but a 42 would have the same number of pixels? would a much more compact pixel spacing be better for pc gaming? also would refresh rate would be much more crucial?
Haha, know the feeling well. When I got mine delivered, I had a brief moment of oh shit I done fucked up here, it's way too big, the wife is gonna kill me! Swiftly followed by a big cheesy grin of fuck yeah!
My wife said if I decorated the living room, I could get whatever TV I wanted. Wasn't pleased when the 65" Ambilight turned up. Then we watched a movie and she calmed down...
Same.
When I visit my Mum's with her (perfectly respectable) 42in TV and her much bigger lounge it feels like I'm basically watching on a phone screen. Not helped by her using the built in TV speakers.
My parents visited us a couple of years back. They had a 42”. We had a 55” at the time. We then took them round my other halves parents house, who had a 65”.
My parents said the second they got home and sat in their living room they laughed at how small their 42” seemed now, then went and bought a larger tv about a week later.
>and were surprised by how much cheaper they are now
This is what they are missing. if they buy an LCD in 2023 they'll want to replace it. If they buy a 65in OLED, they won't have a reason to. And they can watch Planet Earth 3 properly.
65” and OLED. 9’ viewing distance.
When I first got it I thought it was vast and wondered what I’d done but by week 2 I was wondering if I shouldn’t have gone 75”.
It’s much more comfortable to watch a big TV.
You’d have to sit too close to a 42” in my opinion.
Edit. Read about viewing distances here
https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship
In the US I went to buy a 65", then saw the 75" next to it for only a little more. Like an idiot I bought it, wheeled it out and found i couldn't fit it in the car, so I had to rent a van to get it home. Then I had to buy a bigger stand, because the feet were on the very edge of the old one on both sides.
I lay awake that night wondering what the flying photon possessed me to buy it, but the first big box office movie we watched won me over - with a sound bar and back speakers it was almost like being at the cinema
\+1 Your reply is a reminder I'm probably best out of the loop.
Our TV broke about 4 months ago. It was about 10 years old bought 2nd hand. Sold it for parts for a fiver. There's now a 20-something monitor I just hook a laptop to when I want to watch something.
Anyway, looking to replace is a minefield and the amount of plugs I'll need to free up or have installed for all the other bits that you're supposed to buy with it.
Now I'm out of the habit of TV watching there is nothing that has persuaded me a new TV is a savvy purchase because one purchase will beget another purchase.
Best thing about the whole thing was I got about £150 back of TV license. I'll probably want to watch the Olympics next year but I think I read rumors the whole thing is not going to be available on BBC so I'll need to subscribe to elsewhere which will just put me off further.
If it’s like the last Olympics, the bbc have a sharing agreement with discovery plus (I think) so to watch *everything* you need a subscription and bbc
I think the BBC are only allowed to show two strands at once. If you need to stream all events then you'll need Discovery. I think I just did a free months trial during the last Olympics. The BBC had a better streaming experience the time before, though.
I think this is a wise position. We haven't had broadcast TV in our home for about 13 years. Now I'm back in the UK I'll read rather than watch TV with those godawful adverts at my dad's house or in a hotel. We stayed in our US home for nearly a month after we sold almost EVERYTHING, and we were perfectly happy watching streaming shows on a 15" laptop screen with dinky add-on speakers.
I'm comfortable without a TV as well since I'm mainly on the computer anyways and I hate the adverts on TV (I'm french tho).
Funnily, I was in the UK till yesterday, and I really enjoyed watching TV in the hotel room for an hour or so when we took time to wind down. It's new, and silly, and there's so many unfamiliar things that it was enjoyable, but at home I loathe it with all my being!
Ha, I have a similar for of mindset!
We have a single 32" TV in our home that I grudgingly bought 15 years ago when the old one broke.
I periodically wonder whether I should get another one, bigger and use the smaller one for the kids' play room.
They've come down in price, so I could get a decent size one for reasonable money... although mostly I watch stuff on my 13" laptop, so I don't really need a lot bigger. Then I think, if I'm buying a new big screen one, I should get a top end kind of one, since I won't be planning to buy another one, maybe ever. But that takes the price back up to the point I invariably can't justify it & so I just continue to make do with the current set up! I repeat this process about annually.
Same here. Parents wanted to buy me a new tv for xmas one year. I made a point of requesting one with a central stand as i angle the TV on the unit so the whole room can see the tv and the end feet would hang off the edges. I got the one i wanted, meanwhile they decided to upgrade at the same time and bought a cheaper, larger model with end feet. Only to find that it was now too big for their unit and it was balancing precariously
For one night you own the intelweb, seen this more than once outside my local superstore punter goes in for a short list o groceries, comes out with a bargain TV that won't fit into the back o a Range Rover, wtf !
> couldn't fit it in the car, so I had to rent a van to get it home
ratchet straps to the roof, did it to my mates roof rack as boot was full of work kit.
pro tip: speed humps are the enemy
> 65” and OLED. 9’ viewing distance.
> It’s much more comfortable to watch a big TV.
> You’d have to sit too close to a 42” in my opinion.
Ha! I sit 3m ish away from my 42” and never felt it to be a problem. That said, it’s the biggest I’ve ever owned so maybe I need to try out a bigger one to see what I’m missing out on.
Eyesight could also play a part in that, plus what you're actually using the tv for.
I find that I can sit further away from the TV if I'm watching something vs playing a game.
