How big (or small) is your main TV
Discussion
Sheepshanks said:
jsf said:
otherman said:
So back in the days of CRT TVs, most people had screens around the 20" mark. I always reckoned if you're going to watch TV, admit it and get the biggest one you can. I think the biggest CRT I found was 28" and it was a beast. Most people thought I was mad, "why do you need a TV that big" " I hope you've got a really big room to put it in". These days I have 43" and I'm quite happy, while all the people who used to have 14" portables as their main TV now have a video wall half the size of their house. Don't quite get it.
Big CRT was huge money at the time and with the interlacing rate wasn't a fabulous idea for picture quality.Then got a 37" Panny plasma which was also brilliant. That died last year.
Current is 49" Sony LCD. Our living room is 19' x 15' and it's not far off corner to corner from TV to where we sit but it's taken me a year to get used to the size of it.
One thing I don't like is the sound seems to come from somewhere other than the lips of person speaking. Bought a Sonos Beam, which is better but it still bugs me. I can only imagine that'd be worse on a massive TV.
In 2012 we switched to a 55" Panasonic plasma (55VT50) so pretty much top for picture quality. When it was delivered the screen looked huge, but after a couple of weeks, we were thinking that maybe we should have spent the extra for the 65" version. The picture quality for films (including 3D) was brilliant. We're still very happy with the picture quality and it's still working fine just over 8 years later, although it now mainly gets used just for general TV watching. When it does eventually get replaced, it'll most likely be with an OLED.
2 years ago we went for our first projector (Benq W1210ST). The electric screen drops down just in front of the TV and the image is the equivalent of a 110" screen. This now is the default option for films (including 3D) and most sports. Again, very happy with the picture quality, and it has a fast response time so also works very well for games.
In all the above cases, the sound has been the same 5.1 surround system comprising a (now 20 year old) Yamaha DSP800 processor driving Mission centre and 2 x Mission rear satellite speakers, with line-level output into a stereo hifi amp driving front left and right speakers (Spendor S6e), and the .1 channel output to an active sub (REL Strata3).
Finally, viewing distance in all the above has been approx 3 metres, which many may consider to be very close (especially for the projector), but we both get on fine with it. We do tend to sit in the middle or slightly closer to the screen when going to the cinema (those were the days)!
ETA - the CRT was SD, the Plasma and projector are both 1080p which works fine and even at 3 metres viewing distance for the 110" projector screen, you cannot discern individual pixels - need to be 2 metres or closer to do so.
Edited by C n C on Monday 8th February 19:16
[quote=BishBosh]100” in the lounge. View it everyday, behind the screen is my 75” 4K Sony for when it’s too light in the daytime. When the Sony is on it just looks tiny now. 
Lounge is 5m x 4m
How do you watch it hen your sofa appears to be 90 deg to the screen.
Where is the surround sound?
Lounge is 5m x 4m
How do you watch it hen your sofa appears to be 90 deg to the screen.
Where is the surround sound?
Nickgnome]ishBosh said:
100” in the lounge. View it everyday, behind the screen is my 75” 4K Sony for when it’s too light in the daytime. When the Sony is on it just looks tiny now.
Lounge is 5m x 4m
How do you watch it hen your sofa appears to be 90 deg to the screen.
Where is the surround sound?
Seriously?! Where do you think the photo is taken from? Lounge is 5m x 4m
How do you watch it hen your sofa appears to be 90 deg to the screen.
Where is the surround sound?
I can also see the front three speakers.
Digger said:
Seriously?! Where do you think the photo is taken from?
I can also see the front three speakers.
I can also see the front three speakers.
We have a patio door to the right which has a nice view out hence the sofa to the left. This lets a lot of light in which makes the projector image washed out and is why I’ve kept the Sony.
Also have two rear speakers behind as well as two ceiling speakers. The sky Q / amp is all remote in separate room controlled by a harmony remote.
Mrs bishbosh is very understanding. Secretly I think she likes the films too.
Anyway. Enough of that, go big OP....
75 inch in the lounge which is about right as my sofa is 19' from it, could perhaps go a bit bigger but they are insane prices.
What was a huge mistake was the idea of having a 55" on the wall about 2' from the end of the bed, my evening ritual now consists of suntan lotion and sunglasses before I retire.
What was a huge mistake was the idea of having a 55" on the wall about 2' from the end of the bed, my evening ritual now consists of suntan lotion and sunglasses before I retire.
Not had a television for over 10 years now. Once we got the projector we found we just weren’t using the TV. We don’t watch casual television and rarely during the day anyway so a projector fitted in with our lifestyle perfectly.
86” fixed screen. Having it white when off (rather than shiny black) made all the difference to us.
