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to think a 32" is really quite large enough?

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BettyButterknife · 07/07/2010 17:57

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??

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Lizzylou · 07/07/2010 19:33

Our living room is fairly large and we just bought a new flat screen 32" TV, I think it is very big!

Perhaps I am just easily pleased

mumofthreesweeties · 07/07/2010 19:39

Not on benefits, but have 50" in the living room and 42" in the bedroom. Both rooms are big enough to accommodate them.... No one has complained yet in our household, absolutely love them

UniS · 07/07/2010 19:44

still useing a 14 inch here. ONly TV, and its A CRT at that.

watsthestory · 07/07/2010 19:46

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BettyButterknife · 07/07/2010 19:54

Perhaps I am a total luddite - was still using little B&W portable from the 1970s in our bedroom until they turned off the analogue. Sigh...

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Lizzylou · 07/07/2010 19:56

Betty, our bedroom is v big (and I am v myopic) we still have a tiny portable TV with DVD combo and it is fine

RiaHere · 07/07/2010 19:58

TV's? Not at all what I was lurking for...

poppyknot · 07/07/2010 20:09

DH very pleased with the 32" CRT he got last year on Gumtree. Our old one (same size, make but different colour) broke down on a Friday night and we had to get one for Dr Who the next day.He was v pleased with the price and the guy threw in surround sound and a super woofer.

Went to MILs at the weekend and their new 37" looked way too big for the room. I still think that flat screens look very modern but then I grew up with a 19" b and w in the sitting room.

borderslass · 07/07/2010 20:13

Ours blew up in April whilst I was away at my sisters came back DH had bought a bloody 42" he even got rid of the packaging so that I couldn't take it back for a smaller one.

TheCoalitionNeedsYou · 07/07/2010 20:18

40" in the sitting room, 22" in the kitchen.

gonaenodaethat · 07/07/2010 20:23

I'll never understand how a TV can be common. As I've said before it wearing a shell suit?

The way you're all bragging about your teeny TVs on here you'd think that TV size was inversely proportional to IQ.

YANBU to think that 32' is big enough for you but YABU to think that it's big enough for everyone.

Lizzylou · 07/07/2010 20:27

I'm not bragging about my "teeny" TV, just happen to think 32" is fine.
I don't think bigger TV's are common, just not my taste and unnecessary really, at the end of the day it is a TV we are talking about!

Berlimey. Have what you like in your house, I do

ladysybil · 07/07/2010 20:31

i am old, and recall when a 24 inch was considered humungous

muminthecity · 07/07/2010 20:32

I went to buy a 32" tv a few weeks ago when our ancient smaller one blew up! However, the 42" was on sale and only worked out as about £40 more than the 32", so I went for that one instead.

gonaenodaethat · 07/07/2010 20:36

Och I know. You're right. I'm just in a bad mood. Most posts on here aren't like that.

It's just a bit of a bug bear of mine how some people use a small TV or worse, no TV, as some kind of badge of intelligence or middle class.

ivykaty44 · 07/07/2010 21:32

It really depends on whether you want the room to be all about the TV, or for doing other things too.** I suppose though it depends how big the room is and how many rooms in the house

EnglandAllenPoe · 07/07/2010 22:23

my folks have a 52" that makes a noise like the sounding of the last trump....

Dad can just about hear it and Mum can focus on it. it is in a very long room, we say that actually ours is bigger as you can sit closer to it...

a tv is a mjor source of entertainment - and should last a good few years. Worth investing a bob or two into to get a good one (though what constitutes todays standard is quickly surpassed...)

MrsC2010 · 07/07/2010 22:27

We have an old fashioned TV, not sure what size but I must admit I don't get the latest craze for huge great flat TVs that take over the room. I've always thought they are quite tacky , and we don't tend to watch it enough that we would notice enough difference in picture quality to justify buying one!

Snobear4000 · 07/07/2010 22:31

A really big telly is awesome. The best thing is it takes up space where a bookshelf would otherwise go, thus hiding the fact that I am not a "reader".

Telly in the kids room is also great cuz then you don't need to think of any activities for them.

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Chil1234 · 08/07/2010 07:11

TV size is a practical thing in my house. Fitted cupboards/shelves mean that anything bigger than 21" doesn't fit and there isn't a spare bit of wall big enough to take one of these flat screen whoppers. We go to the cinema quite a lot instead.

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Snobear4000 · 08/07/2010 09:34

Riven, I have an idea for you.

A neighbour of mine bought a telly so big I have no idea what size it is, very very big. They then found there was no room to install it what with the windows, fireplace and all.

Solution:

They removed the cast-iron and Victorian-tiled fireplace, boarded it up, plastered over it and plonked the telly in front of that. Now the room not only is great for watching action movies and the world cup on, it has a more modern look without all those flouncy antiques.

Looks MUCH better

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Chil1234 · 08/07/2010 09:43

The trouble with my flouncy antique (well 1930's) fireplace is that it's not just for decor - we actually use it to warm the living room up. So if we dispensed with it in favour of a whopper telly we'd have an excellent view from the sofa only 10' away but we'd have to be dressed in furs. A sort of Arctic IMAX effect ....