Your Telly

fergiesfolly

We have 37 inch telly image averaged sized living room and it suits us fine. It doesn't take over the room but it's big enough to watch anything on it.
I've been in homes where there are 55-65 inch screens and they overwhelm the room, even when they're off.
So AHers, what size is your Telly( that's television, don't pretend you mis-read the title)? Is it a smart TV and do you actually use all the features?
Is it too big or not big enough?
Did you have buyers remorse when when you realised how big it was compared to the room it's in?

Specialun

Is your telly chinese..i hear people say chinese have the smallest

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

I've a projector, so it literally does take over one entire wall.

Don Kiddick

Fiddy inches....oh....and my TV is big too!

o1s1n

Massive TVs in small Irish living rooms is just so...low class :pac:

Harry Palmr

I'm watching a 22" as the room is small and the distance is too. Funny thing is that it work well as it means SD picture quality is acceptable. I'd imagine that a 55 incher in the average front room shows every one CM squared pixel of some channels.

Del2005

o1s1n wrote: »

Massive TVs in small Irish living rooms is just so...low class :pac:

Should only upper class people be allowed large TVs?

server down

o1s1n wrote: »

Massive TVs in small Irish living rooms is just so...low class :pac:

Worrying about other people’s TV is mrs Bucket level of social concern.

I have a 36 inch CRT.

batistuta9

Harry Palmr wrote: »

I'm watching a 22" as the room is small and the distance is too. Funny thing is that it work well as it means SD picture quality is acceptable. I'd imagine that a 55 incher in the average front room shows every one CM squared pixel of some channels.

I remember the first LCD TV I got & being disappointed with the picture on most channels.
Really stood out compared to the CRT it replaced

Harry Palmr

Del2005 wrote: »

Should only upper class people be allowed large TVs?

It looks shoddy, the kind of people of live in the shadow of their TV set (obviously with the "shop" settings still as default!) are the kind who holiday in Florida and have a patio heater.

Agricola

40" TV I got back in 2010. That's about as big as the sitting room could accomodate without it looking ridiculous. Was in a DID or Currys lately as it now seems 40" screens are fired into the corner for the riffraff to look at. Its all 43" minimum now.

jamesbere

Replace telly with penis and this thread is a lot funnier

Harry Palmr

What amazes me is when people have the TV positioned on a wall above the fireplace so everyone has to look up and the screen surely gets covered in a layer of muck eventually.

smurfjed

Sharp 70 inch fitted with two satellite decoders and apple TV. I can sit about 4 meters away from it. Love it for watching sports.

Wanderer78

28 inch crt, and it's goosed, but it is almost 18 years old.

Oldtree

I've never measured my TV

Don Kiddick

jamesbere wrote: »

Replace telly with penis and this thread is a lot funnier

You're a bit late to that party bhoyo

Oldtree

Don Kiddick wrote: »

You're a bit late to that party bhoyo

Clearly a young innocent lamb.

horse7

Apart from size is there any advantage in a smart tv?

jamesbere

Don Kiddick wrote: »

You're a bit late to that party bhoyo

That's what she said

Don Kiddick

horse7 wrote: »

Apart from size is there any advantage in a smart tv?

When it learns to cook you can chuck out the wife

Oldtree

horse7 wrote: »

Apart from size is there any advantage in a smart tv?

My TV has a mind of its own.

fergiesfolly

jamesbere wrote: »

Replace telly with penis and this thread is a lot funnier

Especially if the small ones are all fired in the corner in Currys.

Wanderer78

Oldtree wrote:

My TV has a mind of its own.

Mine to, it has recently taken to switching itself off

antodeco

Replace TV with poo instead of penis and it's even better

fergiesfolly

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Mine to, it has recently taken to switching itself off

Our last tv had a motion sensor and would go into standby if it didn't detect movement after a certain amount of time. Couldn't figure out how to switch off the feature and would have to wave at the telly to keep it going.
I started to resemble the old dears that wave to Marty Whelan when the lottery show starts.

retalivity

0in - Havent had a tv since 2009.

Lia_lia

Ours is 26inch. Never really saw the interest in a huge telly. Maybe if the place we live in was bigger than a 2 bed terraced house. We don't have Sky or anything but we have a chrome-cast and an Apple TV. I could easily do without a tv (and have done) but my OH "needed" one for his XBox. So here we are.

In my Mother's house she had a TV from 1990 in the sitting room until a few years ago.

o1s1n

Del2005 wrote: »

Should only upper class people be allowed large TVs?

Your television should match the size of your room.

server down wrote: »

Worrying about other people’s TV is mrs Bucket level of social concern.

