So...what's everyone's TV size? What was it before that? Are you happy with it? Pros/cons?
I had a 25-inch square tube TV (you know, the kind with a big footprint) for something like eight years. I bought it for $200-250 way back in, like, 2001 or 2002, and it was fine, and I got a ton of use out of it. But a couple years back, after just getting married, my wife and I took the plunge and decided it was time to buy a Blu-ray player and a TV worth playing Blu-rays on. I didn't go too nuts trying to find a deal; I wanted a well-reviewed TV from a major brand if at all possible, even if it meant paying a bit more. And I found one that was the same price at our local Best Buy as it is on Amazon. It's a 42-inch Samsung widescreen.
We really love it; works as well as it did the day we got it two years ago, and it has lots of nice little features, like turning itself on and/or switching inputs when you put a disc in. And it has USB ports on the side, so I can play random videos. The software to do this is predictable sub-par, but not half as bad as they can sometimes be.
In terms of picture, I'm pretty surprised at how quickly HD became a necessity when watching TV. I don't get a whole lot more out of Blu-ray than I do DVD, even on the larger TV, but the difference between regular channels and HD ones is huge. Now I understand why we see all those competing ads talking about who has more HD channels: it's a big deal.
I'm guessing we'll have almost no one who thinks the TV they got was too big. I was a little worried about that when Courtney and I bought ours a couple of years ago, partially because it was going in a moderately sized bedroom, but now it seems like it would've been pretty difficult to get something too big. We would've had to go 50+ before it started to look really silly.
So, how about everyone else?
I had a 25-inch square tube TV (you know, the kind with a big footprint) for something like eight years. I bought it for $200-250 way back in, like, 2001 or 2002, and it was fine, and I got a ton of use out of it. But a couple years back, after just getting married, my wife and I took the plunge and decided it was time to buy a Blu-ray player and a TV worth playing Blu-rays on. I didn't go too nuts trying to find a deal; I wanted a well-reviewed TV from a major brand if at all possible, even if it meant paying a bit more. And I found one that was the same price at our local Best Buy as it is on Amazon. It's a 42-inch Samsung widescreen.
We really love it; works as well as it did the day we got it two years ago, and it has lots of nice little features, like turning itself on and/or switching inputs when you put a disc in. And it has USB ports on the side, so I can play random videos. The software to do this is predictable sub-par, but not half as bad as they can sometimes be.
In terms of picture, I'm pretty surprised at how quickly HD became a necessity when watching TV. I don't get a whole lot more out of Blu-ray than I do DVD, even on the larger TV, but the difference between regular channels and HD ones is huge. Now I understand why we see all those competing ads talking about who has more HD channels: it's a big deal.
I'm guessing we'll have almost no one who thinks the TV they got was too big. I was a little worried about that when Courtney and I bought ours a couple of years ago, partially because it was going in a moderately sized bedroom, but now it seems like it would've been pretty difficult to get something too big. We would've had to go 50+ before it started to look really silly.
So, how about everyone else?