All sizes of screen have a place in the market.
The first Sony Bravia I bought had (and still has) a 26" screen, which sounded big enough to me until I had to slide the set back into the corner in order to avoid wasted space where a CRT used to protrude.
After a few months, I got a 40" unit for the living room, while the 26" screen was plenty big enough for the bedroom. I have considered buying a smaller unit again (prob s/h) to use for video editing.
I watch telly on a 14" laptop, in bed.
When I watch it at all...which is increasingly rarely. I've seen all the good old repeats, and all the new stuff is woke documentaries or woke 'soshul' drama. Or woke propaganda disguised as news.
Better stuff on you tube...
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Years ago, when I lived in Michigan, USA, we moved into a house on an estate built in 1947. We had a 19" TV set, the house behind us, distant by the length of two gardens, was occupied by a bunch of student doctors. We could stand in our hallway, looking at our TV, tuned to the same channel as the doctors' (always some sports channel), and the image on their set was actually larger to our eyes than the one on our set.
An unexpected feature of advanced years is an ability to enjoy re-watching/reading films or books already encountered.
Perhaps I'm a boring old fart after all.
Very handy for the *how to* stuff but otherwise I stay away from social media.
You tube is a massive repository of old films , TV series and radio plays and audio books. And quite up to date thrillers and documentaries. Plus some pretty good science and maths s*it. Basically its ten thousand channels of TV and in the end there is always
*something* worth watching or listening too.I watched a 1970 film featuring an incredibly young Michael Caine in it last night.
"Too late, the Hero".
Quite good.
Last time I tried to buy a 32" TV I found I couldn't. I had to buy a 32" monitor and supply the signals from other appliances.
Does it work OK? I only use my TV as a monitor, various boxes feed into my Yamaha AR Receiver which plays the sound and passes the video to the TV, a monitor would do the job as well.
How long ago was that? Loads currently at Richer Sounds and John Lewis.
The usual problem is that 32" is now a 'small' TV, intended for kitchens / kids' bedrooms and the like. That tends to mean they're mostly at the budget end of the scale - if you wanted a sooper-dooper-picture TV then you can't get it in 32". Checking JL they are mostly cheap 720p or 1080p TVs, with a couple of weird expensive touchscreen-onna-stick monitor things (with no explanation why you'd want one).
(Personally I think 4K is probably enough and all the new shininess is veering into Russ Andrews territory, but then I'm not particularly fussy)
Theo
There are 32" TVs but very nearly all of them are 'HD Ready' i.e. not HD as broadcast in the UK for nearly two decades. They seem to be modern 'smart' TVs, so I don't understand why they are still being made. Maybe a vast stock of 720p screens?
Added to the notion that you have to virtually sit on top of any but the largest screens to get the benefit:
Those figures are ludicrous, I am 9' from my 32" TV, I feel sea-sick if I get any closer.
I have recently been looking at replacing the 27" TV in the bedroom with one that has more HDMI inputs. 32" TVs are available.
There are several on this page:
More information here (including field of view), but essentially the same as the Panasonic webpage. We are about 12" (3.7m) from our 58" TV.
What I find interesting about the recommended viewing distances is that, in general, they require you to sit in the middle of the room! Or the TV will have to be in the middle of the room if you sit near the edge. I can't see that working for anyone, unless they watch their 60" TV in a spare single bedroom, when both the TV and seating can be by opposite walls.
And how many have higher resolution than 720p? The Beeb has transmitted
1080i for nearly two decades.
Well, if you tick the "Full HD" and 30 - 39" boxes on that page, you get
19 hits.
Really? When was that?
Nah. today HD ready barely exist.
You can get a full HD 32 incher for £127...
My local Morrisons has got a stack of 32" HD Ready TVs.
I'm sure 405 lines is good enough for anyone. Let's have none of this
625 line rubbish!P.S. I agree with you, but would probably set the bar just below 4K.
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