How big (or small) is your main TV

[49Flipper]

55” in the lounge, sitting 13’ away, got an 85” in the cinema room and sitting about 12’ away.

Edited by 49Flipper on Sunday 28th February 23:41

[parabolica]

A pretty janky set up using an ancient home cinema system and no screen, just a white wall. But works well, esp when you’ve got all the lights off.

[Superleg48]

We have B&O:

Beovision Avant 75” 4K TV in the Lounge



And a B&O Beovision Horizon 55” in the Bar.

Hideously expensive, especially the Avant and all the other B&O peripherals everywhere; speakers, subs, etc etc etc and would never do it again. Was a once in a lifetime splurge, but always admired the stuff. Used to sell it years and years ago when TVs still had tubes.

[Ahonen]

dvshannow said:

Said in jest no doubt but hearing a room with a plasma makes as little sense as saying incandescent bulbs generate heat so no point in spending g money on low energy upgrades

Obviously said in jest but it probably kicks out more heat than a night storage heater. Mind you, being semi-serious, spending a grand on a new telly just to save a few quid a year on the electricity bill seems like a false economy to me. I could probably save more electricity by a slight reduction in my tea consumption, which is considerable.

[Superleg48]

anonymous said:

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It is and probably on balance not really worth the premium. It does look visually stunning though and very well put together. Here is a daytime pic that also shows 2 of the 4 Beolab 18 speakers and the Beolab 19 Sub. The TV weighs about 92Kgs and took 4 people to mount it to the wall bracket, that cost £1100! It’s insane.

[gizlaroc]

That Avant would give you a much better image if it was at eye level. The B&O LCDs give some of the best images you will ever get from an LCD, but they need to be viewed straight on, move left or right, up or down and the black levels become washed out and the image collapses.

If it were me I would whack it in the corner on a low floor stand, use the TV speakers as mains, with a sub and rears and really see what it is capable of.

[Ahonen]

Superleg48 said:

It is and probably on balance not really worth the premium. It does look visually stunning though and very well put together. Here is a daytime pic that also shows 2 of the 4 Beolab 18 speakers and the Beolab 19 Sub. The TV weighs about 92Kgs and took 4 people to mount it to the wall bracket, that cost £1100! It’s insane.

92kg TV?! Wow.

The wall bracket cost £1100?! Double wow. Actually that's an even bigger wow.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

55 in the living room and 49 in the bedroom

[paralla]

Superleg48 said:

We have B&O:

Beovision Avant 75” 4K TV in the Lounge



And a B&O Beovision Horizon 55” in the Bar.

Hideously expensive, especially the Avant and all the other B&O peripherals everywhere; speakers, subs, etc etc etc and would never do it again. Was a once in a lifetime splurge, but always admired the stuff. Used to sell it years and years ago when TVs still had tubes.

It does seem a shame to mount such a nice TV so high.

When we installed a new fire and TV above it we worked really hard to keep the TV as low as it could be. The fire is as close to the floor as its allowed to be by building regs, it's a landscape rather than portrait shaped fire, the non combustible fire surround is as small as its allowed to be and the TV is as close to the top of the fire as I was game to put it. There is a pull out 4mm aluminium plate (since powder coated black) above the fire surround that acts as a heat shield to deflect the air and keep the TV cool which works amazingly well. The thin LCR speakers are mounted on the back of cut-outs in the panelling so that the tweeters of the L+R speakers are at the centre of the screen and the centre speaker mounted above is angled down.

I'm very jealous of your Beolab 18's and Beolab 19. We auditioned them and got a quote to upgrade our whole house Sonos system to whole house B&O but decided such a big discretionary purchase should be from a bonus, unexpected share dividend or something like that. I totally get how indulgent it is.

[Superleg48]

Ahonen said:

92kg TV?! Wow.

The wall bracket cost £1100?! Double wow. Actually that's an even bigger wow.

You just don’t want to know what the actual TV cost.....which is why I would never do it again. A real extravagance....or moment of utter stupidity. In fact when I stop to think how much we spent on all the B&O gear as a whole, I break out into a sweat and wonder what on Earth came over me!

Oh well, done now and you’re dead a long time.

[Superleg48]

paralla said:

It does seem a shame to mount such a nice TV so high.

When we installed a new fire and TV above it we worked really hard to keep the TV as low as it could be. The fire is as close to the floor as its allowed to be by building regs, it's a landscape rather than portrait shaped fire, the non combustible fire surround is as small as its allowed to be and the TV is as close to the top of the fire as I was game to put it. There is a pull out 4mm aluminium plate (since powder coated black) above the fire surround that acts as a heat shield to deflect the air and keep the TV cool which works amazingly well. The thin LCR speakers are mounted on the back of cut-outs in the panelling so that the tweeters of the L+R speakers are at the centre of the screen and the centre speaker mounted above is angled down.