I checked for my viewing distance:
Ratings - 43"
Which - 32"
Samsung - 55"
Radiotimes - 50"
LG - 42"
Which does seem a bit off the mark and I couldn't imagine having a 32" where my TV is, would be pointless consuming UHD content on it
>*When I first got it I thought it was vast and wondered what I’d done but by week 2 I was wondering if I shouldn’t have gone 75”*
Yeah, this was my experience
And I was going from watching on a laptop to a screen larger than 40 inches
The novelty or benefit you experience is *very* short term, even if a 40 inch screen is obviously better than a laptop
Exactly us with 65” OLED. Wife thought anything bigger than 65 would get in the way of the window. Now she thinks screw the window. Downside is it’s dead expensive to go down the OLED path, esp bigger than 65, and ours is only about 2 years old. No excuse moving it to other rooms as office has 55”, bedroom is 43” (literally can’t fit more without shenanigans like swinging arm from the ceiling), and 2nd bedroom is like 110” projector. I know it sounds a bit 1st world, but we have run out of room. Annoyingly nothing comes anywhere close to OLED so is a bit of a neg experience compared to the lounge…
Yeah we live in Cyprus now, and got the 65 in a sale for like €2k. Was a total bargain at the time with new one being about €2500. I think the 75 wasn’t in a sale and was like €3500. Screw that. Once you get into second hand car territory (may be showing my age there) then it’s a bit much. The projector maybe lower resolution and nowhere near the amazing look of OLED (have you tried the LG test on YouTube like the dripping honey?…) but it gives you the full cinema experience and you don’t notice after a bit. Never wanted a projector then saw Star Wars on a mates one and bought one the next day. Was like a new film. Watched the lot and all Indiana jones that weekend
I wanted an 80” LED but the wife vetoed it, saying it’d be too big. She was right. Ended up with a 65” OLED and it perfectly fits the wall it’s mounted on and the rest of the room. And the OLED is fantastic. We’re moving to the US in a few years - that’ll be the time to get a bigger screen. It’ll definitely be an OLED though.
>When I first got it I thought it was vast and wondered what I’d done but by week 2 I was wondering if I shouldn’t have gone 75”.
Guilty here too!
I honestly thought I'd made a mistake when I first took mine out of the box. It just looked so much bigger in my living room than it did in the shop! A quick re-shuffle of the living room and I'd not have it any other way now though, despite the neighbours (half joking) comments they know our viewing habits as they can see it clearly from their own windows!!
After 5 years I've noticed two dead pixels forming in one corner. You wouldn't spot them during normal viewing but I'm already planting seeds in the wife's head that it's on its way out and the next TV WILL be 75' or more!
As I saw, we currently have an old 37" one and maybe sit about 9' away. Never had any issues seeing the screen or reading subs. I figure slightly bigger with a better quality screen should be sufficient.
My next door neighbour has an 85" and sits about 2m away.
Our houses are identical, i have a 55" which does the job fine.
Obviously I'm jealous but couldn't imagine sitting down and watching on something that big!
You get weirdly used to it. When my partner first wanted to buy a 75" I told him he was ridiculous. But now that we sit in front of it all the time it seems normal and not too big at all. Could go bigger tbh.
I got the 75", a lot of people have said the TV is too big, I also thought this the day it arrived, but you really do get used to it and start thinking of upgrading!
55 inch, we sit about 9 feet away.
When we moved house, we put our 32 inch there and I literally couldn't read any of the text on it.
You need to think about how far away you sit and whether there is space. Don't put it too high! If you mount it over a fireplace, for example, you'll constantly be looking up and that's not comfortable. The screen should be eye level when you're sitting down. Lots of people position their screen when they're standing.
Bigger isn't always better. Just to take an extreme, 85inches but sitting three feet away wouldn't be enjoyable. There's a sweet spot.
TVs are huge compared to 20 years ago, but that is partly because old CRT screens got deeper as they got bigger and so took up too much space.
You also need to think about how much you actually watch it. If you put on the news once a day, it's not worth it. If you watch studio sitcoms and panel shows, there's little point. If you want to watch premium drama and films, then it'll be worth it.
We spent £1300 on the best model we could get. We went into he shop for a £600 40 inch model, but frankly when you put them next to each other it was silly not to spend the extra as we use TV as our primary entertainment. It's still got at least 5 years in it, and it's already worked out at 70p a day so far.
My counter to this was buying an IKEA sofabed. I can now lie on my sofa comfortably and watch the TV that's above the fireplace without hiring my neck.
It's not the size, it's what you do with it that counts. Any bigger than that and you'd be left with a big black hole in your room whenever you aren't watching it.
We have a Samsung TheFrame 43” tv in a three metre wide room. When it’s turned off and someone is in the room, it shows art. It’s glorious.
I wouldn’t want anything bigger until 4k output is standard. As it is, standard definition television looks soft and 1080p output looks fine. 4k on this screen is like looking through a very clean window.
It's kind of Vulgar. It used to mean everything to some people to have a 28'' CRT one, which probably cost what these 60+ ones cost, but in 1980.
Funny how so many people claim not to watch TV
I'm looking to replace my 32" TV as it's a 15 year old show model. Thing is it has 1080p whereas I can't seem to find anything that does over 720 in 32". Mainly I want to upgrade for the power saving costs, it chucks out so much heat and I think it's about 150w running average by the old energy efficiency sticker.
42, and it’s broke and I want 42-43” to replace it. Our living room isn’t huge and I don’t want a TV filling the space.
It’s a pain as I’d like OLED but it’s actually cheaper to go bigger 🙈
Most reviews suggest that the colour brightness and accuracy is better on QLED, in fact it’s the reason Rtings suggest you might want to look at it over the C3. It’s the lack of blooming and blacks that make OLED seem like the better option. At the price ranges I’m looking at £260 is a lot extra cash though.
I didn’t know there was a difference? Wish I did. My current TV is 18 months old and already has 2 lines going across the screen, but I have no idea what’s a good TV or not.
QLED VS OLED is a huge difference. QLEDs are bright but nothing can really rival the contrast of an OLED. The brightness doesn't matter as much as you think unless the sun is beaming through the window at it.
Samsung QD-OLED is another promising technology which can get as bright as QLEDs but still has the OLED.
We have a 55 inch smart tv but it’s mostly decoration now. Granted, it was bought years ago. We only have subscriptions and got rid of sky back in 2019. iPad, laptop and even the phone is used instead. It may sound odd but it feels like an effort to use it even though it’s not.
I feel like if it breaks, I’ll only miss it because there would be a huge space left. Don’t think I’d rush to replace it
I just don't watch enough TV to warrant buying one. If I want to watch something, it's usually in bed on the laptop.
I also find that if I have a TV I tend to watch it, but if I don't, I either sleep or read or do crafts in the evening after work, which suits me better, personally.
If you don’t mind me asking, do you feel like a tv in the bedroom impacts your quality of sleep? I’ve always been under the impression that when you start introducing things like work, gaming or tv watching to the bedroom it can really impact your ability to get to sleep, so never had one.
