We only have a single TV. She likes to watch those crappy reality shows and that can sometimes cut into my 360 time; but on the bright side, it forces me to read more.

I have an ace up my sleeve though, I get final say on TV use since we would have two if she didn't give my old TV to her sister.

We have more than one T.V., but after work we both hang out upstairs with the kids and the one T.V. in the living room. My wife watches the same shows as yours, and we put on kids stuff at times, too. When bedtime rolls around for the kids, I will usually retreat to my "den" downstairs, and she will wind down upstairs. I don't think we would do very well if we only had one T.V. I can only watch so much of the home reno shows, and she can't stand watching some of the games I play.

We have two PCs. I'm not a PC gamer, though. So one is an underpowered laptop and the other is a fileserver/web/email server also running CentOS.

So the only gaming I can do on a PC really is cards or Rollercoaster Tycoon. Either way, my trysts with the PSP, DS, etc. have enlightened me to the fact that I don't really want to play those. I want to play my 360, notably with my friends online.

My wife and I share one nice television. Like CC, my wife enjoys those silly reality shows and I enjoy my "silly" 360. We meet in the middle 'cause we both like PBS. We don't even have cable, just a pair of old fashioned rabbit-ears (though they pick up HD signals). A number of years ago my wife was in grad school and one of her classes had a "last man standing" contest to see who could last the longest w/o watching tv. She was enthusiastic about winning and said the only way she could do it would be to disrupt our cable service. Not caring about tv myself, I agreed. She won the contest (and a couple hundred bucks) and when it was all said and done, we didn't even want to hook the cable back up.

Aaaaanyway, though we have to share a single tv we both agreed it would be for the best. Otherwise I'd likely be holed up in one room playing games while she was in another watching bad tv shows. While we have a single tv, we ironically have two laptops. So we can sit in the same space regardless of how the tv is being used, with one (or both) of us goofing off on their laptop. I think it keeps us connected in a way while we each get to do something we enjoy, even if it doesn't mean 360 or reality tv.

I game on PSP too, so that helps get me through an obnoxious session of The Biggest Loser or Dancing With The Stars.

I guess it's important to ask yourself how disconnected you'd be if you both spent the bulk of your evening absorbed in your own isolated activity. I'm not suggesting you each need to be joined at the hip 24/7, but as my wife and I both work full time like most, I do think it's important to share some time together in the evenings, even if it means sitting in the same space goofing off with our own activity and shooting conversation back and forth.

I think if I had my own gaming tv that I'd never see my wife at all!

I'm pretty much PC only when it comes to gaming these days, but back when I was still a console gamer I did have a seperate TV for that purpose.

For all the reasons mentioned on this thread and several others, your marriage would be better off with no TVs than with only one. Two is the minimum. But is it really worth all this navel gazing? Even if you decide against connecting your 360 to a PC monitor, you could still find a decent TV for cheap on craig's list or ebay.

Life's too short, etc.

3 TVs in this household, two of which are HDTVs, but funnily enough, the second HDTV is not used for TV at all - it's a computer monitor and secondary console TV. We've got the big HDTV in the living room and an older SDTV in the bedroom.

You can get an old SDTV off Craigslist or a yard sale or something for absolutely nothing, there's no reason to be a one-TV household if that's not what you want. And crap reality shows certainly don't need HDTVs.

My wife likes curling up in bed to watch shows, and I like sitting on the couch with my big TV and 5.1 surround sound, so when we're not watching things together, it works out.

2 TV's in the house, but only 1 is an HDTV. My wife and I have separate rooms in the house that we use as our offices/PC rooms. The non-HDTV is in my office with my old Non-HD consoles hooked up to it. I spend way more time PC gaming than playing my consoles. We watch TV together on the HDTV in the living room. My wife is a big Community Theater person at the local Opera House, so she spends a lot of time performing in Shows and attending rehearsals, so I have plenty of free time to game on the 360 in the living room if I feel like it. It works out pretty good. If we had only 1 TV and 1 PC I would probably shrivel up and die from entertainment starvation. I can't live without constant access to the internet and I can't share a computer .

Single TV house here as well.

Neither does mine. My wife likes to stick to premium channel series (Big Love, Dexter, Rome, L Word, etc), and watches a lot of Food Network and detective shows (some fictional like CSI:SVU, but more often than not stuff like Forensic Files). There's a good number of shows we both like (Meercat Manor, House M.D., Dexter, the non-fictional crime/forensic shows, and a few others), so we normally find something we both like to watch.

I have a gamecube, but it's been packed away in a suitcase for over a year now, so we don't exactly have any problems sharing the TV. If she wants to watch something I don't want to, I can either suffer her wrath by hopping on my PC (I'm more of a PC gamer, but she hates when I get on there when she's home), or I sit beside her and play my DS. The latter option has been happening much more frequently lately, though my thumbs are beginning to protest.

We have one TV for the living room, one for the home office that we work out of. Luckily for me, my wife actually enjoys watching me play games while she surfs the web from her laptop in the living room. If you can get your girl addicted to the Internet, finding time to game won't be a problem.

We have one TV. It definitely pushes my gaming towards PC instead of console.

We've got a total of 3 TV's, but only one is hooked up to cable. The gaming and TV watching happens on the same unit, but it's never really been an issue. I typically don't play games until my youngest is too bed anyway (since I don't think Bioshock is all that good for a 4 year old), so I'll, on average, get in half an hour of 'me' game time a night before my wife and I decided to watch something on the PVR. That's one of the things I love about that PVR: we typically never watch 'live' TV, only stuff we've captured on the device. It really cuts down on the 'get off the TV at exactly this time' mentality. Barring that, we typically download our TV shows anyway.

We've got two other TVs: one in our 17 year old's room, and the other upstairs where our 4 year old can watch some DVDs while we make supper and stuff, but these aren't hooked up to cable or any such type of broadcast source.

Luckily, no. Both my wife and I have similar tastes and they include no reality TV or sitcoms. Battlestar, Heroes, Journeyman, House, Ghost Hunters are generally the order of the day. Mind you, she loves 'What Not to Wear', and I've actually learned to enjoy that one.

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1 TV here; I have my 360 hooked up to a 22" widescreen LCD monitor in the next room. If you're not playing multiplayer games, a nice widescreen monitor 3 ft from your face is as least as good as 40" LCD TV across the room, and a heck of a lot cheaper.

My house has onl one TV, well really i have a big plasma that is only hooked up to our DVD player. My wife and I both hate TV! We have netflixs so we only really watch dvds about 3-4 times a week most of the time we are reading or i am online playing with my PC. I have also from time to time hooked up my box to the TV and played online, but its kinda wierd sitting so far away from the screen

But i did enjoy playing Supcom on my TV with my comp monitor as the minimap!