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??

chil - but that would be so much better for the enviroment think of the savings of fuel for each winter - you'd be quids in

That would seem tiny to me! But then I've got a 60".

Our TV is deeper than it is wide.

Wish it would hurry up and die so we can get a great big fuck-off flat screen.

Don't worry Chil, I actually have a tiny old telly and two fireplaces. However, Arctic IMAX would be great for watching Ice Age or Happy Feet on.

Our tv is 40 inches. It is a nice one. Not on the wall, because then it would either look weird hanging there or be at the wrong height for watching.

My DH is tech nerd. we have 52 in the living room, 32 in the bedroom and the computer monitor is 26. (to be fair he does use the computer for some CAD thingy and likes to have it big.) I don't get the appeal. To me the only difference is more dust. He also obsessed with HD everything has to be in H fecking D. Sometimes to piss him off i will hook through the cupboard and find the DVD of a film i want to see instead of the Blu-Ray. I really can't be annoyed with the difference. He was like a spoilt child when i accidentally recorded the "normal" version of Dr Who and not HD. I miss my wee portable i had in my bedroom when i was growing up. It was 18 inches or something and fecking massive but i loved it.

I'm going to mout the 40" on the wall in the alcove next to the fire place at about the same height it is anyway so that we can get rid of the stand thing and reclaim the space.

Zacharyquack I have a 32" CRT - that we got for £15 at a car boot sale when our other (also CRT) tv died - It is ugly and plastered with masking tape due to fiddling little fingers but it won't die so we won't be joining the flatscreen revolution for a while yet.

We will probably get a few extra inches when we do but not much.

Can you still use the fire if the TV is above it? We use our woodburner all winter from around Sept onwards (when it gets cold obviously!) and can't imagine it would do the TV any good. I think it depends on the room, you have to be a certain distance from the TV for your eyes don't you, I would imagine with a big TV this distance changes.

A TV above a fire will be too high up and will hurt your neck. You want the top of the TV at roughly eye level from where you normally sit.