I took delivery of a washing machine today, and the delivery people were talking about how big the TVs are that they deliver. I bought a Samsung TV about 4 years ago and its a 55 inch model, and its perfect for me for the size of loungeroom I have.

Do you get used to large TVs and just want bigger? I can't see how it would be fun having most of the wall as a TV to try and focus on.

Am I missing something or do I just need to sit in my kitchen to watch TV?

No.....
But my Lounge room is 7x6.5 mts and my 50" tv seems small for that size Lounge room.

My TV is just a little bigger then Mr and Mrs Jones next door.
And my lounge room is 7.1 x 6.6

I have a projector and the screen is about 110 inch diagonal. We don't use it much but when we do it's great. To watch normal TV/utube to me a 55 inch TV is fine however I thought the same when we had a 42 inch TV. We also thought the same with our last CRT TV which I think was a 68cm TV.

So we get used to whatever we have. I doubt people back in the 1950s were whinging coz their TV was too small, only had one channel and was in black and white.

How many people wear glasses and watch a huge high def screen? Don't you have trouble noticing what's going on in the corners of the screen if you have to shift your gaze to focus there?
On the plus side, if the telly is too big to carry out the door, it has to be harder to nick

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Mobydisc said..
I have a projector and the screen is about 110 inch diagonal. We don't use it much but when we do it's great. To watch normal TV/utube to me a 55 inch TV is fine however I thought the same when we had a 42 inch TV. We also thought the same with our last CRT TV which I think was a 68cm TV.

So we get used to whatever we have. I doubt people back in the 1950s were whinging coz their TV was too small, only had one channel and was in black and white.

Yes, I remember buying a 68cm Sony Trinitron and thinking it was huge. Well, I guess it was as CRTs need to be. A few years later I bought a second hand 80cm 'widescreen' as people were dumping them as the first plazma screens came out.

These were giant TVs to me, and replacing them with a 32" or whatever it was flatscreen was a huge difference. I still have that first LCD TV and it would be fine if I still had to use it.

I was a bit worried though, once I unpacked the latest one that it was too big. I am not sure that bigger is better in this case.

I remember when plasma/lcd first came out, $20k or something ridiculous. These days you couldn't buy a tv that low spec if you wanted to.

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Chris6791 said..
I remember when plasma/lcd first came out, $20k or something ridiculous. These days you couldn't buy a tv that low spec if you wanted to.

I've heard recently that TVs aren't getting stolen at the rate they once use too. Theory being that large TVs are cheap enough now that the crooks can't move them on.

We sit 3.5 meters away from a 50-inch screen in the family room, and 3.5 meters away from a 65-inch in the lounge room. The 65-inch is perfect at that distance, while the 50-inch now feels a little small.

Now that the 75-inch screens are under $1000, I was pondering if they'd feel too big, but I reckon it would be pretty easy to get used to one and then be disappointed with anything smaller. They'll be the minimum size anyone buys in a few months.

JB HI-FI has a lot of their 75-inch TV's on sale, making room for the 85-inch range that are already here. Also, time to get rid of that 'old' 4K TV, the 8K are on the shop floor too. (Might be useful if we had an NBN technology that could support them.)

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Toph said..
I've heard recently that TVs aren't getting stolen at the rate they once use too. Theory being that large TVs are cheap enough now that the crooks can't move them.

Stolen? They're being put out on the kerb for council clean-up where I live.

While some TV programs are better than they used to be, there still isn't a whole lot worth watching, so why have multiple screens? Specially for watching news & current affairs which is mainly talking heads and shots of experts walking along footpaths and corridors.

I've got an old song lyric about TV from the late 70s/early 80s that somebody might know.

"every night I pray to my TV god"

I thought Radio Birdman. It's not theirs but the instruments and pace were similarly frenetic. I must have heard it on JJ. Google doesn't help.
Anybody know it?

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FormulaNova said..
I took delivery of a washing machine today, and the delivery people were talking about how big the TVs are that they deliver. I bought a Samsung TV about 4 years ago and its a 55 inch model, and its perfect for me for the size of loungeroom I have.

Do you get used to large TVs and just want bigger? I can't see how it would be fun having most of the wall as a TV to try and focus on.

Am I missing something or do I just need to sit in my kitchen to watch TV?

My pseudo "TV" is only; Dimensions (WxDxH) 45.9 cm x 38.5 cm x 13.5 cm

But fark me do I get blown away every time I turn it on... could be the sub though, that's a little bigger at 25" (H) X 21.7" (W) X 30.9" (D) and it weighs 174.5 lbs.
Playing Jedi Fallen Order or Forza Horizon 4 on it just fills me w/ joy.

You might need glasses if you can't focus on things a couple meters away.

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Mr Milk said..
....why have multiple screens?

I like to leave the cricket running while I cook, thus a TV in the family area, but if someone wants to watch movie a without constant distraction they'll watch in the lounge room. Anything from 5 to 50 people at our place on the weekend, nice to be able to get away from the crowd if you want.

