Are tellys like penises?

Are telly's like penises?

I wish I had a 9" penis instead of this massive thing.

our big telly is a 55" in our lounge... TBH it looks pretty small in teh corner, and we could definitely fit in a 75" with ease... Will I though... unlikely... It's a good telly (8k, 120hz refresh for gaming)..

Thing is, as TV resolution adn broadcast resolution improves, you CAN sit closer/have a bigger TV than in the 'olden days'!

DrP

There is a house on my evening dog walk that has a screen that literally covers their wall has to be 100inches+ on the diagonal.

They don't pull the curtains so it lights the street up nicely and probably confuses the planes coming into land at East Mids...

We have a 55in downstairs and 49in upstairs in the "gaming room" (it's the box room).  Like others have said I would go for a 65 next time.

You can be too close to a big TV, less than a metre and a half away from the 49er and I find that you miss stuff in the corners of the screen.

I don't know why folk don't just save money and buy smaller tellys but sit nearer. 🤔

I don’t know why folk don’t just save money and buy smaller tellys but sit nearer.

Cos my lounge would look reet odd with the sofas right up near the telly, and tonnes of space behind them!

Or do you mean we sit on cushions on the floor, cross legged like pre-schoolers??!!

DrP

I must admit the England footy match looked pretty amazing in Ultra HD on iplayer on a 65" screen

funnily enough I can see my neighbour's just got a new telly. It's ****ing enormous.

I can see from my office (spare room) across my back garden, across his back garden (admittedly we're in terraced houses and the back gardens are quite small), and into his spare room. It was in demo mode and I could clearly read that it's a 55" Sony, but the rest of it was in Polish. He's watching the footy now. I can see the action but I can't quite read the scores.

Think ours is 47” some Toshiba thing from about ten or eleven years ago. Does the job fine but those Philips ambilight TV’s sure are pretty. Also pretty expensive and energy hungry. Spend more time watching stuff on a tablet these days too.

I don’t know why folk don’t just save money and buy smaller tellys but sit nearer

Picture quality looks poorer. Worse if you play a lot of video games. I used to play a lot and no matter how large the TV you always end up sitting about three inches from the screen

42" here but going to 65", maybe even 75"

I've done over the entire room and moving away from settee on one wall. Fireplace in middle, chair here, window there, TV in corner.

Now its settee in one corner at an angle, my recliner nearly in the center position of the room facing one wall and that wall will have the TV on it. As above, walls are there, theyre large and mostly bare. So nice to make use of them and 65/75/85 why the hell not. You only live the once. Plus with many streaming channels with big budget movies and programs cinemas are pretty much a thing of the past and the future is home cinema systems they need that big screen.

Besides, my tv is also my pc monitor and i'll be sitting 10' from it. Sod squinting.

Does the job fine but those Philips ambilight TV’s sure are pretty. Also pretty expensive and energy hungry.

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As in its good to have one and fine to enjoy it but please don’t wave it around in public?

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I'm now worried about the conversation I had with the SIL!  BIL just ordered 65".

"Its huge, I've no idea where he wants to put it, there's no way I'll be able to fit it, but he'd like you to pop over and see if you can help."

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Not so well endowed here...a measly 32" TV in our house. Just the one. Can't imagine us fitting a bigger one in even if we wanted one.

I was watching the Tour in the summer at my daughter's and she has a mahoosive TV, not sure the actual size, but so big it was hard to watch the riding and follow the stats in the 3 corners of the screen 🤣

Next up: are houses like penises?

I've never measured mine but no one has ever complained properly, just the occasional moan

Not sure I want to ask a serious question as it may stop the puns cumming...

Anyway, I'm not a gamer and the only sport I watch is F1 plus some of the big bike races (TDF etc). So
(a) is 120hz really needed?
(b) And if I'm not a gamer, do I need one (or more) HDMI 2.1 inputs, as I'm not sure what the benefit of HDMI 2.1 is....?

42" 10 year old Samsung with a great picture, and a 50" Tosh in another room. Samsung wins. I have got an ultra short throw Epson projector, that's just under HD - 800 vertical pixels, but it doesn't half look good on the wall if we take the picture down - I got it off ebay to watch movies outside - just needed a new lamp. My son borrowed it to watch footie the other weekend in his mate's lockup, projected onto the side of a luton van - looked ace.

