Average Home Has More TVs Than People

Forbes ^ | 9/21/06 | David Bauder

[verum ago]

The average American home now has more television sets than people. That threshold was crossed within the past two years, according to Nielsen Media Research. There are 2.73 TV sets in the typical home and 2.55 people, the researchers said.

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David and Teresa Leon of Schenectady, N.Y. and their four-year-old twins have seven sets, plus an eighth they haven't set up yet. They include TVs in both the parents' and kids' bedrooms, the family and living rooms and one in the kitchen that is usually turned to a news station.

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In the average home, a television set is turned on for more than a third of the day - eight hours, 14 minutes, Nielsen said. That's an hour more than it was a decade ago. Most of that extra TV viewing is coming outside of prime time, where TVs are on only four minutes more than they were 10 years ago.

The average person watches four hours, 35 minutes of television each day, Nielsen said.

[verum ago]

8 tvs for 4 year old twins?!

[Gordongekko909]

My house has one TV, four people. I watch maybe an hour, when I watch TV at all.

My internet habits, on the other hand...

[MikefromOhio]

I have 3 TVs and it's just me and the wife...

I'm in this group....

[MNJohnnie]

Which is a sign of the vast material prospertiy of the American people. Intresting how the people most blessed with riches of all the world's people spend the MOST time whining about the "bad" economy. Nonsense, few Americans are left alive today who have really seen a BAD Economy.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

8 tvs for 4 year old twins?!

No. Two TV's.

One for each child. I assume the rest are for parent or family watching.

Don't think I would let kids have TV's in their bedroom though.

[JRandomFreeper]

What is a teledivisor device?

Is it something like a newsing paper?

/johnny

[sionnsar]

One TV in the house. Used for watching DVDs.

[mysterio]

I spend much more time on the internet than watching tv.

[verum ago]

ah... let me change that....

8 tv's for four people?!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Me too.

I have three. One LCD that I use, one tube that I keep meaning to get rid of and one portable battery operated in case of blackout.

[verum ago]

tv's..... building material of the future!

[TomServo]

Makes sense since I also have more rooms than people in my house.

[StevieJ]

none here - haven't had a TV since 1995

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I have three and I am just me.

[Ainast]

3 tv's
1 projector with 72" screen
3 computers with 5 monitors (total)
1 computer not plugged into a monitor
1 gamecube, 2 N64's, 1 Dreamcast, 2 Dvd Players, 1 VCR, 1 Directv Reciever (No DVR Yet)
1 Stereo System

And all of this is just inside my room (see my profile for a picture of my computers)

In the rest of the house there is a tv in the living room, kitchen, bedroom #1, bedroom #2 and a computer in the living room and in bedroom #2.

Try and rob my house and you will find out how many guns I have really quick.

[sgtbono2002]

Many people use a TV set like they use pacifiers for their kids. Adult pacifiers.

[verum ago]

Try and rob my house and you will find out how many guns I have really quick.

ah, that reminds now of the original comment I was going to post: "now if we could just get the number of guns to equal that of tvs..."

[Ainast]

lol.

[Tax-chick]

In my house, 10 people and one working TV, plus one that will show a video on some occasions. You have to jostle it around just right, because the kids have toys stuck inside!

[GSlob]

"8 tvs for 4 year old twins?!"
Well, a person with two ears could [in theory, at least] simultaneously listen to two different sources. [ditto for the visual input through two eyes]. The information processing in real time could require a split personality, though. Thus nothing could be more natural than 2 simultaneously working [on different channels] TV sets per nose. Now, two Leons parents and their two twins make 4 Leons altogether, and thus up to 8 TVs are perfectly usable in such a setting.