to think a 32" is really quite large enough?

[BettyButterknife]

Just been offered a free gift with a mobile phone upgrade - it's this Sony TV worth £400

Thing is, everywhere I look online it's being marketed as a second 'compact' TV for kitchen/bedroom. It's a 32" screen!

I don't get it. Has the world gone mad? Surely it's big enough by anyone's standards? Or am I the only person in the universe not to have a flipping massive wall-mounted flat-screen in their living room??

[Lauriefairycake]

yep, loads of people have humungous tv's - I bought the one you linked to 6 months ago when we upgraded the old crt one - and I deliberately went for a 32" as it was plenty big enough for our house

[faddle]

wtf? I have a 32" in the sitting room, its quite large enough. I have been looking for a second "compact" tv for our bedroom, but was thinking about 19" would be perfectly adequate..............
still, if you dont want it, I'm sure I can make use of it in my front room, as mine is a crt.......

[FreakoidOrganisoid]

I only have a 19" one

[ivykaty44]

None here at all

[MissMarjoribanks]

We have 28" in the living room and 19" in the bedroom. Any bigger would be too big.

[AndreaisSlowlyLosingIt]

We have a 42" one downstairs normal CRT though! My Nan brought it for us 4 years ago as our 18" TV kept electrocuting me

[5inthebed]

We bought a 42" one a few years ago and I thought that was too big. DH OTOH thinks we should have gone bigger. I told him just to buy a 32" and tell everyone it was 42", after all, men are always adding on extra inches to things

[monkeyfacegrace]

* whispers I have a 60" on my wall in my living room

slopes off to watch the 32" in my bedroom*

[usualsuspect]

Are you on benefits ? a 32incher is too small if you are

[ImSoNotTelling]

nice whispering there monkeyface

[diamondsandtiaras]

bloody hell.......I upgraded my phone at the weekend and got offered sweet FA!!! I'm obviously with the wrong network

[LadyBiscuit]

I have just bought a 32" and think it's enormous. Compact? Blimey - if I put it on my kitchen wall you wouldn't be able to stand far enough away to see the picture

I had two old CRT tellies - I kept the portable one as I only like that size in the bedroom.

It's very odd though isn't it - on the one hand the manufacturers are trying to tell us that an ipad is perfectly large enough to watch films on, on the other, they want you to get a tv that's as big as most living room walls.

Most inconsistent

[minipie]

YANBU

It really depends on whether you want the room to be all about the TV, or for doing other things too.

[monkeyfacegrace]

bugger, it went bold! Not sure what I did there...must be the square eyes...

[LadyBiscuit]

It's the new bolding feature monkeyface

[EnglandAllenPoe]

i thought a 32" was adequate. But then i thought some more, and realised that a 37" would be better - 32" is a telly - 37" is Home Cinema!

i love big telly. wish we'd got the 42" though, it wouldn't have been too large.

imagines other MNers squinting at miniscule screens

[flibbertigibbert]

My parents have a new 42" inch tv and I'm embarrassed to invite people round when I go to stay because I think it's terribly common.

Good for my dad's terrible eyesight though.

[izzybiz]

We have a 37" in the lounge, when we have finished our extension we will be moving it into our new bedroom and getting a 42" for downstairs.
[We do have quite a big lounge, so we need a big TV! ]

[Hulababy]

Ours is 40" but we have a reasonable sized living room to carry it off. I like it; I can read the writing on the screen now. It isn't wall mounted though.

I want a small TV for the bedroom but def nowhere as big as 32".

[auburnlizzy78]

50 inch here, my husband works in the industry and got it with 70% off! It's awesome, and I could never go back to a smaller set, it's brilliant when watching films. I can see though if you have a small living room it would be overpowering.

We're not obsessed tho, no TV in bedroom and one other set which we never watch in the whole house.

[BettyButterknife]

For anyone who's interested, here's the upgrade deal - shite phone, whopping TV.

My parents are always complaining when they come over to babysit that our TV is too small. Nowt wrong with it at all - 16" I think (you do measure them diagonally across the screen, don't you?), and although probably 10 years old I reckon the picture is brilliant. Don't want our living room dominated by it, especially given how much of a telly addict DS is turning into.