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how big is your TV? why? does it matter?

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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 03:28 PM
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Now I've got a 31" - but I had a smaller one before.
The last one died during a thunderstorm that took out a lot of my equipment. I was so busy that I didn't notice for several weeks. Trying to watch something the TV was dead. I thought that since I really don't watch TV too often I'd jst shop artound, and when a friend of mine replaced his TV with a 50something " LCD I got his old one for free.

Over here there aren't too many broadcasts in HD, so I won't bother for quite some time.

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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 03:31 PM
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I have a 32'' Westinghouse LCD HD TV. I thought it was huge when I got it a year ago. For what I paid for it then, I could get one twice as big now!

These new TV technologies are amazing. I can't justify the upgrade now, but I see a 50''+ 1080p TV in my future!
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 03:32 PM
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Went form a 35" Sony old style tube to 55inch Sony lcd Man!! what a difference!!
Now the 35" is in the bedroom. That thing weighs a ton.
The 55" maybe 75lbs
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 03:33 PM
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I got a 73" mitsubishi dlp full 1080p hdtv it is awsome it is like your in a movie theatre and playing my ps3 it is like i am in the game.
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 04:18 PM
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65" Mitsubishi. My downstairs has one of those great rooms (no walls between kitchen, dining and family room) so anything much smaller is too small.
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted by jbjarko
Our "great" room is basically one giant room(about 35x30) with the kitchen, dining area and living room. So we can be in the kitchen and watch tv, it is nice to be able to actually see it.
same here, but the TV is on the wall the kitchen is against, so you can't see it. it's annoying, because the wife does watch TV (she likes it)

and I never care (only shows i watch have Gears or Gunpowder)

Originally Posted by ptgarcia
65" Mitsubishi. My downstairs has one of those great rooms (no walls between kitchen, dining and family room) so anything much smaller is too small.
just thinking...if i got a wall mount, and put it over the fireplace, you could see it from the kitchen (opposite end of the room)

how many people have them over gas log fireplaces?
my little gas logs put out some HEAT, but we only use them for an hour or so at a time.

wonder how a ~50 inch LCD would do over a fireplace?
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 04:26 PM
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63" Samsung Plasma monitor, why, movies, nature shows, and sports.
no it does'nt matter but, always get the best you can afford we only go around once.
IMO, currently (you know your asking because Christmas is around the corner) I would be looking at the Pioneer Elite series I wanted one of these when I bought the Sammy but they did'nt have a 50+, now with the prices of plasma so low I would'nt pass one up and the PE plasma 60" would be my 1st choice.

04ctd, it would look perfect though I don't think it would fair with the extra heat rising to kill it.
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 04:34 PM
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Plain old RCA 32" non HD.

We're to be dragged kicking and screaming to HD in another couple years.

If it still works I'll use it with a VCR in another room i guess.
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 04:34 PM
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52" DLP... Expensive to buy expensive to maintain... Kinda sounds like our trucks huh?

Looking at my 27" View Sonic right now and it would work just fine... But I 'HAD' to get the 52...

darnit could have been Helix II...
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by hillbillymudrun
I got a 73" mitsubishi dlp full 1080p hdtv it is awsome it is like your in a movie theatre and playing my ps3 it is like i am in the game.

Have one of those in the parents living room... sitting 20ft back you have to turn your head to see each side of the screen!!
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 04:48 PM
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I did a small move for a guy leaving the country. He was selling some stuff and among that stuff was a sweet Sony 65" wide screen HD projection TV. This screen is not measured diagonally like a regular TV. It is truly 65" long from side to side. It was almost new and I got it for half what a new one costs plus he threw in a Sony Dream Surround system. It's big but man when there is HD programming on it is awesome!!!
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 05:05 PM
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So size does matter after all?
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 05:08 PM
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13 B&W with rabbit ears and tin foil.

OKAY 27 toshiba but still old and out dated.
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 05:12 PM
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My old 17" computer monitor works great for tv. Oh I have an old 13" color in the garage.

My main computer runs a 19" CRT. Old and cheap. The monitors were free too!

Who needs a big tv anyways?

Have a good one.
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 05:38 PM
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I have a 27" Tube TV that I bought from he local Best Western for $40 when they upgraded to LCD's

I also get like 4 or 5 channels off of my Antennae.

I don't want to put out money for somthing to sit their, waste my time and be completly unproductive. I think their is less tempatation this way.

I don't want to spend my down time watching TV.
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