Advice on size of TV

yangptangkipperbang

Idiophreak wrote: »

Doesn't your HD chair get in the way when you're sat in your SD chair?

TV's on a pivot :D

booter

Coveredinbees!!!! wrote: »

this should just about do it http://www.costco.co.uk/view/product/uk_catalog/cos_1,cos_1.1,cos_1.1.1/142976

Thanks for that - he'll want to start saving the pennies for this as the next upgrade :cool: and I'll have to sit 3 houses away to watch it

Well I'm afraid it's all a bit of a moot point now - he's returned home this evening with a new 40" :cool:. Apparently the external dimensions of the 37" he looked at were the same as the 40" (he tells me the frame was bigger) so he plumped for the 40". It's now sitting in the corner of the living room, to one side of the chimney breast (I'm hoping that this is reducing the visual impact - cause at the mo, to me it's very "in your face" and I'm feeling a little nauseous!!)

Tbh, I think he'd already made the decision, and obviously my powers of persuasion are severely lacking :cool: And I'm saying nothing about the size being compensatory :rotfl:

Anyway, thank you all so much for your input. I really appreciate it! It's nice to know someone listens! :cool::rotfl:

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As someone with a 55" Sony and a 46" Panasonic (in different rooms, of course), I can tell you that the they are neither overwhelming nor "chavvy":p

Home cinemas rule.

Avoriaz

getmore4less wrote: »

..the move to a wall mounted TV may actualy free up space in the room if you think beyond "the a big tv won't look right"...

I dislike wall mounted TVs.

The centre of a TV should be at about the level of your eyes or slightly below when viewing. Wall mounted TVs are usually higher than that and viewers can get neck strain because they are looking upwards to view it.

Try staring at a picture or mirror or just a space well above normal TV height for a while and see how it feels. Now imagine two or three hours or more of that.

Wall mounting, unless on a moveable bracket, also mean you cannot easily turn the TV to different angles. Our TV (42inch) has a normal pivot stand and is on a stand in the centre of one long wall of a rectangular room. I prefer that to the more usual corner location.

There is a 3 seater sofa opposite it and a 2 seater sofa along one shorter wall.

I adjust the angle of the TV depending on which sofa I am using or even on which side of the 3 seater sofa I am on.


PS: A TV cannot be too big. My wife disagrees which is why we only have a 42 inch model.

kwikbreaks

Avoriaz wrote: »

The centre of a TV should be at about the level of your eyes or slightly below when viewing. Wall mounted TVs are usually higher than that and viewers can get neck strain because they are looking upwards to view it.

This is another good reason why recliner sofas were invented.

Splott

kwikbreaks wrote: »

In my experience when you first get a big screen TV it seems huge.

This. Our 42" TV which seemed massive when we first got it looks "small" now. Even my friends 50" one doesn't look as impressive as it used to when I go round.

Mojisola

booter wrote: »

It's now sitting in the corner of the living room, to one side of the chimney breast (I'm hoping that this is reducing the visual impact - cause at the mo, to me it's very "in your face" and I'm feeling a little nauseous!!)

I've got to go against the trend. We brought a big TV home and it was awful in the room. Luckily, we were able to change it and get a smaller one.

Idiophreak

Mojisola wrote: »

I've got to go against the trend. We brought a big TV home and it was awful in the room. Luckily, we were able to change it and get a smaller one.

How long did you give it, out of interest?

Both the OH's parents and my own got TVs, decided they were too big, took them back (within a day or two) and have now spend years wishing they had a bigger one.

All larger TVs look a bit in-your-face when you've just put it in and are focussing on it. As kwikbreaks said, you soon get used to it...

Mojisola

Idiophreak wrote: »

How long did you give it, out of interest?

Both the OH's parents and my own got TVs, decided they were too big, took them back (within a day or two) and have now spend years wishing they had a bigger one.

All larger TVs look a bit in-your-face when you've just put it in and are focussing on it. As kwikbreaks said, you soon get used to it...

Only a couple of days but I don't think we would have got used to it. There's a lovely focal point of a fire in the room but all our eyes just kept getting dragged back to the big black box of a TV.

We've never felt we wanted a larger one than what we settled on but we're not film watchers - perhaps that makes a difference?

home_alone

It is a well known fact that TVs shrink an inch every week something to do with the signal, in france they shrink 25.4mm.