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10-23-2012, 03:32 AM
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Just bought my first house....TV too small!
 What size TV should I go for? Current in photo is a 32" I really want a DLP, but nobody even sells those suckers anymore and I don't want a used one of CL... Found the paint combo online and replicated it...came out very good thanks to the girlfriend 
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10-23-2012, 07:26 AM
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10-23-2012, 07:28 AM
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55" for that space. Anything smaller and it will look TOO small. However, if you get two book shelves, place one on each side, and mount the television on the wall, it would look much better.
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10-23-2012, 08:42 AM
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10-23-2012, 08:48 AM
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I have the same size/type of cabinet as you and my TV is a 47". Viewing distance is about 10'.
Best affordable technology today is full array LED back lit LCD. Second best would be edge lit LED/LCD. Don't let a salesman tell you anything is a "LED" TV, it's just the back light. There's the whole LCD/plasma debate. Both work fine, different technology, different price point, tomato, tomahto... Something just occurred to me as well: I used to have a home theater set up in a similar space to this. I had a small TV like you have there for the day to day programs, news, etc... then, above that I had the screen and projector for movies and sports or whatever. You can get a pretty good projector these days for about what you'd pay for a decent 47+ inch TV. Just keep in mind that you have to be able to control the light in the room pretty well.
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10-23-2012, 08:57 AM
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Plasmas used to have a huge speed advantage, but that is going away. (useful for video gaming, among other things) Watch the weather channel a lot? Don't get a plasma, you can have screen burn-in.
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10-23-2012, 09:05 AM
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10-23-2012, 10:26 AM
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Never heard a guy come back to the store saying "the screen is too big . . "
As an aside, we saw the Sony 84" 4K panel at their showroom in NYC. For $25K, the picture is great, but for most content and viewing distances (greater than 10') those extra lines aren't going to make a difference. Or . . . forget the wall . . . get a coffee table instead
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10-23-2012, 10:42 AM
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10-23-2012, 10:47 AM
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We had two 19" B&W televisions...one with no picture, and the other with no sound. Both stacked on top of each other.
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10-23-2012, 11:31 AM
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Someone had to do this... congrats on the new purchase!
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10-23-2012, 11:44 AM
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"A thousand channels and nothing is on"
I don't even HAVE one.
I read books. LOTS of 'em. There's a classic scene in a Woody Allen movie, perhaps it was Annie Hall. Woody leaves NY and comes to LA where he becomes, after a time, a successful Hollywood screenwriter; and he invites his best friend to Los Angeles to visit for the first time.. Woody is driving him around in this huge '76 El Dorado convertible in Beverly Hills, and can barely maneuver it (in NYC, "cars" are those yellow things with numbers on top) ..He backs it up into garbage cans and so on. and his friend exclaims: "Wow, I can't buhlieve this!!! It's so clean here in LA!!! In New York we have garbage 12 stories high! (This was when the famous mid '70s NY garbage strike was going on). What do you guys in LA do with all your GARBAGE?" And Woody looks over at him, and deadpans: "Oh, we put it all on TV."
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