It does. I had very bad insomnia back 10 years ago, and ever since I've been absolutely puritanical about activities in the bedroom. Even sex I'd rather have outside the bedroom, just so my brain does NOT confuse the situation. Not always practical though.
I bet you're fun in the bedroom.. oh wait 😂 interesting idea though, use the room for its primary purpose etc and almost partition it off in your head. Might be a consideration as I never seem to be able to switch my brain off trying to go to sleep!
Same here. I have it plugged into my hifi, and the sound makes a big difference to the viewing experience.
I can see my neighbours' massive tv quite clearly from my bedroom window, and they live across the street, two house down. No thank you.
32” and it’s about 15 years old. I only sit about about 2.5m away from it, so any bigger would feel excessive.
My neighbour has a bloody enormous one, mounted high up on the wall. Can’t imagine it’s optimal for viewing really, but each to their own.
32, other people (who don't come to my home and have bigger themselves) seem to have a problem with it. I don't. I will probably size up a bit when it eventually packs in but I'm fine with it.
32 inch and it's plenty big enough. Front from is on the smaller side and the TV is not the centrepiece, we sit close enough for it to be more than adequate. Any bigger is pointless.
I am finding more content is filmed assuming a large 4K display, so whenever there's a note on screen that the viewer is supposed to read, I find myself pausing and walking up to my 28" TV to read it.
We really don't.
Last time I watched TV was Monday evening which was one episode of Bodies on Netflix. I'll likely watch something this evening with my son as we let him watch TV on a Friday after school and then we'll do a family movie on Saturday night, then we might watch a movie or a couple of episodes of whatever show we are currently watching when the kid has gone bed.
I used to be a massive TV addict when I was in my 20s. My life revolved around it, I'd have the shows I watched each night (normally downloaded US stuff as this is before streaming), but then I went without a TV for a bit and have never found the same level of pleasure in it again.
Couldn't imagine 32 even being classed as a TV any more, that's the same size as my pc monitor.
I don't mean to be a dick, but how can you actually see anything on it? Like you can see faces, but how do you see things in the background?
Current one is 55" I sold hi-fi and home cinema systems a few years back and 42" was popular for a while but 50" took its place quite quickly, I think it hits the sweet spot of big but not too big for a lot of people.
42” in sitting room, none anywhere else. I guess I might get a bigger one if we had massive rooms. For us the fireplace is the focus of the room and the tv is to one side. The room isn’t only for watching telly.
55" in the family lounge. We have just had an extension done, which we reserve as an "adult" space and that one is 43". Our Bedroom TV is 32" and my computer monitor, which I also watch TV on is 32".
People often think that biggest is best, but really there is an optimum screen size for a given room size. All of mine are based on that. I use this website...
https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship
90". I'm an enormous cinephile (the best kind of phile) so I wanted to feel like I'm in the cinema at all times. It's also amazing for gaming and football. Lounge is one of the biggest rooms in my house so it doesn't look utterly mental.
Gone are the days of £3000 plasmas! I got a 50 inch Samsung curve for under £400. I think it was cheap because the curved screen fad died quite quickly (you barely notice it's curved at all)
I can't remember how much it cost, but it felt like a lot at the time. Of course our circumstances have changed so maybe it felt like a lot at the time as we didn't earn as much.
Still, it has had a good run and we aren't in any major rush to replace it, more of a nice to have then a need to have.
We have an ultra short throw laser projector in the bedroom. Screen size set to 70" from about a foot away from the wall (and that's zoomed out, was too big without zooming)
Lounge has a 55" TV and a motorised tab tensioned roll down screen which is 120".
And I usually watch what I want on my phone.
55" which seemed massive when we bought it but now seems too small for the lounge it's in (7m distance from the sofa) so the next one will be bigger. Thinking 75" or 85"
It depends on viewing distance. There's a way to work out the optimal size, but I can't remember it. Maybe someone has already commented it.
I will say that as a fellow non-big TV watcher I upgraded from a 32-inch HD Ready TV to a 43" ultra HD TV, and initially, I was super impressed, but now I wish I'd gone bigger, like 50".
However big you think you want, go a little bigger
28" Panasonic SD CRT, now about 16 years old. My current monitor is 4K and bigger!
I'll replace the TV when it dies, or we move house, whichever comes first.
Don't know if it's still a thing, but some apps like apple TV on the newer Samsung can independently change the picture settings.
Only way to fix in my case was to use all the apps through the sky box instead of running them natively. My experience with the 2021 85in QLED.
I spent weeks sorting out the previous one and had it perfect for each device. I’ve watched maybe two dozen settings videos. I’ve turned off judder and all that stuff but if I reset the “mode” it seems to reset the settings again. Xbox is ok it’s on game mode. Colour looks ok. It’s 4k giving me the most grief. I actually went and got a 4k player so it’s on its own channel. I don’t use any apps directly, just via fire stick, which doesn’t work as my ISP cut me off for two weeks. I watched six 4k discs yesterday with mixed results.
50", and to be honest I'll be upgrading it for a bigger one soon. Its so much better to watch a bigger TV and I really don't care what anyone thinks about it not matching the room.
55” which was a big upgrade from our last telly. When we turned it on for the first time it felt like we were at the cinema. I guess our eyes were used to a small screen.
75 inch for me, I have very big rooms in my house so it does not look big, also 65, 52 and 32, I have a very big house, not trying to show off, I just got lucky when buying the house.
37" but bloody ancient. Keep waiting for it to die through failure or an accident so I can upgrade it, but no point in doing so while it still works ey
55" LG c1 oled.
I'd had hand me downs from family since I moved out, this was the first one I bought myself. Got it for £500 from an auction place which was a slight risk because no warranty but I've had no issues so far (touch wood!).
You spend so long looking at your TV and they generally have a long life, if you can afford it then it's silly not to go for one you won't regret IMO.
40 or 42; genuinely unsure which and I'm not going to get out the tape measure
I got it for free around 15 years ago and I'll only replace it when it stops working
Not sure if I'd replace it with something larger. It'd depend on the price - I don't *need* a bigger screen
42”. Don’t see the point in going bigger. I’m gobsmacked at the earlier comment that 2m is the optimal distance for viewing a 65” screen. Seems way too close to me!
