TOTALLY A TAAT do you think big tellies are common?

[LennyCrabsticks]

And if so, can you explain why?

I'm fascinated by the whole concept.

Educate me.

I don't have a huge tv. I don't care or think about other peoples tv. Why would you?

I was on the thread too. BTW a TAAT is permitted by MN law if it was your thread to start with Lenny! :o

I was brought up to think big tellies and many other things were common. When I say it now, especially on here, I'm being tongue-in-cheek and referring to my upbringing. I don't actually go around calling things common!

And actually although I still feel a bit bad about the massive telly DP insists on, one thing that's good about it is it makes me common and shows my snobby parents where to stick it. I enjoy the fact that every time my mum sees it she almost has a conniption.

I also dislike the trend of hanging TVs above the fireplace. I just don't care for how it looks.

It's also too high.

I want to relax when watching TV. Not have to gaze upwards making my neck ache.

Yes telly high up over fireplace is not common, just terribly wrong. I don't want to feel like I'm in a grim sports pub.

Lenny - do you also have a feature wall?

I don't. But only because it's a brand new house and all the walls are white.

My lovely flat screen is white. Samsung. Fades into the White walls a treat. And it's above the fire place. But that's logical as round here it's mostly 1930s semis and there's no other way to work the room. Sometimes the obvious really is the answer. So, not common.

Totally common.

We have one! (42")

I was against it but outvoted by DS and DP (of course), but now Iike it.

The reasons I didn't want it are:
It looks ugly in the room, ugly great black screen when it isn't on, the size is disproportionate to the room.
It makes it look as if that what our front room is mainly for (we only have one reception room and one TV in the house)
It was a ot of money - I don't like to prioritise TVs and cars for spending.

But I do like watching it.

When I am rich I would like a well kitted out cinema room devoted entirey to watching good films and box sets, comfy seating, lighting and acoustics and sound all set up, huge screen... or for now a TV room and a TV free room, which would be more tasteful.

Just noticed a typo in my previous message. It was meant to say "I'm not English so that may account for it." Anyway, obsession with class does seem a peculiarly English pastime.

RAF is rough as fuck not rich as fuck Dixie.

I can certainly see how some utter so called intellectual snobs would laugh and sneer at them, I have seen relis do so....

however I dont thikn they are common at all, esp if you love film, sport etc....a big telly is fab...a whole different experience, after all its what people pay through the nose at the cinema for.

I hate intellectual snobs. At University everyone thought I had landed from another planet because they had never heard a Northern accent before. They shut up quick when I beat them on the exams.

My big telly is next to the piano, in the dining room - what does that make me? (other than the owner of a house with not enough rooms)

It is a bit common to refer to people as common. Or rather, a bit LMC. Posh people rarely do things like that.

That said I agree it's hard to buy a small tv now. They are either too small or about 40 inch (I have no doubt it's possible to buy any size you want but they're bit commonly available and rarely cheaper)

I'm off Tv anyway. They're old fashioned. Streaming through your tablet or phone is the way to go. In a few years people will
Look at big TVs and laugh they way we laugh at those TVs with backs now.

To turn this on it's head -

We are very common, and yet have a 40ft living room and a 50 inch plasma.

I don't like televisions which are too big for the room they are in

^This.

I have nothing against big TVs but if they are in a small room so that you have to sit very close then I find it a bit overpowering. Our living room is not that big and our 32" is just fine.

I remember when I first left home about 30 years ago I only had a B&W portable but was quite used to that. When I went home to my parents for Christmas they had just got a large (seemed it at the time but wouldn't be classed as such now) colour TV which had the volume turned right up as my Dad was hard of hearing. For the first day or two it made me feel quite ill until I got used to it.

Big TVs are the only ones I can watch, but then I do have 6:60 vision (best corrected) Even sitting 3 feet away from our 50", DH still has to read subtitles to me.

In our extension we're going to get a 60" - hopefully I'll be able to sit 4 feet from it!

A tv should be the right size for the room imo.

There are two ways you can optimise your TV size.

1. Choose the one that makes the room look best when the TV is off. (When it's on it doesn't matter what the room looks like, you're watching TV.)
2. Choose a TV that gives the best TV-watching experience.

Personally, I think 2 makes more sense. In that case, the room size has nothing to do with it. Essentially, for HD television, you should have one with a width that is half your viewing distance. So if your eyes are 8 feet from the screen, 4-feet wide.

If your TV is less than 50" then your room is going look strange because you will have to position your sofa near a wall, facing the wall, in order for your viewing distance not to be suboptimal.

I presume people who buy a small TV in order to optimise the look of the room also choose their car according to what it looks like on the driveway, as opposed to how it functions for getting people and things from A to B.

Yeah, a bit, if it's too big for the room and been bought purely on the basis that they can brag they have a ?? inch TV!

No. I don't think they are common. But I do think putting your Christmas decorations up before the second weekend in December is very very common and I judge ruthlessly those who do.

I need to get that off my chest. Would go down like a lead balloon in real life!!

Déclassé rather than common.

But I spend the vast majority of my time in my sitting room not watching TV, so I am prepared to sacrifice viewing quality for a nicer environment the rest of the time.

My graphics card is worth more than my tv.

My pc is huge, it's dubbed by friends and family as the mean machine. A proper 3 screen gaming computer.