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Is a 60 inch Plasma too Big?

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wnangle

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I have a pretty good size room with a large wall that I have been saving for a big screen TV. I'm told that July 4th will have some great sales and to wait for that holiday to purchase my big screen. My question is:

How big can I go?

SPECS: Distance from seats to viewing wall. 12 feet for first tier and then the kitchen is another 6 feet back further.
Wall size 20 feet wide, by 16 feet tall.

I've taken some tape and taped out the outline of a 60 inch TV on the wall. It seems fine, but bigger would probably be better. The wall looks pretty empty with just this 60 inch box in the middle.
 
Id probably go with a larger TV with 12' viewing distance. 60" screen -- id be comfortable with 9' viewing distance
 
never too big!
except, yea I'd go with a projector for anything larger than that, or even for that size too.. depending on the quality of projector that is affordable at least.
 
I shudder to think how much power a 60" plasma TV would require and how much heat it would dissipate.

I agree with Tiamat, with your viewers sitting 12-18 feet away, you might consider getting a 70-72" rear projection TV. Do room lighting conditions allow for a front projector? Epson and Panny have 1080p models out for $3k now (granted, the Panny has a $1k rebate but includes a 3 year warranty). Likewise, you can probably pick up a gently-used Sony Pearl 1080p projector for around $3k...

 
Originally posted by: arcas
I shudder to think how much power a 60" plasma TV would require and how much heat it would dissipate.

I agree with Tiamat, with your viewers sitting 12-18 feet away, you might consider getting a 70-72" rear projection TV. Do room lighting conditions allow for a front projector? Epson and Panny have 1080p models out for $3k now (granted, the Panny has a $1k rebate but includes a 3 year warranty). Likewise, you can probably pick up a gently-used Sony Pearl 1080p projector for around $3k...
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Whats the life of these bad boys? Also do they still sound like a jet plane taking off?
 
Originally posted by: wnangle
I have a pretty good size room with a large wall that I have been saving for a big screen TV. I'm told that July 4th will have some great sales and to wait for that holiday to purchase my big screen. My question is:

How big can I go?

SPECS: Distance from seats to viewing wall. 12 feet for first tier and then the kitchen is another 6 feet back further.
Wall size 20 feet wide, by 16 feet tall.

I've taken some tape and taped out the outline of a 60 inch TV on the wall. It seems fine, but bigger would probably be better. The wall looks pretty empty with just this 60 inch box in the middle.
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With a 12' viewing distance, you can go over 100" quite easily.
 
No such thing as a TV that's too big!!!

If anything the room is too small...lol

Bigger the better IMO for TVs....give you room for future growth..
 
Originally posted by: arcas
I shudder to think how much power a 60" plasma TV would require and how much heat it would dissipate.
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For their size, plasmas don't really draw more energy in actual usage than other technologies. They say to figure about 50% of the stated specs for plasma. So, a 60" plasma might draw 350 watts average.

 
Originally posted by: Finality
Originally posted by: arcas
I shudder to think how much power a 60" plasma TV would require and how much heat it would dissipate.

I agree with Tiamat, with your viewers sitting 12-18 feet away, you might consider getting a 70-72" rear projection TV. Do room lighting conditions allow for a front projector? Epson and Panny have 1080p models out for $3k now (granted, the Panny has a $1k rebate but includes a 3 year warranty). Likewise, you can probably pick up a gently-used Sony Pearl 1080p projector for around $3k...
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Whats the life of these bad boys? Also do they still sound like a jet plane taking off?
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Mine comes with a standard 2 year warranty which is much longer then most any other tv on the market, so there is 2 years vs 90 days parts and labor and 1 year parts on most.

Most offer a 90 day bulb warranty, if your serious about getting one, pm me, there is a great place to buy from on line with great prices and they offer a 2 year bulb extended warranty for only $99 and most of their stuff has free shipping and always a sale on stuff.

They are pretty quiet, can hardly hear mine and I have it set to high, on low you really have to listen for it.

If you get a rear PJ, be it LCD or DLP you will need to change a bulb in it as well, again its warranty will be very low compared to a front pj, so if you have to change bulbs you may as well go all out or nothing at all. I have 100" and sit 13 feet away. Its the shi1t.

For $895 shipped you can get THIS
It has free shipping, free bulb warranty, free screen, and free 1 year extended making it 3 years instead of 2. Going to be very hard to match up with this anywhere else IMO. May not be HD 1080P but 720P will look great.

Im just throwing you options you have out there and the price is all, not saying you have to.
 
I sit 13 feet away from a 63" plasma. I could never want a bigger picture. Except a projector. Going with a rear-projection at around 70" would NOT be worth it to me. The quality I get with my plasma outsurpasses any rear-projection I've ever seen (and I own a DLP upstairs), and the only other upgrade I would make would be a front projector only for size reasons.

Bottomline: For that size room, 60" sounds damn nice 🙂.
 
Repeat after me

"I am a man, no plasma TV is too big for me. Fear me, fear my plasma TV"

... whats the world coming to :|
 
actually, I think a 60" plasma is too big. Very hard to mount on wall and very easy to tip over. Bad idea.
 
Originally posted by: sdifox
actually, I think a 60" plasma is too big. Very hard to mount on wall and very easy to tip over. Bad idea.
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I guess that settles it. :roll:
 
Originally posted by: sdifox
actually, I think a 60" plasma is too big. Very hard to mount on wall and very easy to tip over. Bad idea.
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Very hard to mount on wall? I had installers do it in two hours for a 63" on a tilt mount, with no problems. Don't talk if you don't know what you're talking about.
 
Also depends on the video feed. HD OTA or from your cable/satellite box & HD-DVD/Blu-Ray video will look great, but SD video will look disappointly bad. SD video on my Sony 42" RP-LCD is ok. Couldn't imagine what it would look like at 60".

 
Originally posted by: morkman100
Also depends on the video feed. HD OTA or from your cable/satellite box & HD-DVD/Blu-Ray video will look great, but SD video will look disappointly bad. SD video on my Sony 42" RP-LCD is ok. Couldn't imagine what it would look like at 60".
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Again, depends on the TV. My TV makes SD look just fine, even at that size.
 
Originally posted by: SLCentral
Originally posted by: morkman100
Also depends on the video feed. HD OTA or from your cable/satellite box & HD-DVD/Blu-Ray video will look great, but SD video will look disappointly bad. SD video on my Sony 42" RP-LCD is ok. Couldn't imagine what it would look like at 60".
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Again, depends on the TV. My TV makes SD look just fine, even at that size.
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It also depends on whether you are watching digital or analog SD. Digital SDTV should look fantastic on any decent HDTV. All this poor SD on an HDTV talk needs to die at this point. I've got digital SD stations on time warner that look better on my 42" Aquos than anything that I ever received from my old 36" Sony Vega.

 
Originally posted by: SLCentral
Originally posted by: sdifox
actually, I think a 60" plasma is too big. Very hard to mount on wall and very easy to tip over. Bad idea.
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Very hard to mount on wall? I had installers do it in two hours for a 63" on a tilt mount, with no problems. Don't talk if you don't know what you're talking about.
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Man, the internet would be a quiet place if people followed that bit of advice...
 
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