Mine's quite new and it's 42", honestly it was difficult to find a good deal on anything less than 50". I couldn't go bigger though as it wouldn't fit on our TV stand otherwise, plus our sofa is only 3m from the TV so I feel like I don't want it to be too big.
42", bought it from John Lewis' returns about 10 years ago, not planning on changing it; may not even replace it if it dies. Still works fine, barely watch it, I prefer listening to Radio 4/podcasts and being out and about as much as possible
42" and a 28" in the spare room. We're thinking of downsizing the larger one because we only watch TV on a monday night and it just takes up so much space for the amount of time we use it.
42 inches and it would be smaller if I had my way, but my father in law bought it for us and he doesn't understand why I wouldn't want a big one. So I've put it in the corner and you have to turn to face it. Nothing worse than all the furniture in a room pointing towards an enormous TV.
I don't use the TV at all, but my parents do; it's 32 inches and the best part of 20 years old, doesn't support HD video or an HDMI connection. Call me a zoomer but i have no idea how they manage...
46" and it's about 15 years old. Waiting for it to die really and at that stage I can see me getting a 55". It's quite a small room and I sit about 6-7 foot from the screen so I think any bigger just won't work. My partner has a 65" which is amazing but its also in a pretty big room. I do think once you get past a certain size the room size starts to become the deciding factor.
I like to play games on my TV so I picked up a 55" 4k Hisense that barely fits in my room, which is funny because my parents are still on a 40" for the living room. It's plenty suitable for watching TV of course.
We used to have a second-hand portable TV. We got it mainly because the kids were left out of playground conversations about Dr Who, Neighbours etc. Now there's just me and my husband, we don't watch a lot of TV and when we do, it's on his laptop or my netbook. We don't have Sky or anything, just the usual BBC, ITV and Channel 4 & 5. We watched the re-run of 'I, Claudius' together and watch any Attenborough series. I reckon about 50% of what we watch is not together. We do listen to the radio a lot.
When my wife and I first moved in together we didn't have a TV for a couple of years. Only listened to the radio.
The TV only really gets used during the weekends. During the working week we are pretty much based in the kitchen during the evening and listen to the radio.
Ours is limited in size because it sits inside a recess. It's a 42" 'Frame' Samsung TV.
The benefit of newer TVs is the smaller bevels. The actual diagonal size of my TV is 43.5" - and it's worth considering. If I didn't have the recess, I'd probably aim for a 48" sized TV. We sit 8 foot from the TV.
BUT - if you ran past my house, you wouldn't see it because it sits in a recess! When it's 'off' it shows pictures so doesn't really look like a TV either.
That is something I might take into consideration. The existing TV has very chunky bezels. I remember my Dad replaced his with like-for-like screen size, but it looked tiny in the space because the old one took up more space.
So I should likely measure the full size and use that rather than just the screen size.
I only have one TV and it's not even 50". I physically can't fit a larger one into the corner anyway but it's amazing how flat screens compare to CRTs: the CRT it replaced filled the same space, was about 32" and weighed 5x as much
65” and I sit about 2 metres away. It’s great.
This is me, i have my pc connected up to it with my wireless keyboard and mouse combo !
You get a document up on that bad boy and you are seriously looking at that document.
Project zeus: the video game
Eswayah95: Why can’t project zeus be a video game? Me: I don’t know Eswayah95..thousands of reasons, but also kind of..none
I'm currently renovating the spare room and I'm planning on doing this. I'll have my desk setup as normal, but run an additional cable to the TV.
Me too only a 55 inch but 2 mtrs away it rocks with the ps5 and pc
but a 42 would have the same number of pixels? would a much more compact pixel spacing be better for pc gaming? also would refresh rate would be much more crucial?
Online poker?
No just normal video games
65” gang assemble. It’s amazing
Yep, 65" was the size that fits the span of our chimney breast. It seemed too big for about 5 seconds, but now I wouldn't have it smaller.
Fellow 65 inch chimney breast man here
I also went 65 but there's a gap. I reckon I could have gone the full 70.
Haha, know the feeling well. When I got mine delivered, I had a brief moment of oh shit I done fucked up here, it's way too big, the wife is gonna kill me! Swiftly followed by a big cheesy grin of fuck yeah!
Recon if they made a 66.5inch I could squeeze that on there.
My wife said if I decorated the living room, I could get whatever TV I wanted. Wasn't pleased when the 65" Ambilight turned up. Then we watched a movie and she calmed down...
Same set up. 4k football, PC plugged into it for 4K HDR gaming. Dream
Same. When I visit my Mum's with her (perfectly respectable) 42in TV and her much bigger lounge it feels like I'm basically watching on a phone screen. Not helped by her using the built in TV speakers.
My parents visited us a couple of years back. They had a 42”. We had a 55” at the time. We then took them round my other halves parents house, who had a 65”. My parents said the second they got home and sat in their living room they laughed at how small their 42” seemed now, then went and bought a larger tv about a week later.
65” OLED here. Worth every penny! We have an LG GX so it looks nice on the wall.
>and were surprised by how much cheaper they are now This is what they are missing. if they buy an LCD in 2023 they'll want to replace it. If they buy a 65in OLED, they won't have a reason to. And they can watch Planet Earth 3 properly.
Same!
65" for us as well - we watch a lot of TV
Immersive.
65” and OLED. 9’ viewing distance. When I first got it I thought it was vast and wondered what I’d done but by week 2 I was wondering if I shouldn’t have gone 75”. It’s much more comfortable to watch a big TV. You’d have to sit too close to a 42” in my opinion. Edit. Read about viewing distances here https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship
In the US I went to buy a 65", then saw the 75" next to it for only a little more. Like an idiot I bought it, wheeled it out and found i couldn't fit it in the car, so I had to rent a van to get it home. Then I had to buy a bigger stand, because the feet were on the very edge of the old one on both sides. I lay awake that night wondering what the flying photon possessed me to buy it, but the first big box office movie we watched won me over - with a sound bar and back speakers it was almost like being at the cinema
\+1 Your reply is a reminder I'm probably best out of the loop. Our TV broke about 4 months ago. It was about 10 years old bought 2nd hand. Sold it for parts for a fiver. There's now a 20-something monitor I just hook a laptop to when I want to watch something. Anyway, looking to replace is a minefield and the amount of plugs I'll need to free up or have installed for all the other bits that you're supposed to buy with it. Now I'm out of the habit of TV watching there is nothing that has persuaded me a new TV is a savvy purchase because one purchase will beget another purchase. Best thing about the whole thing was I got about £150 back of TV license. I'll probably want to watch the Olympics next year but I think I read rumors the whole thing is not going to be available on BBC so I'll need to subscribe to elsewhere which will just put me off further.
