How many television sets do you have in your home?
As a child we had one television it was in the lounge room and we would gather as a family in the evening to watch it, now days most families/ homes have more than one in fact many families will have one in the lounge room and one in each bedroom and often one in the kitchen as well.
Can you remember when colour televisions came out, how long did it take your family to purchase a colour set? My parents were the first people in our street to get a colour telly, my dad also liked to get new things pretty soon after they came out.
We only had one telly up until 1980 when I bought my own telly but I didn’t have it in my bedroom I put it out in the kitchen and my parents have had a set in the kitchen ever since. They have never had a television in their bedroom, although my nephew Dawson has a set in his room.
Me and Tim had a telly in our bedroom for a while but not anymore I use to go the bedroom to watch telly when the girls where younger but now I only watch the lounge room telly and Tim has a set in his room/office which he watches all the time.
Everyone now and again I will see on different tv shows about families going without a tv and if that is what they want to do then that is great but me I like my tv, we don’t go out to the movies or anything and for me it is my main source of entertainment.
The look of a television has certainly changed over the years they use to be large and bulky and heavy with small screens and now they are large and lightweight with larger screens and of course they have gone from being black and white to colour. The first tv’s didn’t have remote controls we had to get off our bums to change the channel…………….lol
Jo-AnneRamplings 
H2 and I were married in 73. We were poor…didn’t get a color tv until our kids were teens. Funny thing is, they saw color in our old 12 inch black and white.
You know, I thought I saw colour in our black and white too! I have only 1 TV now and I hardly watch it at all!
I don’t remember much about the old black and white tv and there is no memory of seeing colour in it
This made me nostalgic – hehe!
I felt nostalgic when writing it……..
We only had one tv while I was growing up and did not purchase one till we were stateside again in 1969. It was B & W, eventually we got our color set around 1973. After I married we always had two sets, hubby likes sports, I like old movies, needless to say I always used the B & W – since most old movies are you guessed it B & W! Now it is ironic we have 3 (one now in my sewing room), and we seldom watch it. There is no good entertainment anymore. So now I have my old movies on DVD’s, and hubby watches sports on the weekends. So the “telly’s” have gotten better but not the shows! I guess now we have our computers for entertainment!
Yes there are a lot of rubbish shows on now days, I remember when my girls were little and we bought them each a tv for their bedroom some people thought we were nuts but I liked to be able let them watch something I thought was more appropriate for them while me and hubby watched something different in the lounge room………….
Really!!!!!!!!!!!!!