My Cart - Recently conducted reports have shown that families are spending more time watching television. However, it seems that an increasing amount of these viewing hours are happening in separate rooms as more and more households are investing in additional TVs.
It’s very common for families to own more than one TV these days and it is in fact thought that one in six British households actually own five or more TV sets and two thirds own three. This is hardly surprising considering that the cost of new TVs has lowered drastically. For example, most high street electronics retailers will carry a wide range of cheap plasma TVs, LED, LCD and even 3D sets.
Most families that own several TVs tend to have one large high end set in their living room or main family room and then several smaller TVs throughout the house in the kitchen or bedrooms. Naturally with TVs throughout many houses this means that families are often spending less time watching programs together.
Last year it was reported that the average Britain spends 3 hours and 45 minutes a day in front of the television. However, with an increasing number of families buying TVs for their childrens’ bedrooms and other rooms in the house its little wonder that a significant proportion of that viewing time is on an individual basis.
There have been some widely publicised speculations from various organisations in the past that allowing children to have their own TV in their bedroom is not necessarily conducive to well rounded upbringing. Nevertheless, with the price of flat screen TVs getting lower all the time parents seem quite happy to provide their children with a TV set for their bedroom as well as many other rooms in the house.