I'm very jealous of your Beolab 18's and Beolab 19. We auditioned them and got a quote to upgrade our whole house Sonos system to whole house B&O but decided such a big discretionary purchase should be from a bonus, unexpected share dividend or something like that. I totally get how indulgent it is.

The photo does make it look quite high, but in reality it is not excessively so. Given that it is also a 75” behemoth and we sit about 15 feet from it, the viewing angle is reasonably shallow. I couldn’t position it any lower, as the TV speakers come down from the bottom of the screen when you turn it on and retract again when you switch it off. Had to work with the limitations of the room.

Despite all that, the picture quality is truly epic as far as I am concerned and compared to every other TV in the house, including the B&O Horizon in the bar.

Sometimes the perfect set up doesn’t fit around room design and general living.

[HairyMaclary]

37" Sony from 2007.

Been toying with upgrading to 55" for awhile but seems silly to replace a perfectly OK telly. Maybe that makes me council?

Btw this thread is full of proper PH cringe so thanks for the smiles

[gizlaroc]

HairyMaclary said:

37" Sony from 2007.

Been toying with upgrading to 55" for awhile but seems silly to replace a perfectly OK telly. Maybe that makes me council?

Btw this thread is full of proper PH cringe so thanks for the smiles

It might be OK, but I think you will be blown away by the quality of an OLED in comparison.

2007 LCD, even the very best, were never great.

[VEX]

47" LG 1080p for day-time / general viewing

120" 4k projector for events and movie viewing.

All based in the same room and viewable from the same corner sofa.

[dvshannow]

parabolica said:

A pretty janky set up using an ancient home cinema system and no screen, just a white wall. But works well, esp when you’ve got all the lights off.

But where does the sound come from?

[g3org3y]

37 inch (LCD Toshiba) in living room. Was the 'fancy' TV I bought when I qualified as a doctor in 2008. Works fine.

HairyMaclary said:

37" Sony from 2007.

Been toying with upgrading to 55" for awhile but seems silly to replace a perfectly OK telly. Maybe that makes me council?

Btw this thread is full of proper PH cringe so thanks for the smiles

No, that's anti-council.

Edited by g3org3y on Monday 5th April 06:24

[HairyMaclary]

gizlaroc said:

HairyMaclary said:

37" Sony from 2007.

Been toying with upgrading to 55" for awhile but seems silly to replace a perfectly OK telly. Maybe that makes me council?

Btw this thread is full of proper PH cringe so thanks for the smiles

It might be OK, but I think you will be blown away by the quality of an OLED in comparison.

2007 LCD, even the very best, were never great.

g3org3y said:

37 inch (LCD Toshiba) in living room. Was the 'fancy' TV I bought when I qualified as a doctor in 2008. Works fine.

HairyMaclary said:

37" Sony from 2007.

Been toying with upgrading to 55" for awhile but seems silly to replace a perfectly OK telly. Maybe that makes me council?

Btw this thread is full of proper PH cringe so thanks for the smiles

No, that's anti-council.

Edited by g3org3y on Monday 5th April 06:24

Thanks both. This thread seems to have sown the seed... I'm waiting for a 55" Samsung to turn up later today

Suggested to the wife why don't we upgrade the telly and she said she'd been waiting for years for me to suggest that. So after a quick conversation about the size I have a new one.

She doesn't know I ordered the 55 rather than the 50 we spoke about. Will dispose of the box sharpish and seek forgiveness if needed

[RSTurboPaul]

HairyMaclary said:

She doesn't know I ordered the 55 rather than the 50 we spoke about. Will dispose of the box sharpish and seek forgiveness if needed

Just tell her that it won't seem so big once she's got used to it

[snowandrocks]

32" Samsung LCD from 2013 ish. Only TV in the house and works perfectly fine.

Each to their own but some of the TVs previously posted look ridiculous!

[LuS1fer]

I used to have a 40" and it was absolutely fine but the "blacks" on screen were pretty poor so when I decided on an OLED TV, it was 55 or 65.

I ummed and shared but went for the 65 which you very quickly get used to.

In contrast, I have a Samsung 32" in the bedroom but only because it's inside the sliding door wardrobe and the width of the door dictates the size.

Being smaller, the picture quality is fine and I can watch programmes on either, despite the 32" being a lot further away.