Not long ago...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8310496.stm

yes, 50 years ago.

my neighbours son has 42" in his bedroom...

"Jef Roe" wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8310496.stm

yes, 50 years ago.

my neighbours son has 42" in his bedroom...

You give him too much pocket money ;-).

Paul DS.

Jef Roe wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8310496.stm

yes, 50 years ago.

my neighbours son has 42" in his bedroom...



"It's not unusual for a home to have a 50in set these days, which
creates space issues as the average size of a UK living room has stayed
roughly the same.

"It means people have had to put them on walls, which I'm really not a
fan of," says Ms Hamilton. "

Well that maybe the view of Ms Hamilton, but I personally loved the idea
of getting a bigger screen and putting it on the wall to save space, I
now have a 40" LCD on the wall taking up no floor space (but I still
have a table with DVD/PVR/surround amp). My old 25" 4:3 Sony FST was
about 3 feet deep!

People have more space now not less, it was flat panels that allowed
screens to get bigger, and of course if you want to see HD you need a
huge screen, or sit very close to a smaller one.

Power consumption is another issue, and LCD is alot better than CRT for
the common sizes. They can do better though and it still improving, big
plasma's are a bit OTT. I can see the attraction of gaming on a big
screen, definitely more immersion.

Personally I wouldn't have a plasma, most I have seen are too hot and
noisy and are more likely to develop problems during their life than say
LCDs.

--
Tony

In message , Paul D.Smith
writes
"Jef Roe" wrote in message
...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8310496.stm

yes, 50 years ago.

my neighbours son has 42" in his bedroom...

You give him too much pocket money ;-).

Paul DS.

Why is he giving his neighbour's son pocket money?
:¬)
--
Ian

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:34:36 +0100, "Jef Roe" wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8310496.stm

yes, 50 years ago.

my neighbours son has 42" in his bedroom...

A couple of days ago I was using this 15" screen laptop on a table in my
sitting room. If I looked just to the left of it I could see the 26" TV.
Just outof interest I moved my head so that the bottom of the TV screen
was aligned with the bottom of the laptop screen. The top of the TV
screen was only halfway up the laptop screen. I then held a paperback
book at my normal reading distance aligning the bottom of it with the
bottom of the laptop screen. The top of the laptop screen came only just
over halfway up the book.

So to get a TV, at that distance, to occupy the same amount of visual
space as a paperback book I need a 104" TV!

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

"Jef Roe" wrote in message
...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8310496.stm

yes, 50 years ago.

my neighbours son has 42" in his bedroom...

Lucky boy.

Roger R

On Oct 21, 9:58*am, Tony wrote:
Jef Roe wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8310496.stm

yes, 50 years ago.

my neighbours son has 42" in his bedroom...

"It's not unusual for a home to have a 50in set these days, which
creates space issues as the average size of a UK living room has stayed
roughly the same.

"It means people have had to put them on walls, which I'm really not a
fan of," says Ms Hamilton. "

Well that maybe the view of Ms Hamilton, but I personally loved the idea
of getting a bigger screen and putting it on the wall to save space, I
now have a 40" LCD on the wall taking up no floor space (but I still
have a table with DVD/PVR/surround amp). *My old 25" 4:3 Sony FST was
about 3 feet deep!

People have more space now not less, it was flat panels that allowed
screens to get bigger, and of course if you want to see HD you need a
huge screen, or sit very close to a smaller one.

Power consumption is another issue, and LCD is alot better than CRT for
the common sizes. *They can do better though and it still improving, big
plasma's are a bit OTT. *I can see the attraction of gaming on a big
screen, definitely more immersion.

Personally I wouldn't have a plasma, most I have seen are too hot and
noisy and are more likely to develop problems during their life than say
LCDs.

I bought a Plasma because it gave a better picture quality for the
money than any LCD I could find. It makes no noise apart from when I
turn the volume up and then I can hear whats on the channel/source
being viewed. If my £600 boax last half as long as my 32" CRT that
cost me £1200 quid then I won't be unhappy.

"Jef Roe" wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8310496.stm

yes, 50 years ago.

my neighbours son has 42" in his bedroom...


....Or could it be that the Beeb might be inclined to encourage downsizing as
a means to disguise the fact that their HD service now looks crappy on the
size of screens that were designed to show it off to it's best advantage?

Chas