The relative massiveness of any new TV lasts about 2 hours afaik!
Oh, absolutely! When I bought my first widescreen TV, a Philips Blackline 32″ CRT, which replaced a 24″ Panasonic FST CRT TV, my mum came into the room just as we’d finished struggling in with it and getting it onto the stand; she took one look, and said “oh my God, it’s huge!”
Within a day or so, it looked absolutely normal.
I’ve got a 40″ Bravia that’s now around seven, coming up eight years old, that has a large black bezel around it, and I reckon I could pretty much get a 55-60″ into the same place, just by moving the stand out a couple of inches.
No plans to yet, the Sony is still working perfectly, the two sets it replaced, as mentioned above, both lasted fifteen -twenty years…