Do you have a large TV, if so how much to do you use it?

[Gunslinger08]

Living Room - 50", used daily
Bedroom - 40", used a few nights a week and some on the weekends
Basement - ~100", used weekly

 

[corwin]

60" Plasma in the living room (brand new LG 3D for just shy of $1300)
50" PLasma in Bedroom
47" LCD in guest/workout room

Living room is used all the time, bedroom most nights for news, guest room when my wife is on the treadmill or a guest is visiting and being anti-social

 

[nickbits]

65" in the family room. It is the most used TV used in the house and is used several hours a day.

 

[shiner]

73" in the media room. Used daily.

46" in the master bedroom, used pretty much every day depending on what shit the wife is watching in the media room.

42" in the exercise room, used daily.

32" in my home office, used daily. Watching an episode of Farscape as I type this.

Kids both have 40" in their bedrooms, used daily.

20" in the kitchen, used mostly on the weekends when I'm making breakfast for everyone.

 

[rcpratt]

Kids both have 40" in their bedrooms, used daily.

Boy, that's sure not how I was raised.

 

[shiner]

Boy, that's sure not how I was raised.

Yeah, me neither. I think I was 11 or 12 when I got a teeny tiny black & white TV in my room. First real TV I had was when I went to college.

 

[nageov3t]

I grew up in a house with a tv in every room and it always bothered the fuck out of me.

I'm pretty happy with only one tv in my house... never really got the point of tv's in the bedroom or the kitchen (although I would put one in my home office if I had a cable hookup, but I haven't felt like going through the hassle of running cox through the basement... I'll just pop open my laptop to play music or watch hulu/netflix while using my dual-monitor'd desktop for work)

 

[Riverhound777]

50" Kuro Plasma in living room. Only TV I have. Use it daily and love it!

 

[ThePresence]

Only one we have is a 50" plasma, I only use it for sports or some newsworthy event, the wife will sometimes watch a Lifetime movie or Desperate Housewives or something. Mostly the kids watch Barney or something on it. In my office I have a 50", but it's got the CCTV on it, so it doesn't count.

Office pic:

 

[Wyndru]

I have a 46" LCD on the wall in my man cave, yet I don't ever watch TV so it rarely gets used. If I do watch it's in our living room and on an old 27" tube TV.

 

[Texashiker]

Boy, that's sure not how I was raised.

Neither was I.

My brother and I did not get a TV in our rooms until we were teenagers, and then it was some small TV that only had like 13 channels and no remote. "Back in the day" of when you wanted to turn the channel, you had to get up and turn the knob by hand.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I have 3 Panasonic plasmas (a 42" in my man cave, a 50" in our master bedroom, and a newer 50" in our living room). All are used quite a bit for TV, movies, and gaming. Thinking about upgrading the man cave TV.

 

[rcpratt]

Neither was I.

My brother and I did not get a TV in our rooms until we were teenagers, and then it was some small TV that only had like 13 channels and no remote.

I never had a TV in my room, although granted I wasn't a big TV watcher in high school besides sports. I was also never allowed a computer in my room until I got my laptop before I went off to school.

But I realize I'm probably in the minority on both of those, especially these days. And I'm only 23.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Boy, that's sure not how I was raised.

Me either, but he probably upgraded TVs and just gave the kids the hand-me-downs. I'd do it too if I had kids.

 

[Doboji]

I have a 58" in the living room that we use like crazy... not just for TV. We have GoogleTV so we do a fair amount of Web browsing... watching home videos... picture slide shows etc etc.

We also have a 42" in the bedroom... which allows my wife and I to watch Football games in one room, and Top Chef in the other at times. We use the 42" very rarely... usually for just Sunday Night/Monday Night Football

 

[ThePresence]

Neither was I.

My brother and I did not get a TV in our rooms until we were teenagers, and then it was some small TV that only had like 13 channels and no remote. "Back in the day" of when you wanted to turn the channel, you had to get up and turn the knob by hand.

