When I was a kid, a 19-inch TV was the middle-class standard. Only posh people had a 20-inch. As a young adult, 20-inch TVs seemed to be the standard; and a lot of people who were a little older and had families splurged on larger ones. Around that time, we started seeing the large front-projection and rear-projection big screen TVs. I never liked those. Their pictures were not as good as CRTs. Remember the huge CRT TVs that became popular? Wanted one. Couldn’t afford one, and had no room to put one.
For a decade I had a 20" Sony. Still have it, in fact; stuck in the little bedroom. In 2007 I made the leap. I bought a Philips 26" flat screen LCD. Luxury! About 2-1/2 years ago, the SO moved in. She had a 26" TV, and it was fine for her; so mine was fine as well. (It’s in the middle bedroom, heres, where she can watch videos – no cable there yet.) But 16 months ago she repeated that a bigger TV would be nice, so I bought a 46" Sony flat screen. It’s huge! My Philips went into my bedroom, where I’m just storing it. I’m not one to watch TV in bed, as I did when I was little.
And now… that 46" TV seems just a little too small. :eek: I mean, it’s great. It’s certainly better than the 26", and 20 years ago it would have seemed like science fiction to me. But a 60" TV sure would be nice.
We need to do some remodelling and landscaping. There are other things with higher priority than a new TV. Maybe in a few years…
At hubby’s work they just installed 75" flat screens. The company orders all monitors the same size and the 75" is what they use on the factory floor for messaging.
The fire station day room isn’t much bigger than my living room. The TV takes up an entire wall. In the evening they turn the lights down and it feels like a movie theather.
If the company goes any bigger, they’ll have to build a new station.
On Wonder Boy, my 67" TV, when the program guide is on the image is squished into the upper corner, where it’s still bigger than the 27" TV that was replaced. People are often displayed larger than life. It took a little while to change my focus so I could see the whole thing. I love Wonder Boy, but there’s still a couple of feet on the wall on either side, so he might have to move to the bedroom before long.
Oh, yes. Have you noticed that normal ‘big screen’ televisions seem small now?
I recently converted a room in to a theater with a Panasonic AE-PT8000U projector on a 115" () screen. Before doing this our television was a Sony 27 inch CRT. You know, the old school kind that is as deep as it is wide.
During my remodel last year, I upgraded from a 46" to a 60" in the family room. I’m a little disappointed. I should have gone bigger - the wall can handle it, and the sofa is far enough away.
When I was a kid ~25" was the middle class standard. Of course to get roughly the same height on a newfangled widescreen TV you need something closer to ~40". Silly diagonal measurements, lol.
The diagonal measurement goes back to the old days of the tiny screen to make them sound bigger. It’s kind of stupid now, people want to know if the wall is wide enough for the set, they should advertise the actual width of the screen and the unit as a whole.
it isn’t that they use diagonal measurements, it’s that in days of yore they based the quoted screen size on the entire face of the CRT instead of what you could actually see. (cite:Display size - Wikipedia)
“A problematic practice was the use of the size of a monitor’s imaging element, rather than the size of its viewable image, when describing its size in publicity and advertising materials. On CRT displays a substantial portion of the CRT’s screen is concealed behind the case’s bezel or shroud in order to hide areas outside the monitor’s “safe area” due to overscan.”
) screen. Before doing this our television was a Sony 27 inch CRT. You know, the old school kind that is as deep as it is wide.