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Mr Milk said..
I've got an old song lyric about TV from the late 70s/early 80s that somebody might know.

"every night I pray to my TV god"

I thought Radio Birdman. It's not theirs but the instruments and pace were similarly frenetic. I must have heard it on JJ. Google doesn't help.
Anybody know it?

Sounds like it could be a line from "The Trilobites - American TV"?

No but peoples minds are getting smaller.

As a guide to assessing a TV size think about where you and your family sit at the picture theater .
We sit in the back row so a smaller screen is ok for us.
However, the bigger the screen the less wall I need to paint, now I am torn.

One reason why TVs are cheap is due to them all being smart TVs and if the user uses the smart TV app functions, the TV sends user data back to the TV company who then sell on the data to other companies, most notably Facebook & Google.

If TVs did not send on user data TVs would be more expensive,

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FormulaNova said..
I took delivery of a washing machine today, and the delivery people were talking about how big the TVs are that they deliver. I bought a Samsung TV about 4 years ago and its a 55 inch model, and its perfect for me for the size of loungeroom I have.

Do you get used to large TVs and just want bigger? I can't see how it would be fun having most of the wall as a TV to try and focus on.

Am I missing something or do I just need to sit in my kitchen to watch TV?

There are 85 inch tvs in JB hifi for $9k.

There was some Samsung TV on the morning show a few weeks ago retailing for 80k!

The bigger the tv the better the porn

^^^^^^But the more inadequate you feel .......apparently

Kinda like going out with a girl with very very large hands.....again......apparently.

My living room setup

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FlySurfer said..

FormulaNova said..
I took delivery of a washing machine today, and the delivery people were talking about how big the TVs are that they deliver. I bought a Samsung TV about 4 years ago and its a 55 inch model, and its perfect for me for the size of loungeroom I have.

Do you get used to large TVs and just want bigger? I can't see how it would be fun having most of the wall as a TV to try and focus on.

Am I missing something or do I just need to sit in my kitchen to watch TV?

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You might need glasses if you can't focus on things a couple meters away.

I need glasses for close up work anyway, but the problem I see is that the screen is too big to really take in everything I want to take in. Right now I am sitting in front of a 65" TV and am probably about 3 metres away from it. Its too close for me. I think I will end up moving the TV back a bit further and put the lounge a bit further away.

If this was the 55" TV I think it would feel better.

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Mobydisc said..
One reason why TVs are cheap is due to them all being smart TVs and if the user uses the smart TV app functions, the TV sends user data back to the TV company who then sell on the data to other companies, most notably Facebook & Google.

If TVs did not send on user data TVs would be more expensive,

Really? Where did you get this information from? Is there an article you can point to that shows that they sell the data? I can't see it myself as its easy enough to disable the data being sent back or not even connect it to the internet. To be fair, they do make it difficult to set them up without the Internet, but it is possible.

I must mention this to my parents who have a cheap arse TV from Aldi, which definitely doesn't have a connection to the internet as they wouldn't know how to connect it.

I would be amazed if anyone paid for my usage data as its just not that interesting!

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FlySurfer said..
My living room setup

Is that two different rooms setup similarly?

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FormulaNova said..

FlySurfer said..
My living room setup

Is that two different rooms setup similarly?

Exact same room, the TV, I mean projector screen rises up from behind the cabinets.

I used to sell TVs and the joke amongst the delivery drivers was how to tell if the customer was a working class man. His TV was too big for his lounge

Do new tv"s have picture in picture
Mate of mine had a tv with it thought it was a good feature.

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Floter said..
Do new tv"s have picture in picture
Mate of mine had a tv with it thought it was a good feature.

I actually checked this last night, and I don't think they do, at least at the price point I pay. They used to be a big thing but maybe now no one has asked for it or even used it so they dropped it?

I am a little surprised that most TVs don't seem to have two tuners in them as they need to have a particular channel stream in order to populate the EPG guide. My older Sony used to be able to populate the EPG without changing channel, but the new Samsungs I have seem to need you to switch to this channels otherwise they are blank.

Edit: I just checked this, and my Samsung doesn't support it, yet other brands do, and most likely Sony. I also noticed that a lot of TVs before 2005 has twin tuners, and at least with the Samsungs, after 2005 they only have 1. Sort of crazy to cheap out on something like that when its a simple technology.

You all remind me of Mum. She liked to outdo the neighbours. 23" HMV left them all green with envy. And they said we'd get square eyes!

65" corner to corner! Are you sure?

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Ian K said..
You all remind me of Mum. She liked to outdo the neighbours. 23" HMV left them all green with envy. And they said we'd get square eyes!

65" corner to corner! Are you sure?

That one has UHF as well! Must have been a premium model.

65" is over 1.65m corner to corner. Yes, its a big screen, and to take it in you just need to sit back 5 more metres.

I wonder if you can get a converter so that your nice new big screen TV can show an image 'normal' size in a sea of black for people like me?