# Will TVs get any bigger? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 29, 2008, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-tvs-get-any-bigger/470056 "2008-10-29T05:26:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-tvs-get-any-bigger/470056/21 "2008-10-29T14:36:33Z")
When I was growing up, the family TV was a 19-incher. I think that was pretty standard in those days. And we had to walk uphill both ways to watch it. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-tvs-get-any-bigger/470056/22 "2008-10-29T15:07:21Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > You consider 60" big? How sad. We have a projector and the image is thrown onto a screen that measures 7.5 FEET diagonally That’s 90 inches. When I set up my system, I measured it at 106 inches. Playing XBOX on this screen _rules._ ---
**Author:** ![motomoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@motomoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/motomoon)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-tvs-get-any-bigger/470056/23 "2008-10-29T15:16:47Z")
> [@FatBaldGuy](#): > > Please let me know where you can get projector bulbs for $50-$100. The ones for my projector are in the $300-$400 range, shopping around for the best price on the internet. Wow, they are more pricey than I thought! ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-tvs-get-any-bigger/470056/24 "2008-10-29T15:36:08Z")
Mine is 92" IIRC. When we get an extra grand to drop on a new screen, we’ll probably add another foot or so. I can’t imagine trying to play Rock Band on anything smaller, let alone watching movies on something else. Lack of wall space and too much light aren’t problems for us, but I can understand if they are for others. ---
**Author:** ![Minnie\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Minnie\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minnie_Luna)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-tvs-get-any-bigger/470056/25 "2008-10-29T16:05:16Z")
We have a friend who has a 103" projection set-up. Quality is great, no fan sound that I can detect. He regularly has people over for events like the World Series, etc. His room is set-up with black out curtains and is very cave-like. It works for his particular room. We have 42" DLP and 36" LCD. The 42 DLP in the family room is sometimes a pain because we can’t block out all the light and you do get shadows, but we would have that no matter what TV we had in that room. The 36 is in the bedroom and that one isn’t an issue because of where the windows are in relation to the TV. In our current layout, we can’t go much bigger than what we have. All of our rooms are too small to have a larger screen than what we do. IIRC, replacement bulbs for the DLP are about $300-400. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-tvs-get-any-bigger/470056/26 "2008-10-29T16:27:06Z")
> [@EpicNonsense](#): > > That’s what I’m talking about. This type of in-home TV can only become so large. If TV’s get too much larger they won’t fit in the door, the room, the house, or the backyard for that matter… People who get screens like that tend to build rooms specifically for viewing. They build the room around the screen, not the other way around. ---
**Author:** ![hellpaso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-tvs-get-any-bigger/470056/27 "2008-10-29T17:34:42Z")
> [@EpicNonsense](#): > > Do you really want a TV the size of your wall, or bigger??? My roommate has a $10,000 Sharp LCD 60" flatscreen which takes up maybe 1/4 of the wall in his room. I think it’s really cool at first, but shit… that’s a huge bitch! Give’s me a headache after a while. why would somebody pay $10,000 for a 60 inch tv? I paid under $3000 for my samsung 52 inch lcd. Do you think maybe your friend is just _telling_ you they paid that much?? ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-tvs-get-any-bigger/470056/28 "2008-10-30T06:50:19Z")
[Here](http://www.nextag.com/Sharp-PN-G655U-65-552005359/prices-html) is a 65" Sharp LCD monitor for $7,100-$8500 (depending on where you shop). It’s not hard to imagine a 60" going for $10K a couple years ago. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-tvs-get-any-bigger/470056/29 "2008-10-31T03:48:30Z")
My projector could fill a larger screen, but I went for brightness instead of size. Inverse square law. It’s a CRT projector, and our goal was to duplicate the theatrical experience. ---
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-tvs-get-any-bigger/470056/30 "2008-10-31T04:11:49Z")
> [@hellpaso](#): > > why would somebody pay $10,000 for a 60 inch tv? I paid under $3000 for my samsung 52 inch lcd. Do you think maybe your friend is just _telling_ you they paid that much?? He bought the TV when it was brand new on the market. He may be over-exaggerating but it seems plausible. As for how he afforded the TV, he was in a car accident and got a nice chunk of cash. He’s fine though. He went through the money within a year but has a lot of cool stuff to show for it at least. ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-tvs-get-any-bigger/470056/31 "2008-10-31T21:34:24Z")
My SO just bought a reconditioned projector for about $600. It’s fun to occasionally take down the artwork and watch a movie, and I want to play Mario Cart with it, but I don’t see it becoming the standard “Let’s see what’s on” TV. Why ever would I want to watch most cable or broadcast TV with that much detail on it? I really don’t want to see up their noses, or read what’s on that piece of paper on their desk. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-tvs-get-any-bigger/470056/32 "2008-10-31T21:52:24Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > I saw [this 150 inch TV](http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/01/08/new-record-for-worlds-largest-tv/) in a shopping centre media display but I’m sure it was branded Panasonic. It looked huge even in a mall I can’t imagine a room big enough to watch it. I can’t find the article, but I saw a TV like that, if not larger. The guy who bought it didn’t worry about putting it in a room. It was outside by his pool, so he and his friends could watch it from there. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-tvs-get-any-bigger/470056/33 "2008-10-31T21:53:53Z")
> [@whitetho](#): > > Eventually all the walls and ceiling of a room will be covered with a special wallpaper that can display video, so you can watch programs “in the round”. But you will also be able to control the display size, so individual programs can be seen on a smaller scale. And I will re-welcome my new hallucinogenic overlords when this happen. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-tvs-get-any-bigger/470056/34 "2008-10-31T22:16:31Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > I can’t find the article, but I saw a TV like that, if not larger. The guy who bought it didn’t worry about putting it in a room. It was outside by his pool, so he and his friends could watch it from there. [Found the article.](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/garden/12theaters.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1) What I was thinking of is a projector. Still, fun article about how people are moving their TVs outdoors. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-tvs-get-any-bigger/470056.md?page=1)