When are you going to upgrade your tv?

[bedubabe]

The man next door asked us this earlier this evening. They've just bought a new massive tv.

We have a tv that's pretty big in my opinion (around 40 inches I guess and HD and everything).

AIBU to just not get why a really massive tv is essential? If I was going to splurge the best part of a grand on something it certainly wouldn't be a tv.

[clam]

Your neighbour asked you how much your table had cost????!!
This would be shockingly rude even from a close friend or family member, but form the man next door? What on earth made him think that that was an OK thing to ask.
Point out that in the UK, large TVs are regarded by me some to be a bit, er, how shall I say.... common?

[LynetteScavo]

Er...when it brakes.

We've had our over 8 years. It was top of the range then and considered big then. I think my 12 year old is about to start being embarrassed by it but hey, I see that as an essential part of childhood. DH and I both had to go through it.

[WhereTheWildThingsWere]

Old, fat, small telly here, will replace when it dies.

My Mum has only just replaced her TV, which was her Mums and was made of wood. (Not the screen obv.)

[Finallyspring]

I am with clam huge TVs are indeed common

[emptyshell]

We bought a fairly decent sized (but not chav-o-rama massive one with some money we got for a wedding present the other year (think it's 42 inch - I know we intentionally went a size larger than we initially planned as I figured if we went smaller we'd probably wish we hadn't 6 months down the line). It's tucked into a corner of the room though - I hate massive TVs that dominate the entire lounge.

Perhaps he's got confused with the digital switchover thing - I know we go off in August but since we've got Sky boxes in the lounge and bedroom (my one big extravagance - I like watching telly in bed) it's only our tiny little CRT thing in the spare room that's affected by that one.

Mum's waging a campaign of war with step-father to persuade him to buy the same telly we've got now - they've got a tiny TV (and step-father has short arms and deep pockets) and everytime she comes here she gets hooked on the picture quality ours has got.

[MmeLindor.]

Your neighbour is very rude.

We upgraded to a 40" TV recently. Any bigger would be too big for our living room. It is much better than our old TV, especially for watching films and sport but I would not want a larger one.

[TrillianAstra]

Who is this rude man who says things like "how much did that cost?" and "how long has it been on today then?"?

[clam]

When we had our extension built recently the builder was beginning to get on my nerves with his "I've got an expensive this and that" routine.
He kept banging on with "what you want there is a tv like mine, a 60" wall-mounted flat-screen blah-di-blah"
In the end I ended up saying that I had no intention of getting one of those as I could think of nothing worse.
It bugs me, all these people who like to tell you how big their willies are much money they've got by buying stuff they think will impress you. But doesn't.

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

clam - your response should have been 'clearly you are charging too much for your work if you can afford all that'

[bonkers20]

We have a cathode ray telly. We get Freesat through it. Why replace it if it isn't broken? I think this need to replace things which aren't broken is a big problem in our "got to have it now" society.

[clam]

Damn. Missed an opportunity there, kitten!
But this is the same guy who used to rifle through our skip and take home stuff we'd chucked!

[befuzzled]

I know someone that recently replaced their 32"CRT with a 50" CRT. they have a small, rectangular living room. It looks ridiculous, tbh. I think if you are getting 40+ the room needs to be big enough to take it, and right size for acoustics and viewing angles (things you dont have to worry about with old CRTS).

Some may say I am envious but my rules for when we get a flatscreen are:

On the wall in the living room is chavvy/waggy/drugdealery - what is wrong with a sideboard and stand (kitchens I will make an exception for).

42" is way big enough unless you are putting it in a home cinema. Massive tvs in small living rooms are chavvy/waggy/drugdealery/overpaidbuildery

[LIZS]

Ours is over 15yrs old and still going. It is stereo at least but only about 28". Really don't feel the need until it goes wrong.

[olibeansmummy]

We have a 42' flat screen tv on the wall and any bigger would be TOO big and would look ridiculous! I thought this post would be about upgrading to 3d tv, which will be never as it's totally rubbish!

[olibeansmummy]

Ps befuzzled, on the wall is much better as ds can't get to it to knock it over!

[IHateMarlo]

we had a little 16-17 portable type tv for ages when we first started living together, when that died my DSis gave us her HUGE 26" TV which we had till early last year, when it died.
Fo the first time we actually had money to spend, not been over intrested told OH to get what he thought best, as knew he would have researched it backwards & forwards.
He came home with a 46" monster, as big as our front room is [dowstairs is pretty open plan] I still think it looks weird.

However we have realised a monster. . . OH keeps muttering about moving this one to our bedroom; over my cold dead body!!! Or in to the spare room study and could our wall hold a 50+ TV, mutter mutter, wanders around with tape measure, does all this during the one or 2 things I do watch often so is always stood in front of TV.

Silly thing is, it rare for hime to actually sit and watch TV, so I think it's a gaget thing rather than a TV thing

[QuimFabray]

I'm an inverted snob about televisions. Generally I find the smaller and older the set, the more educated the owner is.