More tvs than humans

[Dave (imported)]

>>The machines are taking over!

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July 22, 2009

THERE are now more TV sets than people in the US.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07222009/tv ... 180668.htm

How scary is that?

In 2009, there were nearly 115 million TV homes in the US, each averaging 2.86 TV sets, according to a new Nielsen study.

That computes to nearly 329 million TV sets -- more than the entire US population, estimated at 307 million by the US Census Bureau.

And the average number of TV sets-per-home has been growing steadily. It was up 18 percent over 2000 (2.43 sets-per-house) -- and up a whopping 43 percent over 1990 (when it was two TV sets-per-home).

So what gives?

"TV sets are, on an inflation-adjusted basis, becoming cheaper and cheaper [to buy]," says Bill Gorman, an analyst with tvbythenumbers- .com.

"If somebody looked at what the cost of an average TV was in the 1960s and looked at the inflation-adjusted cost of an average TV today, it's a quarter of the real cost.

"And household size keeps getting smaller and smaller," Gorman says. "So when your household size keeps going down, and the minimum level of TV sets is over two, that's going to have an effect."

Among other interesting facts in the study: 82 percent of US households have more than one set, 88 percent have a DVD player and 38 percent have digital cable.

[Riverwind (imported)]

2 TV sets, 2 cable boxes, 1 antenna. Not much to watch except PBS.

River

[Arab Nights (imported)]

One TV in the Great Room, one TV in the media room, one TV in each bedroom, one TV in each bathroom, two TVs in the home office, one TV in the kitchem and one TV in Daddy's workshop. Does anybody see an issue here? Along with the distributed audio and networked electronics, it all makes great sense.

The amount of programming is a different issue. +100 channels. Lets see. Five sports channels showing the same game. Five showing another game. etc. etc. What I was taught is that you can have 100 channels, but each person only cares about 3 or 5 channels. The problem is everybody's 3 or 5 channels are different than everybody else.

Personally I want to subscribe to a small private network in San Antonio called the KKK channel. Ohhh that high definition depilation. I cannot wait until it expands to the KKK East, KKK West, KKK North and KKK Texis channels. I know what A-1's favorite 3-5 channels will be. Who knows, maybe it will become the NASCAR of the future. Maybe even cheerleaders like the Texas-Oklahoma games at halftime. The mind boggles at the future.

[StefanIsMe (imported)]

One large widescreen tv in the living room; one small one as a monitor for my computer.

No cable, no sattelite... I get any TV I want to watch via the internet, and buying seasons of series of TV shows I think I'll like.

I got sick of regular TV about 5 years ago, couldn't sit down and sit through a full hour long show... and would end up turning it off during commercials and doing something else. Find the 'net far more entertaining because I can participate in some way.

Edit: When I first saw the title of this thread, I wondered how transvestites can possibly outnumber people. I tend to screw up and wrongly read things in to different initials. At work, almost daily I see the initials K.P, in our case referring to Klockner Pentaplast stock; I always wonder why they use something that also means Kiddy Porn. Also, TG; at work, it's Top Gutter, and I always giggle when I get to ask my boss if the TG that I have planned is going to be big enough .

[Arab Nights (imported)]

I forgot central vacuum.

I see by two posts that people are rattling off what they have. My post was not rattling off what I have. It was a comment on some of the upscale homes here. I live in a standard 3 b, 2 b house, 2 TV, 6 people and dogs home. We have more computers than TVs and the community is not gated. We do have satellite for the foreign language stuff.

A bit off topic and for whatever it is worth, but in my back-up job (low voltage stuff), I have gotten into homes at all levels of society. In all levels there are homes you feel real good in and would like to know the people more and at all levels there are homes that you cannot wait to leave because of the person/people.

[The Lurker (imported)]

One large flat screen...

[devi (imported)]

TV sucks! And then they want you to pay for cable or satellite? FORGET IT!!!

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

Alright, I confess. I have five TV's, four DTV converters, two dvd players, two vhs players and a Guitar Hero set-up. I am not happy with over the air digital TV and I refuse to pay the ridiculous price for cable. So there!! --FLO--

[curious_guy (imported)]

I got sick of regular TV about 5 years ago, couldn't sit down and sit through a full hour long show... and would end up turning it off during commercials and doing something else.

I also got sick of commercials. About ten or twelve years ago, I stopped watching ANYTHING live. I record everything on my VCR's and my Dish DVR. When I watch them later, I forward search over the commercials.

Has over-the-air TV in Canada gone digital the way it has in the US?

[Dave (imported)]

About five years back when digital TV and HD were first out, I had to buy a second TV. I was left with only one 27 inch picture tube TV. So I bought a flat screen with 1080p and now I can see the puck on hockey games, footprints in football games and the individual boards on Basketball.

I plan to buy myself a second flat screen at 1080p by Christmas.

If you can pick up the 27inch tube and carry it out of my house, you can have it. One TV, one person. That's the deal.