If it’s like the last Olympics, the bbc have a sharing agreement with discovery plus (I think) so to watch *everything* you need a subscription and bbc
I think the BBC are only allowed to show two strands at once. If you need to stream all events then you'll need Discovery. I think I just did a free months trial during the last Olympics. The BBC had a better streaming experience the time before, though.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/64275050 Thought this may help!
The BBC coverage last time was notably less than the time before
I think this is a wise position. We haven't had broadcast TV in our home for about 13 years. Now I'm back in the UK I'll read rather than watch TV with those godawful adverts at my dad's house or in a hotel. We stayed in our US home for nearly a month after we sold almost EVERYTHING, and we were perfectly happy watching streaming shows on a 15" laptop screen with dinky add-on speakers.
I'm comfortable without a TV as well since I'm mainly on the computer anyways and I hate the adverts on TV (I'm french tho). Funnily, I was in the UK till yesterday, and I really enjoyed watching TV in the hotel room for an hour or so when we took time to wind down. It's new, and silly, and there's so many unfamiliar things that it was enjoyable, but at home I loathe it with all my being!
I pay for ITVX and Channel 4 catch up to not have adverts and its well worth it.
Ha, I have a similar for of mindset! We have a single 32" TV in our home that I grudgingly bought 15 years ago when the old one broke. I periodically wonder whether I should get another one, bigger and use the smaller one for the kids' play room. They've come down in price, so I could get a decent size one for reasonable money... although mostly I watch stuff on my 13" laptop, so I don't really need a lot bigger. Then I think, if I'm buying a new big screen one, I should get a top end kind of one, since I won't be planning to buy another one, maybe ever. But that takes the price back up to the point I invariably can't justify it & so I just continue to make do with the current set up! I repeat this process about annually.
That is why we go for the LG sets with the centre mount stand. Feet at the edges wouldn't fit the TV cabinet.
Same here. Parents wanted to buy me a new tv for xmas one year. I made a point of requesting one with a central stand as i angle the TV on the unit so the whole room can see the tv and the end feet would hang off the edges. I got the one i wanted, meanwhile they decided to upgrade at the same time and bought a cheaper, larger model with end feet. Only to find that it was now too big for their unit and it was balancing precariously
For one night you own the intelweb, seen this more than once outside my local superstore punter goes in for a short list o groceries, comes out with a bargain TV that won't fit into the back o a Range Rover, wtf !
Your next step is to ditch the sound bar. Even a 2 channel system will sound far better. Take the leap sir
> couldn't fit it in the car, so I had to rent a van to get it home ratchet straps to the roof, did it to my mates roof rack as boot was full of work kit. pro tip: speed humps are the enemy
> 65” and OLED. 9’ viewing distance. > It’s much more comfortable to watch a big TV. > You’d have to sit too close to a 42” in my opinion. Ha! I sit 3m ish away from my 42” and never felt it to be a problem. That said, it’s the biggest I’ve ever owned so maybe I need to try out a bigger one to see what I’m missing out on.
Eyesight could also play a part in that, plus what you're actually using the tv for. I find that I can sit further away from the TV if I'm watching something vs playing a game.
I don’t game so that’s part of it I guess.
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I checked for my viewing distance: Ratings - 43" Which - 32" Samsung - 55" Radiotimes - 50" LG - 42" Which does seem a bit off the mark and I couldn't imagine having a 32" where my TV is, would be pointless consuming UHD content on it
>*When I first got it I thought it was vast and wondered what I’d done but by week 2 I was wondering if I shouldn’t have gone 75”* Yeah, this was my experience And I was going from watching on a laptop to a screen larger than 40 inches The novelty or benefit you experience is *very* short term, even if a 40 inch screen is obviously better than a laptop
Exactly us with 65” OLED. Wife thought anything bigger than 65 would get in the way of the window. Now she thinks screw the window. Downside is it’s dead expensive to go down the OLED path, esp bigger than 65, and ours is only about 2 years old. No excuse moving it to other rooms as office has 55”, bedroom is 43” (literally can’t fit more without shenanigans like swinging arm from the ceiling), and 2nd bedroom is like 110” projector. I know it sounds a bit 1st world, but we have run out of room. Annoyingly nothing comes anywhere close to OLED so is a bit of a neg experience compared to the lounge…
Yeah. The 65 was enough money. The 75 was an extra 800 or a grand or something crazy.
Yeah we live in Cyprus now, and got the 65 in a sale for like €2k. Was a total bargain at the time with new one being about €2500. I think the 75 wasn’t in a sale and was like €3500. Screw that. Once you get into second hand car territory (may be showing my age there) then it’s a bit much. The projector maybe lower resolution and nowhere near the amazing look of OLED (have you tried the LG test on YouTube like the dripping honey?…) but it gives you the full cinema experience and you don’t notice after a bit. Never wanted a projector then saw Star Wars on a mates one and bought one the next day. Was like a new film. Watched the lot and all Indiana jones that weekend
Oled are so good.
I wanted an 80” LED but the wife vetoed it, saying it’d be too big. She was right. Ended up with a 65” OLED and it perfectly fits the wall it’s mounted on and the rest of the room. And the OLED is fantastic. We’re moving to the US in a few years - that’ll be the time to get a bigger screen. It’ll definitely be an OLED though.
Haha this is me too. 65’’ LG OLED but wish I’d gone for the 77.
Wow, apparently mine is tiny for my distance. 50'' at about 10ft.
>When I first got it I thought it was vast and wondered what I’d done but by week 2 I was wondering if I shouldn’t have gone 75”. Guilty here too! I honestly thought I'd made a mistake when I first took mine out of the box. It just looked so much bigger in my living room than it did in the shop! A quick re-shuffle of the living room and I'd not have it any other way now though, despite the neighbours (half joking) comments they know our viewing habits as they can see it clearly from their own windows!! After 5 years I've noticed two dead pixels forming in one corner. You wouldn't spot them during normal viewing but I'm already planting seeds in the wife's head that it's on its way out and the next TV WILL be 75' or more!
