to think a 32" is really quite large enough?

[BettyButterknife]

Just been offered a free gift with a mobile phone upgrade - it's this Sony TV worth £400

Thing is, everywhere I look online it's being marketed as a second 'compact' TV for kitchen/bedroom. It's a 32" screen!

I don't get it. Has the world gone mad? Surely it's big enough by anyone's standards? Or am I the only person in the universe not to have a flipping massive wall-mounted flat-screen in their living room??

yep, loads of people have humungous tv's - I bought the one you linked to 6 months ago when we upgraded the old crt one - and I deliberately went for a 32" as it was plenty big enough for our house

wtf? I have a 32" in the sitting room, its quite large enough. I have been looking for a second "compact" tv for our bedroom, but was thinking about 19" would be perfectly adequate..............
still, if you dont want it, I'm sure I can make use of it in my front room, as mine is a crt.......

I only have a 19" one

None here at all

We have 28" in the living room and 19" in the bedroom. Any bigger would be too big.

We have a 42" one downstairs normal CRT though! My Nan brought it for us 4 years ago as our 18" TV kept electrocuting me

We bought a 42" one a few years ago and I thought that was too big. DH OTOH thinks we should have gone bigger. I told him just to buy a 32" and tell everyone it was 42", after all, men are always adding on extra inches to things

* whispers I have a 60" on my wall in my living room*

* slopes off to watch the 32" in my bedroom*

Are you on benefits ? a 32incher is too small if you are

nice whispering there monkeyface

bloody hell.......I upgraded my phone at the weekend and got offered sweet FA!!! I'm obviously with the wrong network

I have just bought a 32" and think it's enormous. Compact? Blimey - if I put it on my kitchen wall you wouldn't be able to stand far enough away to see the picture

I had two old CRT tellies - I kept the portable one as I only like that size in the bedroom.

It's very odd though isn't it - on the one hand the manufacturers are trying to tell us that an ipad is perfectly large enough to watch films on, on the other, they want you to get a tv that's as big as most living room walls.

Most inconsistent

YANBU

It really depends on whether you want the room to be all about the TV, or for doing other things too.

bugger, it went bold! Not sure what I did there...must be the square eyes...

It's the new bolding feature monkeyface

i thought a 32" was adequate. But then i thought some more, and realised that a 37" would be better - 32" is a telly - 37" is Home Cinema!

i love big telly. wish we'd got the 42" though, it wouldn't have been too large.

imagines other MNers squinting at miniscule screens

My parents have a new 42" inch tv and I'm embarrassed to invite people round when I go to stay because I think it's terribly common.

Good for my dad's terrible eyesight though.

We have a 37" in the lounge, when we have finished our extension we will be moving it into our new bedroom and getting a 42" for downstairs.
[We do have quite a big lounge, so we need a big TV! ]

Ours is 40" but we have a reasonable sized living room to carry it off. I like it; I can read the writing on the screen now. It isn't wall mounted though.

I want a small TV for the bedroom but def nowhere as big as 32".

50 inch here, my husband works in the industry and got it with 70% off! It's awesome, and I could never go back to a smaller set, it's brilliant when watching films. I can see though if you have a small living room it would be overpowering.

We're not obsessed tho, no TV in bedroom and one other set which we never watch in the whole house.

For anyone who's interested, here's the upgrade deal - shite phone, whopping TV.

My parents are always complaining when they come over to babysit that our TV is too small. Nowt wrong with it at all - 16" I think (you do measure them diagonally across the screen, don't you?), and although probably 10 years old I reckon the picture is brilliant. Don't want our living room dominated by it, especially given how much of a telly addict DS is turning into.