I have a 36 inch CRT.

I have a 14 inch Commodore 1084s monitor, do I win?

You guys do realise my original post was in jest, yes?

RayM

32 inches here. But enough about my television...

Wait, I'm doing this wrong.

colm_mcm

49, but the chairs/couch are far away from it so it works.

Greentopia

Del2005 wrote: »

Should only upper class people be allowed large TVs?

Upper class people don't own TVs.

Wibbs

42 inch plasma(Panasonic).

Agricola

The ultimate in middle class snobbery is having a good brand 32" old LCD.

That tells people "Hey, I knew to buy a Panasonic, and it's sleek minimalist lines speak to my style consciousness, but I really don't watch TV that much, it's only for news and art documentaries, so a smaller model was sufficient"

Sonics2k

Have a 50" Sony 4k TV. I'd never spend the actual money it costs to buy one of them, but I won a competition in work a few years back and it was the top prize.

Colleague of mine recently spent like €7,000 on a TV and I'm just baffled by it.

Harry Palmr

Greentopia wrote: »

Upper class people don't own TVs.

They employ a performing trope of players to enact Downton Abbey in the drawing room.

Greentopia

Mine is my iMac for when I want to watch a TV channel. Got rid of the telly years ago as I rarely watched it. Bonus is no licence or subscription service to pay for.

eviltwin

I have a 50 Panasonic smart tv. I reckon we use the tv so much it makes sense to have the best one we could afford. Love the internet capabilities.

Mister Vain

92 inch telly. We installed the telly first and then built the house around it.

One eyed Jack

Upgrade the TV every five years or thereabouts, so 20 years ago -

20 inch CRT - "It's like a cinema screen!"

15 years ago -

32 inch widescreen CRT - "It's like a cinema screen"

10 years ago -

42 inch LCD - "It's like a cinema screen"


I'm planning on getting a 65 inch 4K TV and upgrading from Sky HD to Sky Q, I rarely ever watch TV, but when I do... :pac:

Ash.J.Williams

Greentopia wrote: »

Mine is my iMac for when I want to watch a TV channel. Got rid of the telly years ago as I rarely watched it. Bonus is no licence or subscription service to pay for.

That doesn't disqualify from tv license does it?

whoopsadoodles

I've far too many Tellies and I barely even watch TV.

Cantona's Collars

42 inch in the living room, Android box hooked up for my TV shows and movies. It's a smart TV but the Android box is smarter.
49 inch in the other room, usually cartoons and video games on that.
Both are big enough,a mate of mine swapped out a 50 inch for a bigger one even though the room it's in is way too small for the 50 inch,let alone a bigger TV.

Estrellita

I only watch TV in the evening with Mr Est., I abhor day time television, utter trash. Mr Est is far more into the technology of the thing than I am. I think it's 42", and a 4K thing whatever that all means. It plays Netflix, YouTube and what not on it. Whatever size it is it doesn't swamp the living room because the room itself is quite big.

Think there are three in all. Other TV's belong to our resident gamers (teenagers). None in our room because I think a bedroom ought to be a peaceful place. There's no TV where we eat either because it's not right to sit ignoring each other during meal times, I cannot stand that.

Mrs OBumble

retalivity wrote: »

0in - Havent had a tv since 2009.

+1 ... 'cept 2007 in my case.

Generation NTV is still the hippest one in town. And we have more brain cells 'cos we don't have an Idiot Box sucking them out of us.

Sonics2k

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

That doesn't disqualify from tv license does it?

Still need a TV licence indeed.

Mrs OBumble

40inch in the living room and 32 inch in the bedroom. Have a 19inch tv also that's not really used much anymore. Next tv won't be smaller than 55inch as I find 40 small enough now.

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

+1 ... 'cept 2007 in my case.

Generation NTV is still the hippest one in town. And we have more brain cells 'cos we don't have an Idiot Box sucking them out of us.

Well that's a boring generation.

Mr Meanor

I measure my screen in Meters.
You measure your screen size in inches!
How cute.

AVFC.Stephen

Sony bravia 49 inch smart tv. Never really watched tv until we got this. Having YouTube Netflix or putting in a usb with a movie on it. Or streaming etc. I never actually turn on the decoder and watch normal channels unless there's a match on

Lia_lia

Sonics2k wrote: »

Still need a TV licence indeed.

I don't think so. Pretty sure there was talks of bringing in that law but it never happened. An iMac is a desktop computer, don't think it counts as a tv even if using it to watch tv shows..

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly

32" Sony. The speakers have gone crackly. Speakers always seem to be the weakest part of tellies.