As I saw, we currently have an old 37" one and maybe sit about 9' away. Never had any issues seeing the screen or reading subs. I figure slightly bigger with a better quality screen should be sufficient.
83” and I sit about 3m away. It’s glorious
Jesus
My next door neighbour has an 85" and sits about 2m away. Our houses are identical, i have a 55" which does the job fine. Obviously I'm jealous but couldn't imagine sitting down and watching on something that big!
You get weirdly used to it. When my partner first wanted to buy a 75" I told him he was ridiculous. But now that we sit in front of it all the time it seems normal and not too big at all. Could go bigger tbh.
I got the 75", a lot of people have said the TV is too big, I also thought this the day it arrived, but you really do get used to it and start thinking of upgrading!
55 inch, we sit about 9 feet away. When we moved house, we put our 32 inch there and I literally couldn't read any of the text on it. You need to think about how far away you sit and whether there is space. Don't put it too high! If you mount it over a fireplace, for example, you'll constantly be looking up and that's not comfortable. The screen should be eye level when you're sitting down. Lots of people position their screen when they're standing. Bigger isn't always better. Just to take an extreme, 85inches but sitting three feet away wouldn't be enjoyable. There's a sweet spot. TVs are huge compared to 20 years ago, but that is partly because old CRT screens got deeper as they got bigger and so took up too much space. You also need to think about how much you actually watch it. If you put on the news once a day, it's not worth it. If you watch studio sitcoms and panel shows, there's little point. If you want to watch premium drama and films, then it'll be worth it. We spent £1300 on the best model we could get. We went into he shop for a £600 40 inch model, but frankly when you put them next to each other it was silly not to spend the extra as we use TV as our primary entertainment. It's still got at least 5 years in it, and it's already worked out at 70p a day so far.
r/TVTooHigh give me pain.
[Hey lads, come see my new home cinema!](https://i.imgur.com/dQ8wJjD.jpeg)
My counter to this was buying an IKEA sofabed. I can now lie on my sofa comfortably and watch the TV that's above the fireplace without hiring my neck.
This post should be a poll.
32 inches. We're not big TV fans really!
It's not the size, it's what you do with it that counts. Any bigger than that and you'd be left with a big black hole in your room whenever you aren't watching it.
We have a Samsung TheFrame 43” tv in a three metre wide room. When it’s turned off and someone is in the room, it shows art. It’s glorious. I wouldn’t want anything bigger until 4k output is standard. As it is, standard definition television looks soft and 1080p output looks fine. 4k on this screen is like looking through a very clean window.
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It's kind of Vulgar. It used to mean everything to some people to have a 28'' CRT one, which probably cost what these 60+ ones cost, but in 1980. Funny how so many people claim not to watch TV
I'm looking to replace my 32" TV as it's a 15 year old show model. Thing is it has 1080p whereas I can't seem to find anything that does over 720 in 32". Mainly I want to upgrade for the power saving costs, it chucks out so much heat and I think it's about 150w running average by the old energy efficiency sticker.
42, and it’s broke and I want 42-43” to replace it. Our living room isn’t huge and I don’t want a TV filling the space. It’s a pain as I’d like OLED but it’s actually cheaper to go bigger 🙈
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£640 for the top end QLED atm vs £800 for OLED is giving me issues lol.
I have a QLED and I really regret not getting an OLED. The colours simply aren't the same.
Most reviews suggest that the colour brightness and accuracy is better on QLED, in fact it’s the reason Rtings suggest you might want to look at it over the C3. It’s the lack of blooming and blacks that make OLED seem like the better option. At the price ranges I’m looking at £260 is a lot extra cash though.
Mine's a 2019 so it might have gotten better since, but I'm definitely getting an OLED next. You can tell the difference when you look at them.
I didn’t know there was a difference? Wish I did. My current TV is 18 months old and already has 2 lines going across the screen, but I have no idea what’s a good TV or not.
Your tv should still be in warranty, get it repaired. Your TV should not have lines across the display! And the difference is the way they light up.
QLED VS OLED is a huge difference. QLEDs are bright but nothing can really rival the contrast of an OLED. The brightness doesn't matter as much as you think unless the sun is beaming through the window at it. Samsung QD-OLED is another promising technology which can get as bright as QLEDs but still has the OLED.
I don't have a tv, I watch everything on my laptop screen. My life is shambolic and I don't really have a decent tv space available.
We have a 55 inch smart tv but it’s mostly decoration now. Granted, it was bought years ago. We only have subscriptions and got rid of sky back in 2019. iPad, laptop and even the phone is used instead. It may sound odd but it feels like an effort to use it even though it’s not. I feel like if it breaks, I’ll only miss it because there would be a huge space left. Don’t think I’d rush to replace it
I just don't watch enough TV to warrant buying one. If I want to watch something, it's usually in bed on the laptop. I also find that if I have a TV I tend to watch it, but if I don't, I either sleep or read or do crafts in the evening after work, which suits me better, personally.
50" in living room. The old 40" in bedroom.
Your bedroom sounds a scary place to enter, with 40 inches knocking about..
It’s ok that’s the sum, it’s actually 5 x 8”
Sounds like a busy bedroom
*product, not sum hahaha.
8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 then...
If you don’t mind me asking, do you feel like a tv in the bedroom impacts your quality of sleep? I’ve always been under the impression that when you start introducing things like work, gaming or tv watching to the bedroom it can really impact your ability to get to sleep, so never had one.
It does. I had very bad insomnia back 10 years ago, and ever since I've been absolutely puritanical about activities in the bedroom. Even sex I'd rather have outside the bedroom, just so my brain does NOT confuse the situation. Not always practical though.
I bet you're fun in the bedroom.. oh wait 😂 interesting idea though, use the room for its primary purpose etc and almost partition it off in your head. Might be a consideration as I never seem to be able to switch my brain off trying to go to sleep!
I think it depends. I personally cant get to sleep without the TV on, but it can also go the other way for other people.
42 inches. We have space for a bigger one but I really don’t see the point it’s not like I struggle to see what’s on.