In what must surely be one of the dullest ever threads on STW, the following did provide some much needed amusement

Most of the time there’s nothing on it to entertain me?

🙂

Deserves more respect.

LOL

do I need one (or more) HDMI 2.1 inputs, as I’m not sure what the benefit of HDMI 2.1 is….?

HDMI 2 or greater is required to connect a 4k source.

HDMI 2 or greater is required to connect a 4k source.

I'm looking at a specific Samsung model. Last year's model had 4 HDMI inputs but only one is HDMI 2.1 whereas this year's model of same TV all inputs are HDMI 2.1.
Both are 4k. Apparently, Xboxes, Play Stations and other games consoles need 2.1 but I don't have any games consoles and I don't know of any other use case for 2.1....

55” OLED 4K. With full surround sound. 2 years later I’m still struck by how good the picture is.

If you don't have any input sources then why are you worrying about HDMI input specs?

If you don’t have any input sources then why are you worrying about HDMI input specs?

Future-proofing...current telly is about 15 yrs old so I'm likely to keep this for quite some time and I'm just curious whether anyone knows of compelling reasons why HDMI 2.1 is likely to be useful/needed in the future (just like I'd prefer not to buy a 26" wheeled mountain bike now 😄)

44 or 46 inch that's about 12yrs old. Ex demo from a mate who worked in tesco.... 200 quid.

When that goes ill upgrade but this race for bigger TVs is nuts. Lads on work change theirs every 2 yrs.... what a waste of resources.

Anyway I've about 6m of bookshelves so there.

Are tellys like penises?

Maybe, but presenters, especially so.

Got a 42"er. Standard, but seems on the small size compared to some here.
It has only recently replaced an old 32"er CRT monster. What it lacked in long measurement it made up for in sheer mass. Beefy.

ive just had an email from work about a company raffle thing. One of the top prizes is a 40" TV.
I dont know where i would put it! I havent entered.

We dont watch much TV anyway tbh. Only recently got a proper TV (rather than 22" monitor for netflix through the Xbox)
Only 32", but did go with the Ambilight one, with two Hue bulbs on the uplighters in the room. Its pretty pimp.
Surround Sound for your eyes.

If ever there is an advert to sell you something you don't need that Philips is it !

Doubt it. My telly is smart. Penis? not so much.

32" which looked big enough on paper, but Mrs Seadog is eyeing up bigger ones now.

Future-proofing…current telly is about 15 yrs old so I’m likely to keep this for quite some time and I’m just curious whether anyone knows of compelling reasons why HDMI 2.1 is likely to be useful/needed in the future

Fair.

It's as I said, really. HDMI 2.0 is needed for 4k. HDMI 2.1 has a higher bandwidth which is needed for resolutions above 4k (so obviously pointless if it's 'only' a 4k TV) or for higher refresh rates, probably other features too. Current-gen top end consoles and 4k blu-ray players are already using HDMI 2.1. HDMI 2.0 is likely "good enough" but you know better than I do what you're likely to be plugging into it in the future. If the non-2.1 ports are only 1.x though, I'd want to avoid it.

What 4k / 8k device are you going to want to plug in though ?

Any high quality stuff in our house is streamed by the telly ie YouTube, Netflix, iPlayer etc

No way would our son be using his PS4 (or whatever incarnation) on the lounge TV, although to be fair when we have done it it looks amazing

What 4k / 8k device are you going to want to plug in though ?

Any high quality stuff in our house is streamed by the telly ie YouTube, Netflix, iPlayer etc

Apple TV/Chromecast or games console would be the obvious.

Most half decent modern TV's come with all the functionality of apple TV and what a Chromecast can do, certainly our LG does, they only keep adding stuff to it, not taking away

certainly our LG does, they only keep adding stuff to it, not taking away

The Amazon logo looks more similar!

Who are all these weird folks who think a small or modest sized TV is the way to go? Never been to the cinema? Even weirder are those who like to proclaim they "don't own a telly" like it's some sort of intellectual power play.

Get the biggest your room can cope with.

What 4k / 8k device are you going to want to plug in though ?

His current telly is 15 years old and he wants to future-proof. What device is he going to want to use in 2037?

Most half decent modern TV’s come with all the functionality of apple TV and what a Chromecast can do, certainly our LG does, they only keep adding stuff to it, not taking away

But you're at the mercy of the TV manufacturer to continue to support it. I have a Samsung 'smart' TV which isn't that old, where most of the apps are out of date and don't work. My main (big stupid) LG doesn't have All 4 or whatever the Channel 4's on demand app is, I have to farm out to the Xbox for that.

