[...] TV Stats: More Sets Than People in Homes New stats from Nielsen show that the average U.S. home has more TVs in it than people. According to the research firm, in [...]

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How many homes have no sets? And is that number growing? It certainly is among our younger employees… they watch but online

[...] average American home now has 2.86 televisions and just 2.5 people, according to a new survey by Nielsen. The number of TVs jumped from 1.57 in 1975 to 2.43 in 2000 as the Internet gained popularity. The [...]

[...] average American home now has 2.86 televisions and just 2.5 people, according to a new survey by Nielsen. The number of TVs jumped from 1.57 in 1975 to 2.43 in 2000 as the Internet gained popularity. The [...]

[...] average American home now has 2.86 televisions and just 2.5 people, according to a new survey by Nielsen. The number of TVs jumped from 1.57 in 1975 to 2.43 in 2000 as the Internet gained popularity. The [...]

It is mildly interesting that we will double the number of TVs per household in about 30 years … 30 years is the new “generation” [as opposed to the older 25 years] because people just live longer and have kids later. But I digress.

The more interesting statistic would be to see the growth rate of monitors [TVs, computers, cell phones, picture frames, auto GPS] per household since 1975. It’s a hard figure to acquire. Videography Lab has been on it for a couple of years.

On the day of this authors birth, in January 1946, there were less than 40,000 monitors in non military use worldwide. Sixty three years later in 2009 there are well over 8,000,000,000 monitors on Earth and that number is growing exponentially as automotive and mobile monitors [aka handsets] hit there stride in “the Age of Videography” [Miller Freeeman publishers - 1996].

All these monitors are intended to convey information and to improve life. Why don’t we see life improving?

[...] average American home now has 2.86 televisions and just 2.5 people, according to a new survey by Nielsen. The number of TVs jumped from 1.57 in 1975 to 2.43 in 2000 as the Internet gained popularity. The [...]

[...] Television sets were at their saturation point well before HDTVs came along. In 2009 there were more TVs per household than people. By now it’s likely that you just don’t have room for a fourth or twelfth tube [...]

[...] Television sets were at their saturation point well before HDTVs came along. In 2009 there were more TVs per household than people. By now it’s likely that you just don’t have room for a fourth or twelfth tube [...]

[...] Television sets were at their saturation point well before HDTVs came along. In 2009 there were more TVs per household than people. By now it’s likely that you just don’t have room for a fourth or twelfth tube [...]

[...] Television sets were at their saturation point well before HDTVs came along. In 2009 there were more TVs per household than people. By now it’s likely that you just don’t have room for a fourth or twelfth tube [...]

It is quite suprising to me that more people are buying televisions. I was looking at a big flat panel HDTV that had an excellent price. As I was about to buy it I remembered that there really wasn't much worth watching anymore. The garbage that producers are cranking out these days is far from entertaining, it is pathetic. And the advertising is about to drive me nuts. No wonder insurance is so costly the insurance companies are making the advertisers rich. In fact the content of both cable and satelite providers is so pathetic I am going to cancel my membership today. If one pays attention to the content being provided for television it is quite clear that big media is working on our brains turning many peoples' into mush, and many into supporters of policies which go against their own best interests. With all the fantastic potential the tv had for enhancing the plight of humanity it has, sadly, been used to keep the public in the dark. I advise anyone who loves their children or life itself, to throw that tv out.