I did have a 32" Panasonic and replaced it with a 42" Panasonic, the 32" I have moved to the bedroom. The bigger the screen the more it requires HD to get a decent picture. Nearly everything I watch these days is available in HD.
I read somewhere later, that you should look for the size that seems right and then buy the next size up.
I've just got a LG 42" 4k UHD, and it's brilliant. 4k will be a bit thin on the ground for some time to come but the HD picture is stunning, as with all things it's relative to what I had before, but then I'm easily pleased.
I'm looking forward to getting a 55" with 4k (probably a Samsung) when Steam boxes are released at the end of the year. There should be a couple of models that will support gaming in 4k.
I really struggle to warrant buying an HD TV. If you had told me about them years ago I would have been really excited at the prospect - I was one of the first in the country to get a DVD player.
But now they are here I am completely underwhelmed by not only the sets but much of the HD content and so am using a CRT set – which is a shame in a way as I used to love new tech. The sorts of things I would love to see in HD are just not there. I have browsed the Blu-Ray rack, looked at online streaming and all of it leaves me not very enthusiastic. But enough people do like it to make it a thriving industry and it can't be expected to satisfy everybody can it?
This sort of thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsgMCqZ6Ebs (my upload which I have on VHS - classical music duet) is what I would like to see on sparkling HD quality but such content is just not there. In fact most of what I watch is not even on DVD yet! Plus most 'HD' is flaky quality with visible compression artefacts, posterisation and block noise.
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Yeah that's the one, saw it in my local Apollo 2000 store, picture quality looked amazing
We had a 42" hitachi, but changed to a 46" Sammy - which is actually smaller than the hitachi, because of the narrowness of the screen surround.
Sorry about that, the poll should have read 40" to 49", so please vote using the 40" to 45" option.
This should be corrected shortly.
You'll soon get used to it and want bigger.
A current 32 is pretty well a portable, and far too small for decent HD viewing in an average size room.
Pretty well bedroom sets now 32's
40 inch is a very common size, perhaps the most common, so do you tick 35-40 or 40-49. There are an increasing number of sloppy polls like this on DS.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/whitepaper287
I read somewhere later, that you should look for the size that seems right and then buy the next size up.
I've just got a LG 42" 4k UHD, and it's brilliant. 4k will be a bit thin on the ground for some time to come but the HD picture is stunning, as with all things it's relative to what I had before, but then I'm easily pleased.
Did you get free binoculars with that?
That was a normal size living room TV in my day.
The olden days.
But now they are here I am completely underwhelmed by not only the sets but much of the HD content and so am using a CRT set – which is a shame in a way as I used to love new tech. The sorts of things I would love to see in HD are just not there. I have browsed the Blu-Ray rack, looked at online streaming and all of it leaves me not very enthusiastic. But enough people do like it to make it a thriving industry and it can't be expected to satisfy everybody can it?
This sort of thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsgMCqZ6Ebs (my upload which I have on VHS - classical music duet) is what I would like to see on sparkling HD quality but such content is just not there. In fact most of what I watch is not even on DVD yet! Plus most 'HD' is flaky quality with visible compression artefacts, posterisation and block noise.
42 Inch 3D Blaupunkt in the bedroom
I currently download 4k content from YouTube
This is an example of what is available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0DSvJwLe8s