In terms of smarts it's a lot easier to replace a 'set top box' than an entire TV which cost orders of magnitude more.

Biggest tv we have is a 58 inch in the lounge , only got upgraded from a 49" as that stopped working suddenly ? ... more than big enough considering we watch very little tv !

Who are all these weird folks who think a small or modest sized TV is the way to go? Never been to the cinema?

Yeah, doesn't mean we want a mahoosive, dominating cinema screen in the lounge though. That's what the cinema is for. 😉

Doesn’t mean we want to go to the cinema, that's what a mahoosive, dominating cinema screen in the lounge is for. 😁

In seriousness, having a big TV has killed my desire to go to the cinema stone dead. "Why not watch it on the big screen?" - well I can, and snuggling up with my girlfriend in fat leather reclining sofas with a couple of beers and a bowl of nachos hasn't just cost me fifty quid and an hour in the car.

The one thing I miss isn't the screen, it's audio. I have a pile of AV gear but it's still in the cupboard post-house move.

In seriousness, having a bit TV has killed my desire to go to the cinema stone dead. “Why not watch it on the big screen?” –

To be fair, I try to resist any attempt to get me to go to the cinema at any time ever. Even with my teeny tiny 32 incher.

There are other humans there, and other humans spoil virtually everything I find.
😂

Rather wait until it comes out on video.

Clearly then, what you need there is a big telly.

I like the cinema, but I try to go off-peak or towards the end of a film's run for exactly the reason you cite. The world won't end if I don't catch a new film on release day.

The one thing I miss isn’t the screen, it’s audio. I have a pile of AV gear but it’s still in the cupboard post-house move.

Just got the tape measure out. My telly is 32". I reckon we could just about get away with up to 40" in that alcove. Which we'll probably do if and when this one conks out.

Ive got a new gen LG OLED c2 42".. .. as it has to sit in the now defunct fireplace.

My house is small, an end terrace... I could mount a bigger screen above, on the defunct chimeny stack but I don't want to be looking up at it, and I also don't want a black monstroisity dominating the living room, and I'd rather have the TV at eye level from the sofa rather than having to look up at it.

The new LG OLEDS are seriously nice with HDR and OLED, so I went for quality rather than biggerness.

The Atmos sound is also good enough for me not to bother turning on my amp and proper speakers. I know to get proper Dolby atmos you need something daft like a 20 speaker system incuding down firing ceiling speakers, but the TV itself does a pretty damn good job with the AI /virtual atmos sound. So props to LG for that, considering how little space there is in the tv for physical speakers, it's really quite impressive for what it is. It still sounds tinny without proper speakers, and without the sub, but it's not shabby really.

That said, if my living room was 8m x 10m I'd totally get 70" or more screen.

Well, I pulled the trigger. 65 it is! Just gotta get some help installing it and playing around with the spaghetti to connect to my (5.1) amp/speakers.

We cut down some cardboard boxes and taped them together in a flat panel the same size as 65 telly then taped it to the wall just to get an idea of whether it would overwhelm the wall (it doesn't) and the best position.

Any opinions on HDMI versus optical for feeding the amp (assuming, as this is just audio, then HDMI 2.x or whatever capability isn't needed by amp?)

Even older HDMI will demolish optical. If you're using the TV as the source to drive the receiver then what you're looking for is HDMI-ARC. (I always did it the other way around - console, disc player, Sky box etc all into the receiver then the receiver to the TV, but that relies on all your sources being external.)

Even older HDMI will demolish optical. If you’re using the TV as the source to drive the receiver then what you’re looking for is HDMI-ARC.

Cheers!

For some reason, I'd always thought optical was superior to HDMI... obviously wrong about that!

Currently, laptop feeds receiver via HDMI, then receiver linked to old telly via another HDMI. A have an old Chromecast plugged into one of the old TVs spare HDMI inputs. I'm guessing I won't need that anymore. They're the only video sources currently.

Now, I'll have the apps on the new TV to take into account so I'll follow your suggestion.

I guess to my mind at least, the decision is "which is your input switcher?" You can use the telly or the amp (or both, if you're a sociopath) to swap between input sources.

