For those of you with a living room or multiple rooms; do you have a TV in your bedroom? Why or why not?

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For those of you with a living room or multiple rooms; do you have a TV in your bedroom? Why or why not? - Lemmy.zip

I haven’t had a TV in my bedroom in over 20 years. I had an ex who always wanted it on all the time, even to sleep to, and it drove me crazy.

No, but like, I didn’t buy the tv I have in the living room. My mom forced it on me. It doesn’t have a cable package and I rarely turn it on. There’s no reason to throw it away, but if it were up to me, I probably would have no tv at all. Kind of a 20th century appliance.
I already have a magical rectangle my dumb ass likes to look at already. I don’t want another.
I do have a tv in my bedroom, so I can hook up my consoles, and PC and stuff :3. However we do not currently have a tv downstairs in the living room
Pretty neat if you’re interested in missing all the movies’ endings.

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.

I think samsung or android does this. I noticed that my tablet at night will randomly be paused on a black screen and when I wake it it’ll be paused on a video around 5 or 10 minutes after I fell asleep, it’s creepy but I guess it helps me not miss my videos

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.

The TV is used by everyone in the household, so it stays in the living room. Anyone who wants one in their bedroom has to buy it themselves.

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.

No TV in my bedroom. The only time we spend in there is sleeping.
Exactly this. Preferably also no phone, but since they are easier to move around it happens…
Yes, TV in the bedroom and in the living room. Living room setup is for sharing with roommates and the kid. Bedroom gets used as our personal living room when everyone else is sleeping.
I have a… less than smart TV hanging upside down in my bedroom. I only used it to watch The X-Files in there using my Steam Deck when I brought my second Maine Coon kitty home. I don’t even think I have a remote for it. Figured some time in there would be good so she can start to smell like the house. She tucks me in when I go to bed every night so I did something right. TV is still there but has not been used in a few years. Since it is hanging from the ceiling it is easily forgotten and out of the way.
Yes because there’s 5 different people not counting a baby that all have different interests in my house. The only time we really come together to watch TV is for sports.
So you just sit in different rooms watching different things alone?
Not getting along kinda helps but for the most part yeah.

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

The common room TV usually has reruns of The Simpsons playing simply because everyone can agree on that lol
One of the few things we agree on with my spouse is not having a TV in the bedroom. The TV in the living room and our PCs are enough, the bedroom is for sleeping.
We have no tv. None.
I do not have a “TV” in my bedroom but I do have a tablet that I use for videos at night I like falling asleep listening to YouTube or twitch
“No screens in the bedroom” was supposed to to help me sleep years ago, it didn’t really matter if they’re in there or not but I still keep to the rule.
We listen to music, read, has the sexes and other things but no TV in the bedroom. Always a rule for us.
Have 5 TVs throughout the house, has grown so much over the years. Most families here have 3 to 4 TVs
Where is “here”?
Right now, no. But I plan on upgrading to a bigger screen, so the current living room tv might be delegated to the bedroom, if I don’t end up selling it.
I have computer in my room with TV above it and watch movies on it when living room is occupied.

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.

No TV in the bedroom! That’s for rich people, like people who have ice makers in the fridge and the whiring blades in the sink!
Technically I have multiple TV’s only because I wanted multiple large high resolution screens for my computer. I don’t actually use them as TV’s.

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.

I have a cheap tv in my bedroom but I hardly ever use it. Anything I want to watch I would rather use my main TV in the living room, and even that’s rare these days. I pretty much only put on the bedroom tv when I’m folding clothes.
I don’t have a TV in my house, technically. I’ve got a projector in the living room but that only works at night. All the TV we watch is just on laptops or tablets.
I don’t own a TV anymore, I just don’t really care about shows and I rarely watch movies.
Yes. It’s wall mounted. But I haven’t bothered plugging it in and I’m not sure where the remote has gone.

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.

I don’t need a TV in a bedroom, I got screens all over the house and garage, but not in there lol.

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.

Absolutely not. There is one TV and it is in the living room. We actually have two ‘living rooms’ (spaces that are not bathroom, bedroom, or kitchen) and if it was up to me the TV would be in the secondary one, farthest from kitchen and bedroom. I do sometimes like to watch TV but don’t want it in my face all the time, and think living room looks better without one. But everyone else wants it in the bigger living room, which also holds the kitchen.
Sure do. I have a tv in my living room, my man cave, the primary bed room and the guest room.
I have my old old TV from a pawn shop mounted on the wall in the bedroom. Still works. Good enough to hook up a streaming box to and watch something before passing out. Many a nights it has been something mindless like the Office or Parks and Rec

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

It would definitely still have some sort of physical buttons somewhere. We haven’t lost that saving grace yet.
Yeah, but tracing my hands around the edges of the tv in the dark trying to find that power button just got my hand dusty, so I also had to go wash up
No TV but the more pernicious thing now is anything connected to the internet. Feels like “no TV in the bedroom” should be updated to “no screens in the bedroom” since a lot of folks end up doom scrolling instead of going to bed.
No TV in the bedroom. Bedroom is for other activities.
Like sitting on your phone or crying!
I live by myself in a 1br. I have 1 tv.
Hell yeah dude, because the bed is comfy. Favorite place to watch shows or game
No. No TVs in living room or bedroom. I have a separate gaming room for that. I hate TVs as center pieces unless its a gaming crt

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.

so what you’re saying is that you live in a one room shack?

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…

Embarrassed to let it hear you wanking?