Is 40inch big enough!

ChocolateStarfishRammer · 28 Oct 2013 at 09:10

Ive got a 47" and although at first it was massive.. Now, just not big enough.

Waiting for OLED to come down in price then will grab a 60-70 maybe even 80".

BeeP · 28 Oct 2013 at 10:17

I hardly even noticed the difference of moving from a 45" to a 50", apart from the 45 being a DLP telly lol.

Like some here I'll stick with my current TV until ~70/80's are a better price.......I'm sure I can fit around an 80 but I'm not so sure the mrs would be up for that.

Couldn't agree more with PeterNem, I guess we are still in the minority though so they keep on pushing out units to suit the masses.

Psycho Sonny · 28 Oct 2013 at 17:11

PeterNem said:
Agree that all the smart TV stuff is nonsense. I'd rather they either knocked a few quid off the price, or fitted a slightly better panel. Surely most people with a half decent set up just need a single HDMI input and nothing else.

Smart TV, dozens of inputs, built in speakers... all a waste of time. I'm surprised some of the manufactures don't make a line of TVs that do away with all the extras and focus purely on getting the best panel as possible in the box for the given price point.

they do, they are called professional monitors and cost many thousands of pounds, even more expensive than the ZT65B.

the reason why they are so expensive is because the production costs are so high yet the demand is so little so they have to increase the cost of the sets to rake back the costs.

in theory it sounds good, but only a very very small minority of people would actually buy a tv with no smart tv, no speakers and just high end panel with high end electronics driving it.

that's the reason why cars which have no radios, no fancy seats, no other crap, etc apart from an engine and 4 wheels cost more than the same car with a similar engine and all the mod cons.

production costs need to be recouped and with such a small market, it adds to the price heavily.

less than 0.1% of the population would even think about buying such a tv.

Daytrader · 28 Oct 2013 at 17:17

Well i would deffo buy just a tv monitor, would be great for gaming as well, very strange these days that they do not, as 99.9% of households have some sort of gaming console, all these smart tv's are crap for gaming and most not that good for movies either.

Psycho Sonny · 28 Oct 2013 at 19:21

Daytrader said:
Well i would deffo buy just a tv monitor, would be great for gaming as well, very strange these days that they do not, as 99.9% of households have some sort of gaming console, all these smart tv's are crap for gaming and most not that good for movies either.

what have you been smoking?

how does a tv having smart features make it crap for gaming?

my GT50 is absolutely fine for gaming it's around 30ms input lagg , motion processing and IQ are up there with the best of them.

it's also one of the top tv for movies.

please get a clue.

under 50ms input lagg = fine for gaming

panny plasma = best for Image quality therefore movies are flawless

Daytrader · 28 Oct 2013 at 19:35

All the extra processing on these smart tv's add to input lag, and even the very best commercial led/lcd/plasma has its pictures problems, nothing has come close to crt quality yet, and none of the mentioned screens will, dse,pillars,clouding,ghosting,blurring,input lag the list goes on, and even input lag of like 15ms/7ms i can notice easily, 30ms is terrible, some people just are not that fussy, wish i was one of them, but im very picky myself, you need to go and read the threads on all the latest tv screens over at avforums to see the problems.

OpenToSuggestions · 28 Oct 2013 at 19:37

I have a 47 inch in my medium sized lounge.

It is an older style LCD, so if I replaced it with a new almost-bezel-free one I would probably fit 50 inch into the same envelope.

Psycho Sonny · 28 Oct 2013 at 19:39

oh please as if CRT didn't have it's issues and was flawless.

I would take a panasonic plasma over any other tv any day of the week, it's the best bang for buck option.

there's no ghosting on mine, 30ms input lagg is fine, many people even those over at avforums use their GT50's for gaming with zero issues.

the only issue i have with mine is IR if i watch say sky sports for longer than 3 hours, but with time that should get better. in a few years i should be bale to watch a channel for 5 hours and get zero IR.

the only other issue i get is DFC but that could just be low quality feeds.

smart tv's are perfectly fine for console gaming, pc gaming then yeah get a pc monitor, simple as that really.

Secret_Window · 28 Oct 2013 at 20:12

I have 40" Samsung ES7000, and I already feel like I should have gotten either 47" or 50". More than happy with mine overall though.

Warbie · 28 Oct 2013 at 20:13

No!

4m from 120" and 2.5m from 55". You very quickly get used to the size and bigger is nearly always much better

finga · 28 Oct 2013 at 20:49

40" is a portable isnt it?

CaptainRAVE · 28 Oct 2013 at 20:58

Confused said:
Whatever size you get, you'll eventually get used to it, and wish that it was bigger!

Always this. In future I am just getting the biggest that will fit in the room.

TONY · 28 Oct 2013 at 21:02

finga said:
40" is a portable isnt it?

Just the right size for the kitchen.

The bigger the better I say as long as you can see the whole screen without having to move your head to see another part of the screen that is

andy_mk3 · 28 Oct 2013 at 21:43

When I get my own place and when I'm wealthy enough I'd like a 4k projector, nice and big then

FoxEye · 28 Oct 2013 at 22:37

It's funny how different things are this side of the Atlantic.

In the US, they don't even sell TVs smaller than 65"

OK, maybe that's not true, but if you go to somewhere like avsforum (not avforums, that's the UK equivalent), everybody only talks about 65" and bigger...

Raymond Lin · 29 Oct 2013 at 00:01

FoxEye said:
It's funny how different things are this side of the Atlantic.

In the US, they don't even sell TVs smaller than 65" OK, maybe that's not true, but if you go to somewhere like avsforum (not avforums, that's the UK equivalent), everybody only talks about 65" and bigger...

They also live in houses the size of a mansion for the cost of semi in zone 3!

A friend posted a question on Facebook asking "I have important questions about the relative merits of goats vs. other herbivores, specifically regarding their functionality as lawnmowers." as they just bought a house with 6.5 acres of land attaching to it.

C.R.A.Z.Y · 29 Oct 2013 at 02:34

Psycho Sonny said:
the only issue i have with mine is IR if i watch say sky sports for longer than 3 hours, but with time that should get better. in a few years i should be bale to watch a channel for 5 hours and get zero IR.

Not on a new Panasonic Plasma you won't!
Panasonic are ending plasma TV production by end of March 2014 and I'd be surprised if the other two Plasma manufacturers don't follow suit!!
Plasma is a dying tech which will be gone in a matter of a few years max imho

Secret_Window · 29 Oct 2013 at 20:33

C.R.A.Z.Y said:
Not on a new Panasonic Plasma you won't!
Panasonic are ending plasma TV production by end of March 2014 and I'd be surprised if the other two Plasma manufacturers don't follow suit!!
Plasma is a dying tech which will be gone in a matter of a few years max imho

To make way for OLED no doubt.

Psycho Sonny · 29 Oct 2013 at 23:37

C.R.A.Z.Y said:
Not on a new Panasonic Plasma you won't!
Panasonic are ending plasma TV production by end of March 2014 and I'd be surprised if the other two Plasma manufacturers don't follow suit!!
Plasma is a dying tech which will be gone in a matter of a few years max imho

I knew this months ago.

I plan on keeping my gt50 for at least another 5 years.

With time IR gets harder to happen. So yes in 2-3 years time my IR issues should vanish

mark2410 · 30 Oct 2013 at 15:44

well when i got my TV, i thought about maybe getting a 37 or even a 32 because surely a 40 is just too big. in less than week of getting it i wished id gotten much bigger.