If you're using the TV as a source in itself (broadcast DTV via a rooftop aerial, or inbuilt smart apps on a network) then you have to be sending audio back to the receiver. Then you plug your Chromecast, laptop etc into the various TV inputs. The TV switches inputs, the ARC (audio return channel) HDMI outputs audio back to the amp.

If you're NOT using the TC as a source then you can smash everything into the receiver inputs and change sources from there. In this scenario the receiver passes audio and video to the telly. As above, it's what I did back when I was using a 5.1 AV receiver but it'd be a non-starter for me today because it was only HDMI 1.4 and couldn't cope with 4k video.

Currently, laptop feeds receiver via HDMI, then receiver linked to old telly via another HDMI. A have an old Chromecast plugged into one of the old TVs spare HDMI inputs. I’m guessing I won’t need that anymore. They’re the only video sources currently.

The new TV may have Chromecast functionality built in. As for the laptop, what are you doing with that? If you're using it as a media source than I suggest you investigate Plex.

The new TV may have Chromecast functionality built in. As for the laptop, what are you doing with that? If you’re using it as a media source than I suggest you investigate Plex.

Yes, I've been told the new TV has built in Chromecast. Old TV is, essentially, acting as a monitor for the laptop which is currently used to stream Netflix, BBC iPlayer, All 4 etc etc and well as general browsing. I'm not sure what apps we'll be able to install on the new TV but we also want the new TV to act as the laptop monitor as well....
I flirted with Plex several years ago (when I had lots of content from that dodgy pirate BT site) but never got it working properly (my fault, I think, as I couldn't get Windows to recognize the NAS. In fact, I'd forgotten about the NAS until I pulled out the TV unit to check the connectivity!)
I may re-visit Plex once I've got to grips with the new TV

I’d been using Plex since day one but sacked it off recently, it’s bloated shite now. Kodi or if you’re more technically inclined, Jellyfin are alternatives.

The one thing I miss isn’t the screen, it’s audio. I have a pile of AV gear but it’s still in the cupboard post-house move.

Sonos Amp fed with hdmi Arc into a pair of decent speakers? Needs an ARC hdmi splitter (there is one available). It has a virtual centre speaker too. Personally I use a 5.1 set up with a Rel subwoofer but have considered the amp which is in the office and tested the stereo and it’s impressive. This will work from a latest generation Apple TV which makes for two small boxes and a set of hifi speakers. Hardly imposing and can be put away.

Watching sport on a cinema screen is great. The solid angle is about the same as sitting in the cinema. You won’t get that with a 65” TV. F1 cars are full size.

40” was the biggest we were ever having as the wife had a false chimney type wall built and the TV fitted in a 41” inch hole inside 😃. Now have 55” that covers the hole and fits perfectly to the size of the false bit.

Now SHE wants a 75” screen but not on the wall.

Love the cinema but wife hates it and covid killed her enthusiasm completely. But likes the amazon £14.99 new release rent movies.

Have a projecter in the guest room (wife)/ the cinema (son). It is amazing for the price-Optoma 42 with a 4k fire stick, xbox and switch share the 1.4 HDMI socket. Less than 100” due to room size.

WC has been nice and FIFA23 also. But we only have an older Bose under TV speaker that is ok. Downstairs on the tiny 55” we have a LG sk9 (maybe wrong id) with wireless rears. Sounds amazing for a SB, but has been years since I have a multi speaker system.

Need to balance up the sound and vision😃

Sonos Amp fed with hdmi Arc into a pair of decent speakers? Needs an ARC hdmi splitter (there is one available).

The problem is more of a practical one. There's nowhere really to put full-sized speakers and no easy way to run girlfriend-compatible cabling about the place.

It annoys me greatly that there doesn't seem to be any sensible means of using the Echoes as remote speakers. I have a couple either side of the TV as a Bluetooth stereo pair which works great for Internet-streamed audio, but using BT as a source means I can pair with one or the other but not both ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe that's just a shortcoming of BT, I don't know. In any case, the TV seemingly supports BT as an input but not an output (presumably because BT headphones don't exist...) So then we're into the realms of getting a Firestick which seems to have some sort of Theater[sic] mode but that's a whole other level of complication and shitbaggery that I don't really want, we've had the TV for 18 months and I still can't get my girlfriend to use the HD channels rather than Cataract-O-Vision.

Maybe that’s just a shortcoming of BT, I don’t know.

Mine is always turned on.

I have a Bush. It’s not very impressive.