Potatoe Farmer
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Hi All, help please, i currently sit aprox 2.5 meters away from a 49'' average quality set. My 2 year old smashed the screen on my previous set up about a year ago which was an old but loved set up. I replaced with a £500 Panasonic LED.
I'm hoping to buy a new house which I should complete on in early June.
Im planning on treating myself to a new tv, and using our current lounge tv in the childrens play room. Currently, we only have one tv in the house. Lounge tv will be used for Sky HD, Netflix etc, occasional bluray (although rare these days with downloading and Netflix etc), and occasional Nintendo Switch gaming, maybe other consoles in the future. Wife sensibly wont let me introduce my young sons into gaming just yet... only 3 and 5.
I'm lucky that the new house has a generous lounge, but I'm sure my current tv will seem silly small. What size tv should i go for? 65''? 75''? Images below of the room and plan layout, but i will be sitting around 5 meters from the tv. The only other way of using the room would be to put the tv in front of the window to the left of the fire place, but the couch would then block the access into that part of the room, see the plan. Also a window behind the tv could be a bit irritating, and my wife would likely always want the curtain open as that window shows the access to the property etc.
I dont mind at all getting a last years model, i'm tempted by OLED. But with house purchase, and stretching myself, i will be tight on funds so probably an absolute max of £2k to 3k... so prob can't afford OLED in a large size set... Any brand really, but ideally well reviewed. Slightly concerned about saying a huge screen to my wife, but I'm paying so my choice!
I will post pics etc, I did post pics here of my previous set up some 9 years ago or something in a previous home, before I now had several young children and work consuming my time. Thanks in advance for any advice or recommendations. I will probably place on a new stand. Maybe in the future wall hang and put media equipment in the room behind out of the way. would be straight forward to do that. But i wont be able to spend much money on home improvements for a couple years anyway.
I'm hoping to buy a new house which I should complete on in early June.
Im planning on treating myself to a new tv, and using our current lounge tv in the childrens play room. Currently, we only have one tv in the house. Lounge tv will be used for Sky HD, Netflix etc, occasional bluray (although rare these days with downloading and Netflix etc), and occasional Nintendo Switch gaming, maybe other consoles in the future. Wife sensibly wont let me introduce my young sons into gaming just yet... only 3 and 5.
I'm lucky that the new house has a generous lounge, but I'm sure my current tv will seem silly small. What size tv should i go for? 65''? 75''? Images below of the room and plan layout, but i will be sitting around 5 meters from the tv. The only other way of using the room would be to put the tv in front of the window to the left of the fire place, but the couch would then block the access into that part of the room, see the plan. Also a window behind the tv could be a bit irritating, and my wife would likely always want the curtain open as that window shows the access to the property etc.
I dont mind at all getting a last years model, i'm tempted by OLED. But with house purchase, and stretching myself, i will be tight on funds so probably an absolute max of £2k to 3k... so prob can't afford OLED in a large size set... Any brand really, but ideally well reviewed. Slightly concerned about saying a huge screen to my wife, but I'm paying so my choice!
I will post pics etc, I did post pics here of my previous set up some 9 years ago or something in a previous home, before I now had several young children and work consuming my time. Thanks in advance for any advice or recommendations. I will probably place on a new stand. Maybe in the future wall hang and put media equipment in the room behind out of the way. would be straight forward to do that. But i wont be able to spend much money on home improvements for a couple years anyway.
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