how many inches have you got?

[Beebo]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22942738
Sharp are selling a 90inch TV in Europe. Who needs a TV that big?
6% of TV's sold in the UK are larger than 50 inches. I work on an inverted snobbery basis, that the bigger your TV, the smaller your IQ.

So come on, how big is yours?

Mine is a modest 28 inch.

 

[Arch]

Mine's an old computer monitor hooked up to a Freeview box, so that's probably 12"...

 

[swansonj]

32. But in my defence:
(a) we got it 7 years ago and have had no inclination to change it yet, despite the colour and (particularly) the smoothness of rapid movements being well behind current standards
(b) it was the first ever new TV we bought, every previous set (I think a grand total of two in twenty years) was ex-rental, bought for a song
(c) I built a set of built-in shelves around it, so if we ever do replace it, we cannot go up in size even if we wanted.

 

[Shaun]

32" - the wife wouldn't let me get a bigger one, so I chose the most expensive 32" one I could find ...

 

[TVC]

32" any bigger and it would dominate the room.

I have a work colleague who buys a new TV every 18 months or so, not that he can afford it. Bizarre really, because mostly he watches Dave, so he's still seeing the same programme he watched 18 months before.
I think you're right on your inverted snobbery basis. It's an (almost) affordable status symbol for those with the lowest earning potential.

 

[Night Train]

My current TV, that I watch with Arch, is a 26". However, I do also have a 2" portable TV.

 

[4F]

32" plenty big enough

 

[Leodis]

42" max, any more and the picture quality would be pants. TV size – Too large, pixelation, Too small, loss of detail.

A good article

http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/Article/How-Far-Should-I-Sit.php

 

[threebikesmcginty]

32" here too, it's obviously the optimum size for snobbers, only common people would have a bigger telly.

 

[MrJamie]

I'm going to pick up my new 46" samsung in half an hour as it happens. A 40 would have been fine but the bigger screens aren't much more expensive now

 

[green1]

32" plenty big enough

That's barely bigger than my main monitor at work.

42" I wanted 46" be OH said it would be too big, she then started moaning a few months later that we should have bought a 46".

 

[pplpilot]

Ha! Ha! We were on about this the other day. We came up with an index. chav factor= screen size/dia of sat dish x number of subscription channels

 

[Archie_tect]

Could people please include their house number and postcodes... it's taking far too long to locate you all on Google maps.

 

[dodgy]

50" here, replaced a 43" that developed a fault. Mounted on a wall, cables hidden in plaster. It's bloody brilliant.

I'm surprised we haven't had the usual disproportionate representation of the "I don't have a TV, got rid of it 30 years ago" type on this thread yet. People who don't have TVs are like vegetarians, they can't wait to tell everyone else about how 'different' they are.

 

[MarkF]

32" Philips LCD, ample.

Think it cost about £1200 a fair few years ago, I suppose the equivalent today might be £200/300.