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I see the big (over 50" is my reference) screens at the stores. They certainly look nice. I have some friends with big screens. 15 or 20 years ago, I saw a 6 foot back projection (or front - not sure, it varied over the years, it might have gotten to be 8 feet eventually) TV a friend had. I loved that guy, but he was a nut about TV. When not working, he and his wife watched TV. She had a disability and couldn't move around easily, and they seemed to live in their TV room.
Personally I have never gotten the bug. I just lost my "biggest" TV (about 21 or 23 inch) when the power supply blew out. It was an old CRT analog job that I had a government supplied converter hooked up to.
Once I had a really big TV a son left with me to keep. It was a giant CRT that could have a separate smaller picture on the big screen. He never would tell me how much it cost. Anyway, it essentially was two TVs in one, or it felt that way when you carried it around. 2 power supplies, etc. I finally gave it to another son when I had to move, and that caused a bit of a tiff with questions about what my son had instructed me to do about the TV, while he was away. The second son actually ended up throwing it away because the big picture died. The amount of ruckus that the first son then raised made me wonder how much the damn thing had cost.
Anyway, with my last big TV off at the electronics dump, I have now a 13" CRT digital TV I bought for about a hundred dollars at Walmart when the US went digital and my converter boxes hadn't come.
I put the converter on a 5" black and white analog set that I bought at HHgreg for $12. It works a lot better with the converter than it did by itself. I have it where I can see it while on my treadmill.
The 13" and 5' seem to be doing fine for me. When I move to my trawler, I won't need any bigger.
Now what I really want is a bigger computer monitor. Something like a 26" vizio would be nice.
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