down to 4. I could remove 2 and be happy with more art.


    Before we moved, DS called to ask if I could meet him at Costco to help him pick up a TV. At the time, I had a full size Lexus SUV. The back was decent size and when the seats down, even better. The dang box barely fit! It is in their LR. I cannot imagine having a TV that big.


    Growing up, my sister and I received a TV for Christmas. We did not share a room, and it came on a rolling "wood look" cart, so when it was your week, you got to move it to your room. :-/ My father owned a furniture store that sold TVs, so you'd think we would have both gotten one.


    Who remembers the 1990s 13" TV with built in VCR? My dad gave us his Sony monitor back then. Heaviest TV we've owned. Flat screens are the best thing to ever happen to our backs.

  • 4 years ago

    2. One upstairs in the living room 60" one down in the family room, 45". We had an original 75" that heated up the entire room we inherited when my in laws died.

  • 4 years ago

    We have one in the kitchen. One in the weight room. One in the living room, we rarely watch it there. Then a Roku, my favorite in the spare bedroom. We've started sleeping in there lately. It's so cozy and quiet. Then a dedicated theatre room....we've stopped using...the new cats won't settle down and leave us in peace if we try watching anything in there. Our old cat loved "movie night" in the theatre room. He loved sleeping in my husbands lap. Those two bonded over movie night. ❤️

  • 4 years ago

    I have six. An 80” in the family room - for watching movies and sports - and various 40-55” tvs in the living room, both college kids’ bedrooms, and our bedroom. And a 32” in the basement in front of the treadmill, for watching cooking videos while I exercise.

  • last year

    Sounds like AI.