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re: How far will the TV industry go with screen sizes?
Posted on 7/13/26 at 10:59 am to High C
Posted on 7/13/26 at 10:59 am to High C
I have a 75" in the living room and 55, 50, 43 in the bedrooms. I would love to have a 100" in the living room but unfortunately it just won't fit in my OT poor house. TVs are so cheap now. I think I paid less than $500 for my 75" LG.
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Posted on 7/13/26 at 11:06 am to High C
I have an 85 inch in the game room, and can’t imagine anything bigger fitting (without looking silly) plus the 85 inch is almost too big from a viewing standpoint.
I can’t imagine anyone truly needing more than 85 inch unless they have a movie room or something in their house. At that point, you just get a projector.
So I’ll say 85 is the max they’ll push. They’ll have bigger of course, but think their profits would peak with the 85.
I can’t imagine anyone truly needing more than 85 inch unless they have a movie room or something in their house. At that point, you just get a projector.
So I’ll say 85 is the max they’ll push. They’ll have bigger of course, but think their profits would peak with the 85.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 11:06 am to High C
I'm currently running with a Samsung 85". It's got a great picture and cost less than $1000. Anything bigger would be like sitting too close to a theater screen.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 11:07 am to MRTigerFan
my 1080p projector died recently. had it blasting onto a 115" elite screens set up. Have had that thing in one configuration or another for damn near 14 years. Depending on what model you get, the 100" 4k bad boys can be had for way cheaper than a 4k projector. Might just be the move. Had no idea TVs that big had gotten so affordable.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 11:07 am to High C
Sony has a new Bravia that’s around $30K and 115”. You can buy a decent car for that. 
The race currently is around brightness more than size. So much so you’ll get a headache if you don’t tweak them down from factory settings.
The race currently is around brightness more than size. So much so you’ll get a headache if you don’t tweak them down from factory settings.
This post was edited on 7/13/26 at 11:09 am
Posted on 7/13/26 at 11:08 am to Auburn1968
I think once you start thinkink about 100" TV's it is probably the time to start considering a projector
Probably time to start considering them once you get about 75" or8-"
Probably time to start considering them once you get about 75" or8-"
Posted on 7/13/26 at 11:09 am to High C
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Now, I have a 55”, and I feel like I’m the smaller end of the scale in 2026.
55" is tiny these days.
I have a 70" in my living room currently, and it is plenty big enough for us (and the couch is about 10-12 feet away from it anyway).
But I was in Best Buy last year and they had gigantic TVs there. I liked the 98" and 102" versions they had there...they both had absolutely gorgeous pictures. And at one point in my life (before marriage and kids), I would have walked out with one or both of those.
It's funny that of all the things in the electronics world that have had prices get out of hand, giant TVs isn't one of them. I remember back in the early/mid 00s my buddies and I used to go to Best Buy and look at what we called "Dream TV." And it was a 50" Pioneer plasma TV. And it was $9,999.99, and was only a monitor (i.e. it didn't even have speakers, so you had to also buy a surround sound or something like that). And nowadays, both (98"/102") TVs mentioned above were under $2100 IIRC. It's crazy how cheap/attainable huge TVs have become.
This post was edited on 7/14/26 at 7:32 am
Posted on 7/13/26 at 11:09 am to High C
I have a 100 and now want a 150
Posted on 7/13/26 at 11:13 am to idlewatcher
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Now, I have a 55”
That's OT poor bro
I’m aware.
My days of keeping up with the Joneses are long over, and they were brief and wife-driven when they were there. I have a relatively small home, and anything more than 55” would be just having it for the sake of having it.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 11:13 am to High C
Best thing about giant TVs getting cheap is what it has meant for outdoor and garage TVs when combined with streaming.
They’re cheap enough that you don’t have to buy a made for outside tv. Just get a decent giant one from Walmart and hope for four or five years out of it.
Same with the garage. Get as large a tv as you have space for.
They’re cheap enough that you don’t have to buy a made for outside tv. Just get a decent giant one from Walmart and hope for four or five years out of it.
Same with the garage. Get as large a tv as you have space for.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 11:25 am to High C
quote:For a long time 26" or 27" was the largest console TV you could get. The big all-plastic 32" came next. My roommate bought a 32" Sony for something like $900.00. It looked huge sitting on top of my console TV. We kept it on top like that for years.
t the screen itself was either 23” or 25”.
I had a friend with 32" sitting on his console TV the same way we did it, except he had someone take out the TV's inside components and build wooden shelves for his Sega Genesis games and VHS tapes. He was styling with that set up in the late 80's or early 90's.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 11:35 am to High C
I have wall space but it's a lot more important that the TV doesn't look too big than watching a big screen. I just don't care that the screen is big.
I think mine is about 42" and it kind of bothers me how invasive that looks.
I think mine is about 42" and it kind of bothers me how invasive that looks.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 11:35 am to chinese58
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looked huge sitting on top of my console TV
Are you really a 70’s-80’s kid if you didn’t have a setup similar to this at some point in your childhood?
Posted on 7/13/26 at 11:42 am to High C
I can see maybe a 144" down the line, but reasonably the 8 to 9 feet (96" to 108") are likely to be the upper end for size.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 11:47 am to High C
It depends on personal preference but myself I want my TV to be a part of my living room, not dominate it. Mine isn't a very large room so 65 inch or so would be about as far as I would want to go
Posted on 7/13/26 at 12:10 pm to High C
Currently have an 85" but it's for easier / better viewing for my wife with very low vision...and even at that size she sits about 5' from it.
Recently checked out the 98" TCL QM7K at Best Buy and holy crap what picture. Was on sale for $1899 and free delivery and setup.
Almost gave in but walked out before the temptation over came me.
Recently checked out the 98" TCL QM7K at Best Buy and holy crap what picture. Was on sale for $1899 and free delivery and setup.
Almost gave in but walked out before the temptation over came me.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 12:22 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
quote:Yep. We have a laser projector. Great images, but I could easily see 120" TVs edging that market out over the next few years.
Well, four years ago a projector was the only "affordable" way to get 100" inches or more in my media room.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 12:37 pm to High C
I was walking around Walmart yesterday. (Trashy I know).
They had some 85” floor models for around 450 bucks.
They had some 85” floor models for around 450 bucks.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 12:44 pm to High C
In addition to room size being a limit, distance between windows doors and from screen to sitting area are possible limits.
Our largest sits diagonally so it can been seen from the other three corners of the room.
OT: how do smaller screens show the very small print on some broadcasts?
Our largest sits diagonally so it can been seen from the other three corners of the room.
OT: how do smaller screens show the very small print on some broadcasts?
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