For those of you with a living room or multiple rooms; do you have a TV in your bedroom? Why or why not?
For those of you with a living room or multiple rooms; do you have a TV in your bedroom? Why or why not?
I have a smart watch that can detect when I fall asleep. I would love it if there was a way to sync that time stamp with when I started a movie and automatically fast forward to 5 mins before then.
It would have to be some third party integration so the streaming service doesn’t harvest the data and decide to stop making things I enjoy because I had a long day.
No TV in the bedroom, just the living room. I do find comfort at times from a soft livestream, but I normally sleep better in quiet darkness.
I understand the hard-line approach, but for me it’s situational. A laptop for those times is sufficient.
Idk if my answer counts here, I technically have a “living room” in my flat but I’ve got it set up as an office. So, nowhere else for the TV to go except my bedroom.
If I had space to put it in my living room, I’d probably still want a smaller one in my bedroom. There are some YT channels I love watching before falling asleep.
We’ve generally avoided a TV in the bedroom. When we were given a second hand TV from a family member that was better than our living room TV, we mounted the old TV in our bedroom. We used it maybe 10 times over 2-3 years.
Now we live elsewhere and only have 1 TV in the living room again.
The bedroom needs to be a low tech place, for optimal rest.
I would actually prefer that 90% of the time. I hate having to watch TV with someone else, I either miss what’s on it or feel awkward when I have to rewind, then people have this warped perception that I care what they are trying to tell me as if it’s not obvious I’m watching something on the TV so my focus is elsewhere.
My usage of a TV in the common room is when I’m feeling social or want to have whitenoise, any serious watching is strictly in my den or bedroom
In smaller places, yes. It was the video game window.
In bigger places later on no. Bedroom is for sleeping.
My TV is mounted to the wall above my computer desk in my bedroom. I have no SO, and so, it doesn’t matter.
But, yeah, people who want the TV on “for background noise” drive me nuts. Although I did have mine showing a screensaver slide show of vacation pictures for a while. Seemed like a waste, so I stopped.
My partner and I don’t have ANY tv’s.
Neither of us are super into TV or film in a way that builds creativity or community (we don’t critique the technical or artistic merits of pieces, and we aren’t into anime or other genres where there’s potential to build a community around a shared passion). When we turn on the TV, it’s to turn off our brains. We decided to not build a shrine to turning off our brains.
We have a laptop with a good screen and speakers that we use when we want to watch something together.
Multiple rooms, no TV in the living room but I do have one in our bedroom.
I don’t like watching TV with friends, especially new ones. If we do want to watch something, they come upstairs and sit on the couch.
No TV at all, and no social media other than federated platforms and YouTube these days, and I only use alternative no algo clients for YouTube. If I hear about something to watch, I sail the high seas, find it, watch it. If I like it, it goes into my backups.
One of these days I might buy an old ass TV and set up a JellyFin server, but I’m fine with my 1080p monitor. I only watch like 2 shows at a time max, and keep up with like 5 or 6 YT channels. No time and no need for others.
Admittedly, my computer is in my bedroom though. I always have had my computer in my bedroom though, so that’s just a personal taste thing.
I don’t have a place of my own, I certainly don’t own any TVs. However, whenever I stay somewhere with a TV, it is ignored. I don’t turn it on. If I had a place of my own I wouldn’t have a TV, anywhere.
Most people do have TVs though, but I would say only about a third keep one in the bedroom.
I have one in my bedroom from my ex: she used to goto sleep listening to the news.
It was never able to pick up broadcast tv and I got rid of cable years ago, but it has an ancient ChromeCast that works fine.
… amusing story about that: the other day I wanted to watch at movie on my tablet but accidentally hit to broadcast. The tv turned on for the first time in years, but you can’t turn it off that way, I have no idea where the remote is, and a software update years ago broke integration with my home automation. I was trying to sleep and there was no way to turn this thing off - I had to get up, move a dresser and unplug it. Annoying as heck
where else am I supposed to watch my pornos?
ofc there’s a TV in the bedroom. one in the bathroom, the kitchen, the laundry room, the family room, the living room, the dining room, the breakfast nook, all the bedrooms, the office, the garage, the patio.
For heavens sake, no. There is a TV in the living room, and a small one in the studio. A TV does not belong in any bedroom.
Especially not a modern “smart” TV with built-in microphones…