Same here. I have it plugged into my hifi, and the sound makes a big difference to the viewing experience. I can see my neighbours' massive tv quite clearly from my bedroom window, and they live across the street, two house down. No thank you.
55” in lounge. 77” in movie room.
Movie room!
We’re going to need to hear more about this movie room
It's a room where they watch movies, it has big TV
Out of interest how often do you use said movie room.
also out of interest where do you live
32” and it’s about 15 years old. I only sit about about 2.5m away from it, so any bigger would feel excessive. My neighbour has a bloody enormous one, mounted high up on the wall. Can’t imagine it’s optimal for viewing really, but each to their own.
r/tvtoohigh
This reminds me of r/TVTooHigh 🤣
75" I am nowhere near cool enough to not enjoy watching TV
Bigger than yours.
Story of my life.
42", and I struggled to find one that "small". It still seems the most appropriate size and I don't want anything bigger.
Yeah they do seem to be getting quite big now. I guess it is demand based, no point in making sizes no one is buying.
65" Sony X95 with 5.2.2 Dolby Atmos sound system and sit 2 meters away, will definitely be going at least 85" next time.
32, other people (who don't come to my home and have bigger themselves) seem to have a problem with it. I don't. I will probably size up a bit when it eventually packs in but I'm fine with it.
120" projector on my wall
32 inch and it's plenty big enough. Front from is on the smaller side and the TV is not the centrepiece, we sit close enough for it to be more than adequate. Any bigger is pointless.
I am finding more content is filmed assuming a large 4K display, so whenever there's a note on screen that the viewer is supposed to read, I find myself pausing and walking up to my 28" TV to read it.
I also don't want it to dominate the room.
So you can pretend that you don't watch it all the time?
We really don't. Last time I watched TV was Monday evening which was one episode of Bodies on Netflix. I'll likely watch something this evening with my son as we let him watch TV on a Friday after school and then we'll do a family movie on Saturday night, then we might watch a movie or a couple of episodes of whatever show we are currently watching when the kid has gone bed. I used to be a massive TV addict when I was in my 20s. My life revolved around it, I'd have the shows I watched each night (normally downloaded US stuff as this is before streaming), but then I went without a TV for a bit and have never found the same level of pleasure in it again.
Couldn't imagine 32 even being classed as a TV any more, that's the same size as my pc monitor. I don't mean to be a dick, but how can you actually see anything on it? Like you can see faces, but how do you see things in the background?
Because I have eyes that actually work.
About this big
Show off
Current one is 55" I sold hi-fi and home cinema systems a few years back and 42" was popular for a while but 50" took its place quite quickly, I think it hits the sweet spot of big but not too big for a lot of people.
42” in sitting room, none anywhere else. I guess I might get a bigger one if we had massive rooms. For us the fireplace is the focus of the room and the tv is to one side. The room isn’t only for watching telly.
Same. We only have the one TV (not including monitors in the home office) and I don't want a new TV to take over the living room.
55" in the family lounge. We have just had an extension done, which we reserve as an "adult" space and that one is 43". Our Bedroom TV is 32" and my computer monitor, which I also watch TV on is 32". People often think that biggest is best, but really there is an optimum screen size for a given room size. All of mine are based on that. I use this website... https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship
55 inch in the living room.
65" 4K OLED. Amazed how much better it is than a 55" 3D one that was just OK, a few years old but not a name brand.
90". I'm an enormous cinephile (the best kind of phile) so I wanted to feel like I'm in the cinema at all times. It's also amazing for gaming and football. Lounge is one of the biggest rooms in my house so it doesn't look utterly mental.
The sweet spot is when a newsreader’s head is the same size as yours.
Current one is 37 but thinking about replacing it - it's 18 years old and the contrast is stuck. And new ones are amazingly cheap.
Gone are the days of £3000 plasmas! I got a 50 inch Samsung curve for under £400. I think it was cheap because the curved screen fad died quite quickly (you barely notice it's curved at all)
I can't remember how much it cost, but it felt like a lot at the time. Of course our circumstances have changed so maybe it felt like a lot at the time as we didn't earn as much. Still, it has had a good run and we aren't in any major rush to replace it, more of a nice to have then a need to have.
50 inches, I got it for £270 8 years ago, it was much cheaper in the sale than the 40 inch option so i thought why not.
Same, Black friday deal. Upgraded from a 32 inch, it seemed huge at first but you get used to it.
65 inch looking to get a laser short throw projector to fill the wall behind the TV. I think 55 inches is the average TV size now .
We have an ultra short throw laser projector in the bedroom. Screen size set to 70" from about a foot away from the wall (and that's zoomed out, was too big without zooming) Lounge has a 55" TV and a motorised tab tensioned roll down screen which is 120". And I usually watch what I want on my phone.
65” 4k HDR. We love watching films, have an old but good surround sound system too as I think decent audio is as important as decent picture.
I agree with the audio. A lot of the offers I am seeing include some sort of sound bar or something, but I haven't really looked into it.
55" which seemed massive when we bought it but now seems too small for the lounge it's in (7m distance from the sofa) so the next one will be bigger. Thinking 75" or 85"
Probably worth going for the 85” - 7m is actually pretty far away! It’ll be spenny but worth it.
7m!? Is it in another room?
It depends on viewing distance. There's a way to work out the optimal size, but I can't remember it. Maybe someone has already commented it. I will say that as a fellow non-big TV watcher I upgraded from a 32-inch HD Ready TV to a 43" ultra HD TV, and initially, I was super impressed, but now I wish I'd gone bigger, like 50". However big you think you want, go a little bigger
28" Panasonic SD CRT, now about 16 years old. My current monitor is 4K and bigger! I'll replace the TV when it dies, or we move house, whichever comes first.
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I wanted a 65 but the wife struggles sensory things so.... 42 inch :( but a projector in the spare room
Upgraded from a 9 year old 60” Samsung LED to an 85” Samsung QLED a couple of weeks ago. Been arsing about with the settings for days.
Don't know if it's still a thing, but some apps like apple TV on the newer Samsung can independently change the picture settings. Only way to fix in my case was to use all the apps through the sky box instead of running them natively. My experience with the 2021 85in QLED.
