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32" or 37" lcd?

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nageov3t

Lifer
I need to buy a new tv this week, but for the life of me, I can't decide on whether the extra couple inches are worth the extra money to go with a 37" over a 32. (I've pretty much decided on an LCD over a plasma or dlp)

any thoughts? the living room in my new apartment is somewhat small, and the couch, arm chair, and beanbag chair will all likely be within 6-7' max of the tv (probably closer, if I can find a way to squeeze my desk into the living room once I'm done moving furniture).

I spent like half an hour at bestbuy yesterday trying to decide and was ultimately unsuccessful, so I'm looking for some advice from AT 🙂 the FiOS guys are coming on Sept. 5th, so my goal was to have the tv in the apartment before then so that I can test out the hd and whatnot while they're still here.
 
My feeling is bigger is better assuming they both have similar specs. I've never heard anyone say, man I wish my TV was smaller but I do know lots of people who think, "I could/should have gone bigger"
 
You could go all the way to 42" at that viewing distance, so I would definitely go with the 37". Like CalvinHobbes said, you won't be wishing that your TV was small 6 months from now.

I'm actually going to recommend taking a look at the 42" LCD TVs at Sears. They have a promotion right now to get $150 off of 40+" TVs when you use your Sears card. Someone on Fatwallet said that they had a 42" 720p Vizio LCD TV on sale for $850, and he got it for $700 with his Sears card. If that doesn't work, you can get the 1080p version for $1,200 up front and roughly $986 in the end. The way to get that is to go to fatwallet.com and create a username. Click the 5.0% cash rebate link on this page, and you'll get a 5% rebate through fatwallet (it'll take a few months, but then they'll send it either by check or paypal; I've gotten $51 in cash back from them over the years). You'll also have to use a Sears card for this, and the $150 savings is in the form of a mail-in rebate that is linked to on the Vizio product page.
 
As stated above, I'd also say go for as big as you can afford, with 37"-42" being a good sweet spot in LCD's now. I wouldn't spring for 1080p unless you have and can see the difference, and you are planning on getting a PS3 or something else than supports 1080p. One rule of thumb I've heard, you need a 60" screen and need to be within 10' of the screen to tell the difference between 1080p and 1080i/720p.
 
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