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Jeremy

Jeremy

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Yeah big TV and sitting too close could do it. I think in these small Victorian houses where you're never more than 3m from the TV, 40" is plenty big enough.


Some TVs have settings which distort the picture, upscale/interpolate, or are supposed to "smooth" out the motion. Basically you need to turn all this crap off.

*Bob*

*Bob*

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The 'how close you can sit' rule isn't based on the size of the screen, it's based on the definition of the image. So - perversely - you can sit closer to a larger, hi-def image than you could a smaller old-styled CRT image. After that, there's whether it's comfortable or not - which is a personal thing.


Jez is totes right though: the first thing to check out is any interpolation / 'smoothing' feature (or whatever the brand of set you have calls it) which often comes default set as 'on'. It's bloody horrible - made me feel absolutely sick as a dog too until I hunted it down and switched it off.


On the whole, whatever size you get, most people will get used to it - and find it harder to go back to something smaller. 40 would seem too small now.

Loz

Loz

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Jeremy Wrote:

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> Where do you even put a TV larger than 40" in a

> typical vic. terraced house? Anything bigger

> probably won't fit in the alcove. I don't want a

> TV over the fireplace, or hogging the window bay.


The joys of flat screens. We have a 3.5m x 4.5m room with a 55" TV on the longer wall near the door. Bloody marvellous. Mind you, the last owners of the house took the chimney out, which does help.


Looked huge when we got it... now we think 65" might be better!

red devil

red devil

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Loz Wrote:

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> Jeremy Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Where do you even put a TV larger than 40" in a

> > typical vic. terraced house? Anything bigger

> > probably won't fit in the alcove. I don't want

> a

> > TV over the fireplace, or hogging the window

> bay.

>

> The joys of flat screens. We have a 3.5m x 4.5m

> room with a 55" TV on the longer wall near the

> door. Bloody marvellous. Mind you, the last

> owners of the house took the chimney out, which

> does help.

>

> Looked huge when we got it... now we think 65"

> might be better!



This is all starting to sound like the modern day equivalent of the old car/penis size theorem. Quite happy with my 26''er...

Otta

Otta

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We have 46" Samsung, which when we got it in our old place, seemed huge. But that's because the living room was set out so that I tended to sit on the floor a few feet away. Now in out bigger living room where I'm sat at least twice as far from the telly, I could quite happily go larger.


But I am blind as a bat to be fair.

Otta

Otta

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Used to make me laugh when I worked for Greenwich social services with visually impaired people. I'd go and visit some old dear in Woolwich or Thamesmead and their grown kids would say "we got me mum a new telly so she could see it like". I'd walk in the living room and find this immense thing which took up half the room, on a huge great big stand. Most of the time the old dears would tell me when we were alone that they absolutely hated it but didn't have the heart to tell their family that.

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