Poll: Poll: Who watches TV in bed?

Do you have a TV in your bedroom and if so, how often do you watch it?

  • There's a TV in my bedroom and I watch it pretty much every night

    Votes: 106 28.6%

  • There's a TV in my bedroom and I sometimes watch it

    Votes: 98 26.4%

  • No, there's no TV in my bedroom

    Votes: 167 45.0%
  • Total voters
    371
I suspect it's a generational thing i.e. the older you are the less likely you are to have a TV in the bedroom. I was nearly ten before we even had a TV - 12" monochrome - 2 channels.:)
 
robfosters said:
Judging by your username, I’d imagine musics more your thing.​
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Yes, a high end Hi-Fi has always had prime position in my front/sitting room and I'll sit listening to music through most evenings.

I did watch TV as a kid, then I switched to radio and music TV channels in my mid to late teens (the original MTV2 was always on pretty much, with Radio in the evenings) then when I earned enough to buy a decent Hi-Fi pretty much all my spare cash went on music, and still does to this day mostly.

It's about the only thing that keeps me sane these days.
 
Faustus said:
I suspect it's a generational thing i.e. the older you are the less likely you are to have a TV in the bedroom. I was nearly ten before we even had a TV - 12" monochrome - 2 channels.:)
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I'm nearly 60 and always had a TV in the bedroom.
My Mum is 81 and has a TV in the bedroom.
My Dad (split up from my Mum) is 82 and has a TV in the bedroom.
I can also take you to many pensioners who I have helped to set up TVs in their living rooms, kitchens & bedrooms.
There's nothing like cuddling up to the person you love while watching Peaky Blinders or something.

It's probably a chavvy Stoke thing.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
I'm nearly 60 and always had a TV in the bedroom.
My Mum is 81 and has a TV in the bedroom.
My Dad (split up from my Mum) is 82 and has a TV in the bedroom.
I can also take you to many pensioners who I have helped to set up TVs in their living rooms, kitchens & bedrooms.
There's nothing like cuddling up to the person you love while watching Peaky Blinders or something.

It's probably a chavvy Stoke thing.
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Yes it may well be. You must have been rich having a telly back then. Funny thing is you tend to gravitate to what you had in your formative years. We only had the wireless and to this day I still love listening to the radio.
 
I was bought up quite old fashioned- the dining room was for eating in, all of us at meal times, kitchen was for cooking, Bedrooms were for sleeping in or doing homework/messing around/playing, front room or sitting room was for watching telly.

I guess you just carry on how you were bought up, only difference for me is swap the telly for a Hi-Fi RE: sitting room. PC lives in the spare bedroom with the mining rig ha!
 
Telecaster said:
I was bought up quite old fashioned- the dining room was for eating in, all of us at meal times, kitchen was for cooking, Bedrooms were for sleeping in or doing homework/messing around/playing, front room or sitting room was for watching telly.

I guess you just carry on how you were bought up, only difference for me is swap the telly for a Hi-Fi RE: sitting room. PC lives in the spare bedroom with the mining rig ha!
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I don't see it as old fashioned at all.
 
Faustus said:
I don't see it as old fashioned at all.
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Nowadays many of us eat in our living room, socialise in our kitchen and in our case, dry our washing in the dining room! Times have changed, viewing habits have too. For example, many people, myself included, never really watch scheduled telly any more, it’s all sky plussed and watched when convenient, which has probably led to an increase in bedroom tv viewing.
 
Moses said:
A dining room as a dining room is a bit of a waste, imo. Well, most of the time. Most of the time people carve out space in the kitchen as their dining space, and/or eat in the lounge... so then the dining room is rarely used for that purpose.

We're stupid with room usage. If I have spare bedrooms in the future which are rarely used, I'll have fold down beds so the rooms can serve other purposes rather than being unused the vast majority of the time.
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Yeah, I’d never have a ‘spare’ bedroom. Total waste. Hardly anyone has people stay regularly enough to warrant it. So many things you could do with it.
 
Faustus said:
I suspect it's a generational thing i.e. the older you are the less likely you are to have a TV in the bedroom. I was nearly ten before we even had a TV - 12" monochrome - 2 channels.:)
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I remember when I was 9 having a little 12 inch Ferguson in my room with the Commodore 64 and Atari 2600.

Those were the days.
 
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