Why not buy a regular size TV and sit closer
Why not buy a regular size TV and sit closer
It's Amurica.
Bigger is always better.
Why buy any TV? I just wait until there is lawlessness and I go looting.
Well according to that logic you might as well buy a smartphone and look at it.
johnfromSJ wrote:
Well according to that logic you might as well buy a smartphone and look at it.
I was commenting about this to my brother just a week ago, that watching a movie on my phone just draws me in and it really doesn’t feel any different than watching on a 40 inch tv.
elcuriouso wrote:
Why not buy a regular size TV and sit closer
Pure blasphemy!
They are so cheap now, too. I had a 20" tv in the 70s that cost as much as a 50" TV now.
If you throw in inflation, that 20" TV from 1970 would be 4 times as expensive. It's crazy.
Bump. I don’t own a tv and just watch Netflix and YouTube on my laptop. TVs and cable are a waste of money.
Most guys who buy big TVs do it for the same reason as the guys who buy big trucks....
https://youtu.be/wKiIroiCvZ0just because wrote:
johnfromSJ wrote:
Well according to that logic you might as well buy a smartphone and look at it.
I was commenting about this to my brother just a week ago, that watching a movie on my phone just draws me in and it really doesn’t feel any different than watching on a 40 inch tv.
just because wrote:
johnfromSJ wrote:
Well according to that logic you might as well buy a smartphone and look at it.
I was commenting about this to my brother just a week ago, that watching a movie on my phone just draws me in and it really doesn’t feel any different than watching on a 40 inch tv.
Seriously? I cannot imagine watching a movie like 1917 on a screen barely 5 inches big.
Define "regular size".
Luv2Run wrote:
Define "regular size".
These days 55". 70"+ is big and 42" and under is small. I have a feeling that things will stabilize around 65" being the sweet spot that people would pick when price is no object. 75"+ tend to look too big in most normal rooms.
But hey if you want to watch you movies on some 5" phone, go for it. Nobody cares..
Yeah. I just bought a 65'r a couple months ago. I originally was thinking 75 until I cut out a piece of cardboard in that size and hung it on the wall. It took up the entire space with no room too to bottom. I have a very big room for this to go in but it was just way too much. Tried 65 and it's about perfect. That TV is for when the whole famdamily watches a movie. Oh, we don't have cable or satellite and haven't had one of those for 15 years.
Because we were all taught as kids that sitting too close to the TV would fry your eyes.
Seriously there are at least three practical reasons why:
1) many people's situations require that their TV be against one wall of their living room (or in the corner) while their couch is against the opposite wall (or opposite corner even), so sitting closer isn't really an option for many people who don't have extra rooms and need to put the TV in the living room
2) the move to widescreen required TVs to become significantly larger overall to have the same vertical space as previous TVs
3) the move to flat panels made off-angle viewing worse, so if you have multiple people wanting to watch the same TV, they generally need to sit farther away in order for them all to have a decent viewing angle
Fortunately, we have screens of almost every possible dimension so people can choose to watch something on whatever size display they want.
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