[norliss]

An article which I'm sure most here will find amusing:

BBC NEWS | Magazine | Are televisions getting too big?

[Badger0-0]

Shows what these designers know.
To me a living room isn't just there to look nice, it's to live in, so the priorities are comfort and mod cons, imo and not cocktail parties

Of course this involves a nice big telly for that HC feel

Given growth of 17%, I'd say that designer's view is really patronising and actually out of touch, imo.

[dovercat]

Poor people watch more TV than rich people. For poor people a large TV is a status symbol and a means of escaping their lives, they also have small living rooms. Rich people go out and enjoy their lives more, golf, horse riding, theater, etc... They also have large living rooms which make the TV relatively smaller or can be tucked away, or have a dedicated home cinema room if they are a movie buff. So large TVs are vulgar: lacking in cultivation, breeding, or taste, coase, ostentatious, pretentious. Because poor people have them. If they were so expensive only the rich could buy them flat panels would be design icons.

Personally I have a picture above my fireplace and a tv tucked in the corner. Do people get bad necks looking up at a tv over the fireplace.

[Badger0-0]

I nearly took the right hump when I first saw that, but I see what you're getting at

So large TVs are vulgar: lacking in cultivation, breeding, or taste, coase, ostentatious, pretentious. Because poor people have them.

Sounds like me all over

I'm not sure I'm particularly poor though.

[mike7]

I must say I have some measure of agreement with the original article. There is obviously an optimum size of screen for each individual room. Going bigger and bigger all the time is not going to improve the viewing experience. Whether you have a 32" of a 50" screen it is still a maximum of 1080 lines in definition. One day there may be much higher definition screens, but until then you are becoming more and more aware of the blocks and artifacts that make up the picture, especially if your viewing is mainly SD Freeview. I'm guessing the many compalints about picture quality in the Forum are from people using oversize screens in modest size living rooms.

The practice of putting a TV set over the fireplace is plainly ridiculous in many instances. This all goes back to the 'Tomorrows World' which predicted that there will be television sets you could 'hang on the wall like a picture'. I've seen families craning their necks to look up at the screen. That can't be very comfortable in the long run. And then there are all the wires dangling beneath..yeuk!

Where the article falls down is in the power consumption aspect. It is true that many plasma screens are power hungry, but the newer LED illuminated LCD screens are much more enviromentally friendly and consume less.

At the end of the day its just the 'telly'. In spite of all the channels available most of the programmes are mediocre stuff, game show trivia, talent shows that thrive on ridiculing contestants, third rate movies that never made it to the cinema and endless repeats. I enjoy TV and wouldn't want to be without it, but I similarly would not want to build my room, and my life, around the thing.

[Badger0-0]

Originally Posted by mike7

I must say I have some measure of agreement with the original article. There is obviously an optimum size of screen for each individual room. Going bigger and bigger all the time is not going to improve the viewing experience. Whether you have a 32" of a 50" screen it is still a maximum of 1080 lines in definition. One day there may be much higher definition screens, but until then you are becoming more and more aware of the blocks and artifacts that make up the picture, especially if your viewing is mainly SD Freeview. I'm guessing the many compalints about picture quality in the Forum are from people using oversize screens in modest size living rooms.

The practice of putting a TV set over the fireplace is plainly ridiculous in many instances. This all goes back to the 'Tomorrows World' which predicted that there will be television sets you could 'hang on the wall like a picture'. I've seen families craning their necks to look up at the screen. That can't be very comfortable in the long run. And then there are all the wires dangling beneath..yeuk!

Where the article falls down is in the power consumption aspect. It is true that many plasma screens are power hungry, but the newer LED illuminated LCD screens are much more enviromentally friendly and consume less.

At the end of the day its just the 'telly'. In spite of all the channels available most of the programmes are mediocre stuff, game show trivia, talent shows that thrive on ridiculing contestants, third rate movies that never made it to the cinema and endless repeats. I enjoy TV and wouldn't want to be without it, but I similarly would not want to build my room, and my life, around the thing.

It depends on the source I think.
I do agree that freeview on LCDs can be pretty poor, but even a modest room can accomodate a large screen, imo.
I watch a 50" at 12 ft for example and would happily go to a 60" and indeed will in the future. Fwiw, I don't watch much TV. Don't get me wrong, it's often on, but it's mostly the missus watching it (often at 3 ft, go figure).
If I want to watch a film though, I just like to relax with a nice cinematic experience and I personally don't give a stuff what anyone else thinks about what I do in my own living room.

I suppose it all comes down to looks and here I would agree, I think a telly stuck above a fireplace looks daft. And yes, it's not comfortable to look at, imo.
Which is why mine is in the corner.
That said, none of my kit is co-ordinated, it's a total mish-mash based on performance

But no, I certainly didn't build the room around the telly.
A distant family member visited for the first time and commented how the room looked like a Dixons store though

[mike7]

A distant family member visited for the first time and commented how the room looked like a Dixons store though
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The main difference being that there was somebody there who knew what they were talking about

[Joe Fernand]

Maybe someone should suggest Ms Hamilton and Giles Kime takes a look at what AVForums members get up to if they don't have the vision to work out a suitable solution to people wanting a big screen TV.

Members' Home Cinema Gallery - AVForums.com

I agree they can and do look odd if they are simply drop shipped into a room without any thought for the room layout or decor.

Then again not everyone has the same priorities - I guess that's why 'interior design' is still a bit of a niche market!

Joe

PS Isn't this luverly from Mr Kime's publication </title> <link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> <meta name="description" content="Inspirational homes, gardens, shopping and decorating ideas from Homes & Gardens magazine" /> <met

This one could have taken a 100" Pana PDP instead of that stupid mirror - http://www.homesandgardens.com/galle...2_itemId=2620&

[Badger0-0]

Originally Posted by mike7

A distant family member visited for the first time and commented how the room looked like a Dixons store though
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The main difference being that there was somebody there who knew what they were talking about

[j0hn]

Originally Posted by Joe Fernand

Maybe someone should suggest Ms Hamilton and Giles Kime takes a look at what AVForums members get up to if they don't have the vision to work out a suitable solution to people wanting a big screen TV.

Members' Home Cinema Gallery - AVForums.com

I agree they can and do look odd if they are simply drop shipped into a room without any thought for the room layout or decor.

Then again not everyone has the same priorities - I guess that's why 'interior design' is still a bit of a niche market!

Joe

PS Isn't this luverly from Mr Kime's publication </title> <link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> <meta name="description" content="Inspirational homes, gardens, shopping and decorating ideas from Homes & Gardens magazine" /> <met

This one could have taken a 100" Pana PDP instead of that stupid mirror - </title> <link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> <meta name="description" content="Inspirational homes, gardens, shopping and decorating ideas from Homes & Gardens magazine" /> <met

Thats a really good post. Obviously avforums members have way more talent than the twits from the article

I have our tv above the fireplace, till I get a bigger one. I dont feel neck ache at all. If it was a problem I'd get neck ache talking to taller people in real life wouldnt I

Big tvs are great, you can always put some art into it and have it change. Now how cool is that mr and mrs designer! not one silly mirror that never changes but Van Goch, Page 3, A sunset, all those lovely things in life ever changing in a huge frame.

Get with it and move into the new century is my advice

[Badger0-0]

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[j0hn]

Originally Posted by Badger0-0

[nizzywizzy]

I have the same problem, I like a big TV but its too big or the corner. If I put it above the fireplace then my daughter cant play her Wii games. huh, i have to settle for a smaller screen.