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.
We have no tv. None.
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
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.
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.
I think the better question and the one that would get more yes or no answers is do you have any screens in your bedroom? Not necessarily televisions.
I think significantly more people watch their phones in bed than they do large TVs.
Have 5 TVs throughout the house, has grown so much over the years. Most families here have 3 to 4 TVs
Where is “here”?
I had a TV in the bedroom, but removing it was one of the best choices I made. I liked the idea of creating TV-free spaces so much that I moved the TV out of the living room too. The living room is a social space, the TV room is a dedicated room to watch the TV. There is no context where “the TV is just on”.
I have a TV in both my living room and my room. I haven’t used either in months, but I sometimes use it. My roommate uses the living room one a few times a month but uses the one in her room a lot.
My entertainment choices vary and currently it’s covered by my tablet and pc, but I’ll use the TV again when I want to play on switch or steamdeck(some games I prefer the deck).
IMO the tablet is just a physically closer portable TV…
My husband and I don’t have a TV in our bedroom. We’ll go to bed at different times, and a TV going is just too much light and noise. If one of us wants to fall asleep to a TV show, there’s a very comfortable couch in the living room.
I think it might be different if we had kids. In that case, having a TV in the bedroom can be useful, in case you want to watch something kids aren’t old enough for yet. But it’s just the two of us, so we keep a TV out of the bedroom. The bedroom is for sleeping and other activities.
If my Do-It-All-Room counts:

(Greetings from my breakfast table lol.)Assuming I had an apartment with 2-3 rooms (meaning a hobby and/or living room + bedroom) I would probably only put one in the bedroom as a spare TV.
But I would not buy a new one just to watch more screens.No, I don’t have a TV in my bedroom.
Why does me having a living room have any bearing on that?
If you’re in a studio apartment, you don’t really have a separate room for sleeping, so you likely have a tv visible from bed. If you move up to a 1 or 2 bed apartment, now you have a a living room, and a tv visible from bed is a choice. Guessing OP recently upgraded their living situation and is seeing how others do it.
Some people live in Studio Apartments or in Bedsits, where it’s either having a TV in the bedroom-kitchen-living room or having no TV, no middle option.
Hence why OP stated that
I still don’t really get it. I don’t have a TV at all, so it doesn’t matter how many other rooms I have.
I took a protip from that CGP Grey video “Spaceship You” and so my bedroom is only used for 3 things;
- sex
- sleep
- naps
My apartment has two rooms. One is a storage room, the other is the living room/bedroom. TV (a computer monitor hooked up to a PlayStation 4 for YouTube) is right in front of the pile of blankets and pillows where I sleep, and is on 24/7.
Always. I watch something before I go to sleep. It’s a routine. Whether it was a free TV or a nice LED tv, I always had something in my room.
We just moved into a townhouse and bought a new, bigger tv, so at least for now the old tv is in the bedroom.
I’m normally against TVs on the bedroom but I’m not minding this so far - but if my fiance depression-nests in the bedroom I’ll sell the tv.






