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How many widescreen TVs can a house have before the owners are considered rich?

How many TVs?

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I'll have to be pretty well off before I think about buying a HD tv.

So 1.
 
I would start at three, assuming the person is the average American in the sense that they like television.
 
A college kid could afford a big widescreen HD TV if he so chose. They aren't that expensive anymore.
 
Using TVs as a measure of someone's wealth is pretty silly, IMO. It's like using the number of credit cards owned as a measure of someone's financial success.

I could probably buy 10 or more huge TVs tomorrow. Would that make me rich? No... it'd make me stupid.
 
I just bought a HD Widescreen TV (though 'only' 42'')

am I rich now? :please:
 
Globally?

1 tv of any sort = fantastically rich. (If you don't run it off a car battery, your royality)

A portable radio makes you "very well off".

A roof that doesn't leak makes you upper-middle class.
 
I have a 36 inch box. TOSHIBA! And I never watch it. The last time I watched it might be 6 months ago....so why do I need a tv exactly?
 
One. Anyone with the money to buy luxuries isn't poor.
 
Is this a question for Americans or the whole world? Because if it's global, then the vote is of course '0' as being wealthy in world terms starts way before being able to afford such a TV.
 
It's not the amount of widescreen TVs that's important, but placement.

If you have one on the toilet, you're rich.
 
Widescreen tellies are among the distractions which separate radioactive monkeys from their money thus preventing them from becoming rich.
 
Umm. There's alot of "rich" households that don't have alot of TVs.

We only have 1 24inch flatscreen lcd...It cost like 500 bucks from Costco. One hardly has to be rich to afford such a TV right now
 
You can't base it off of TV's, the only person I know and think of as rich has two, my familyhas 1-2 depending on if you count a wall projector and most people I know have at least one...
I think defining it based on cars is better:
If a family has more than one high end car (BMW, Mercedes, any good sportscar etc.), that aren't more than a few years old or has more cars than famiy members who can legally drive and all of these cars aren't more than several yers old (even if they aren't high end). Then that family can be considered quite well off.
 
nivi said:
Not only they are not expensive enough, they aren't important enough. I don't know about you (as in all of you), but I'm perfectly happy with my fairly crappy Toshiba TV, and a big widescreen might make me happier, for a week or so while I'm still excited about it, but after that I will go right back to my current level of happy.
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What he said. Although I'm not sure that I'd be notably happier for it at all.

TVs might be a good measure of whether a family is composed of braindead obedient American consumers, though.
 
How many BMWs do you need to be considered rich.......?

Its a pretty specific measure of richness.
 
Bill3000 said:
I'm trying to come up with a, uh, "reasonable" rule of thumb for richness in teh suburbs or something. I think this is a good measure.

Assume that a wide screen TV is like 45 inches or higher or something. How many can you have before they are considered "rich" by your standards? Assume the TV is Plasma/LCD.
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Pah! You're not rich until you're at least on your second yacht.
 
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