86” fixed screen. Having it white when off (rather than shiny black) made all the difference to us.
page3 said:
Not had a television for over 10 years now. Once we got the projector we found we just weren’t using the TV. We don’t watch casual television and rarely during the day anyway so a projector fitted in with our lifestyle perfectly.
86” fixed screen. Having it white when off (rather than shiny black) made all the difference to us.
That's a good move, and I should have done the same. I've got a 100" motorised projector screen that rolls down in front of a 65" TV.86” fixed screen. Having it white when off (rather than shiny black) made all the difference to us.
The TV is a recent LG OLED so the picture is a lot better than the projector can muster, and it can be used in all lighting conditions, but we only ever use the projector. We don't really watch day-to-day TV programmes, so it is mainly movies and sport which lend themselves to the bigger screen anyway.
The TV only gets used occasionally for gaming where I'm happy to sit a bit closer to the screen to gain the better picture quality and retain most of the immersion of the bigger screen.
Sitting room has a 65” curved Samsung LED.
It was top prize in a raffle at a charity dinner. Most expensive thing I have ever won (new it was £4000), though it did take 12 months of chasing (and escalation to the Dixons group commercial director) for it finally to be delivered.
We’re quite happy with the size, though once we have had a loft conversion done and move a couple of bedrooms upstairs (bungalow), the plan is that one of the freed up downstairs rooms will become a music/movies room. So we might move it in there (along with a projector) and then downsize to a 55 in the sitting room for general watching.
It was top prize in a raffle at a charity dinner. Most expensive thing I have ever won (new it was £4000), though it did take 12 months of chasing (and escalation to the Dixons group commercial director) for it finally to be delivered.
We’re quite happy with the size, though once we have had a loft conversion done and move a couple of bedrooms upstairs (bungalow), the plan is that one of the freed up downstairs rooms will become a music/movies room. So we might move it in there (along with a projector) and then downsize to a 55 in the sitting room for general watching.
BishBosh said:
We have a patio door to the right which has a nice view out hence the sofa to the left. This lets a lot of light in which makes the projector image washed out and is why I’ve kept the Sony.
Also have two rear speakers behind as well as two ceiling speakers. The sky Q / amp is all remote in separate room controlled by a harmony remote.
Mrs bishbosh is very understanding. Secretly I think she likes the films too.
Anyway. Enough of that, go big OP....
Surely you're single with a setup like that?
(Fair play. I only just "squeezed" in a 55" OLED in a room 6m x 5m or so
Though the photos on here now have me thinking that I could move it round a bit to make some space )Murph7355 said:
"We"?
Surely you're single with a setup like that?
(Fair play. I only just "squeezed" in a 55" OLED in a room 6m x 5m or so Though the photos on here now have me thinking that I could move it round a bit to make some space )
Lol...happily not single.Surely you're single with a setup like that?
(Fair play. I only just "squeezed" in a 55" OLED in a room 6m x 5m or so
Though the photos on here now have me thinking that I could move it round a bit to make some space )55” OLED must look fabulous when standing close to it....
mercedeslimos said:
49" LED in the living room, 50" plasma on the bedroom wall. Would have gone bigger, but 99% of the TVs out there now are designed to be wall-mounted (really didn't want to risk it with a red hot stove 18" below it) and have feet at both ends instead of a centre stand. The TV sits on a dresser in the alcove on one side of the chimney breast, and I've 5mm on each side of the feet so any bigger and it would need to find a new home, and possibly a more pronounced slant angle to be actually able to see it. Also, the joys of a 150-year old farmhouse with walls three feet thick making the rooms funny shapes and sizes! The plasma upstairs is mainly just for playing Xbox etc, not disturbing other people. Haven't watched TV on it ever.
Just about every TV sold has VESA mounting points on the back so you can ditch the feet at the ends & use a table mount stand like one of these:https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=tv+stand+for+55+inch+...
I always buy cheap vesa table top stands as I hate the stands TVs come with.
Usually big gaps at the bottom so you see cables etc.
Or they are just the wrong height, why do I want the TV to be 80mm or so above the table it is sat on?
The gaps always seem too high for no soundbar and too low for a soundbar.
This is a Sony XF9005....
Compared to the bizarre looking stand it comes with...
Usually big gaps at the bottom so you see cables etc.
Or they are just the wrong height, why do I want the TV to be 80mm or so above the table it is sat on?
The gaps always seem too high for no soundbar and too low for a soundbar.
This is a Sony XF9005....
Compared to the bizarre looking stand it comes with...
Mr Pointy said:
Just about every TV sold has VESA mounting points on the back so you can ditch the feet at the ends & use a table mount stand like one of these:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=tv+stand+for+55+inch+...
Never come across one of those before. Great idea, as the wall mount goes onto the same bolts I suppose. When the current unit goes bang I think they will be on the list!https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=tv+stand+for+55+inch+...
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