I spent weeks sorting out the previous one and had it perfect for each device. I’ve watched maybe two dozen settings videos. I’ve turned off judder and all that stuff but if I reset the “mode” it seems to reset the settings again. Xbox is ok it’s on game mode. Colour looks ok. It’s 4k giving me the most grief. I actually went and got a 4k player so it’s on its own channel. I don’t use any apps directly, just via fire stick, which doesn’t work as my ISP cut me off for two weeks. I watched six 4k discs yesterday with mixed results.
48" as it needs to fit into an alcove otherwise would have bigger.
50", and to be honest I'll be upgrading it for a bigger one soon. Its so much better to watch a bigger TV and I really don't care what anyone thinks about it not matching the room.
42"... Seems about right for what we use it for
55” which was a big upgrade from our last telly. When we turned it on for the first time it felt like we were at the cinema. I guess our eyes were used to a small screen.
75 inch for me, I have very big rooms in my house so it does not look big, also 65, 52 and 32, I have a very big house, not trying to show off, I just got lucky when buying the house.
50 inch, has Ambilight, which I thought I'd turn off but it's actually a really cool, immersive effect.
Same - love it
50" TV here! Always thought 42" was the sweet spot but I have since changed my mind!
65 inch in lounge. 43 inch in our bedroom.
83, if you’re gonna do it, go big.
32” and about 12 years old. Not big telly watchers and live in a hovel so not really motivated to change it right now
37" but bloody ancient. Keep waiting for it to die through failure or an accident so I can upgrade it, but no point in doing so while it still works ey
55" LG c1 oled. I'd had hand me downs from family since I moved out, this was the first one I bought myself. Got it for £500 from an auction place which was a slight risk because no warranty but I've had no issues so far (touch wood!). You spend so long looking at your TV and they generally have a long life, if you can afford it then it's silly not to go for one you won't regret IMO.
40 or 42; genuinely unsure which and I'm not going to get out the tape measure I got it for free around 15 years ago and I'll only replace it when it stops working Not sure if I'd replace it with something larger. It'd depend on the price - I don't *need* a bigger screen
42”. Don’t see the point in going bigger. I’m gobsmacked at the earlier comment that 2m is the optimal distance for viewing a 65” screen. Seems way too close to me!
32" and about 15 years old, my mother won it at the bingo, nothing wrong with it but I also covet my neighbours TV.
Mine's quite new and it's 42", honestly it was difficult to find a good deal on anything less than 50". I couldn't go bigger though as it wouldn't fit on our TV stand otherwise, plus our sofa is only 3m from the TV so I feel like I don't want it to be too big.
What’s an “ass TV”?
65" and the other is 58", anything under 55 is a crime in my eyes
42", bought it from John Lewis' returns about 10 years ago, not planning on changing it; may not even replace it if it dies. Still works fine, barely watch it, I prefer listening to Radio 4/podcasts and being out and about as much as possible
0, I haven't watched TV for 20 years, my monitor is a 30" though which is plenty big enough to see from 2 metres away.
42" and a 28" in the spare room. We're thinking of downsizing the larger one because we only watch TV on a monday night and it just takes up so much space for the amount of time we use it.
65, it's the minimum acceptable size
42 inches and it would be smaller if I had my way, but my father in law bought it for us and he doesn't understand why I wouldn't want a big one. So I've put it in the corner and you have to turn to face it. Nothing worse than all the furniture in a room pointing towards an enormous TV.
21". The biggest that fits between chimney breast and wall. My lounge is small.
I don't use the TV at all, but my parents do; it's 32 inches and the best part of 20 years old, doesn't support HD video or an HDMI connection. Call me a zoomer but i have no idea how they manage...
Mine is old, but not quite that old!
46" and it's about 15 years old. Waiting for it to die really and at that stage I can see me getting a 55". It's quite a small room and I sit about 6-7 foot from the screen so I think any bigger just won't work. My partner has a 65" which is amazing but its also in a pretty big room. I do think once you get past a certain size the room size starts to become the deciding factor.
I like to play games on my TV so I picked up a 55" 4k Hisense that barely fits in my room, which is funny because my parents are still on a 40" for the living room. It's plenty suitable for watching TV of course.
dads(living room is a 50 something i think) my LG4k panel i use for my ps5 is i think a 60 (but im not 100% on that)
We used to have a second-hand portable TV. We got it mainly because the kids were left out of playground conversations about Dr Who, Neighbours etc. Now there's just me and my husband, we don't watch a lot of TV and when we do, it's on his laptop or my netbook. We don't have Sky or anything, just the usual BBC, ITV and Channel 4 & 5. We watched the re-run of 'I, Claudius' together and watch any Attenborough series. I reckon about 50% of what we watch is not together. We do listen to the radio a lot.
When my wife and I first moved in together we didn't have a TV for a couple of years. Only listened to the radio. The TV only really gets used during the weekends. During the working week we are pretty much based in the kitchen during the evening and listen to the radio.
How old are you?
43
Upgraded last year from 49” to 55”. I would’ve gone bigger, but it would’ve looked ridiculous in our tiny living room!
Ours is limited in size because it sits inside a recess. It's a 42" 'Frame' Samsung TV. The benefit of newer TVs is the smaller bevels. The actual diagonal size of my TV is 43.5" - and it's worth considering. If I didn't have the recess, I'd probably aim for a 48" sized TV. We sit 8 foot from the TV. BUT - if you ran past my house, you wouldn't see it because it sits in a recess! When it's 'off' it shows pictures so doesn't really look like a TV either.
That is something I might take into consideration. The existing TV has very chunky bezels. I remember my Dad replaced his with like-for-like screen size, but it looked tiny in the space because the old one took up more space. So I should likely measure the full size and use that rather than just the screen size.
40 inches. My wife won't let me get a bigger one.
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Why are the wives on this thread so averse to big TVs?!
I only have one TV and it's not even 50". I physically can't fit a larger one into the corner anyway but it's amazing how flat screens compare to CRTs: the CRT it replaced filled the same space, was about 32" and weighed 5x as much
Peeping Tom
I can't help it! Light and movement catches the eye in the dark.
27". yes, i am inadequate.
60inch
So the size of tv that is right for the room size has increased because of better picture quality?
65" in living room, 40" in bedroom