I could never figure out why those knobs had to have that annoying clickity click sound. Why not make it easy to turn and silent?

 

[ThePresence]

I never had a TV in my room, although granted I wasn't a big TV watcher in high school besides sports. I was also never allowed a computer in my room until I got my laptop before I went off to school.

But I realize I'm probably in the minority on both of those, especially these days. And I'm only 23.

We did not have a TV at all in our home growing up.

 

[Cutterhead]

We have a 56" Samsung DLP from 2005 that just died on us last weekend. I tried replacing the bulb but no luck. It's not worth the hundreds of dollars it would cost to fix it IMO, so we are now in the market for a replacement.

BJ's has a 55" Samsung LED smart TV for $1099 on Black Friday that I am considering.

 

[DnetMHZ]

61" in the living room, used daily.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Size should not be the sole determining factor. I bought a 42" Westinghouse a few years back because the price was right. I replaced it a year and a half later with a 52" Samsung. The Samsung was bigger, obviously, but even if it had been the same size, the level of detail was staggering. It was so much better to look at; there's really no comparison. They're both 1080P, so the pixels are smaller on the Westinghouse, which you'd think would make it seem sharper... but no, not even close. In literally every regard to picture quality (color reproduction and accuracy, geometry, contrast, ghosting, etc.) the Samsung absolutely destroys the cheaper set.

Yeah, you can get a large Westinghouse or Vizio for a few hundred bucks now, but honestly, the picture quality of the high-end brands is so much better that I personally would rather have a much smaller Samsung or Sony than a large Westinghouse (price being equal). I'd do some research, read some reviews and go for a panel which has good quality so that you don't end up unhappy with your purchase. My Samsung is now two and a half years old and I still get people telling me that it's the best looking TV they've seen.

In response to how often it gets used, daily, without fail. We live in a TV heavy house.

 

[ConwayJim]

We only have a 32" in the living room, and we only watch TV sometimes. We usually just sit/talk/read...

 

[SlitheryDee]

Size should not be the sole determining factor. I bought a 42" Westinghouse a few years back because the price was right. I replaced it a year and a half later with a 52" Samsung. The Samsung was bigger, obviously, but even if it had been the same size, the level of detail was staggering. It was so much better to look at; there's really no comparison. They're both 1080P, so the pixels are smaller on the Westinghouse, which you'd think would make it seem sharper... but no, not even close. In literally every regard to picture quality (color reproduction and accuracy, geometry, contrast, ghosting, etc.) the Samsung absolutely destroys the cheaper set.

Yeah, you can get a large Westinghouse or Vizio for a few hundred bucks now, but honestly, the picture quality of the high-end brands is so much better that I personally would rather have a much smaller Samsung or Sony than a large Westinghouse (price being equal). I'd do some research, read some reviews and go for a panel which has good quality so that you don't end up unhappy with your purchase. My Samsung is now two and a half years old and I still get people telling me that it's the best looking TV they've seen.

In response to how often it gets used, daily, without fail. We live in a TV heavy house.

How much did you pay for it? If you got it at a significant discount, what was it selling for normally?

 

[BurnItDwn]

106 inch in the basement, I watch all my movies down there, usually at least 4 or 5 days a week. I also now have a PC hooked up down there and play games that don't work well on eyefinity... I have a sofa and dual recliners down there, so can comfortably seat 5, or with bean bag chairs in the front and extra chairs in the back, can seat 10.

I have a LCD in the living room as well which is used for general use TV ... but that's a little one (42 inch.)

 

[IGBT]

I use mine for netflix and DVD's. I don't use cable or sat. It's only TV.

 

[Apple Of Sodom]

We have a 55" in the living room for TV and Xbox/Kinect/Wii. It is pretty informal and it gets used a lot.

110" screen in theater (projection) for PS3/Xbox and movies/special TV events. It gets used a few times per week (mostly on weekend) and I absolutely love it.