Why do we get used the size of things after while?

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: MistaFreeze

Originally posted by: spacejamz

I love my 42" westy...the only that sucks about is having to go to work where i only have 19" LCD...

to each his own...

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my ol' westy 37" (on the right) is relegated to wife duty now

I don't see how you can sit that close to such a big screen. I guess it would just take some getting used to but you'd think it would be bad on your eyes.

Wouldn't it be better for your eyes than a smaller screen at the same resolution? Everything would be bigger, and the physical distance between screen and eyeball would be the same or maybe a little bit farther with the giant screen ...

 

[Koing]

My 50" tv looks small...I'll want a 70" when they are £2k for a decent one

Koing

 

[vshah]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
I have two 19"s at home and at the help desk I had 2 20" and better native resolution. From work to home I can manage fine.

Now I'm in another office and I have 2 widescreens, which are basically the same as my home monitors, but with the top cut off, and a super crappy native resolution. Sucks that everything is going widescreen now too. It's basicaly taking a normal size LCD and cutting the top off, so you lose lot of space for the same money.

I remember when I first got my 2 19"s at home. I upgraded those from a single 17 CRT and went from 800*600 to 1280*1024. Wow, what a difference that was.

but you can see 2 pages side by side....that is infinitely more useful to most people than a couple extra vertical inches. don't think about it as lopping off the top. think of it as adding to the sides of a shorter monitor to begin with...

 

[Viper GTS]

Monitor upgrades are addicting. Jump as high as you can up the chain so you don't hit every step on the way up. I'm in the process of adding two 20.1" 4:3 panels in portrait to flank my 30" (that I've had for less than 6 months), I think I'll be good for a while since I'll have no real upgrade path. 4960x1600 should keep me happy.

Viper GTS

 

[AnonymouseUser]

This happens as you age. Cataracts are a bitch.

 

[nerp]

Originally posted by: OCguy
Interesting. My SO still isnt used to the size. She can barely walk.

That's what you get for buying her a pony for christmas.

 

[nerp]

Originally posted by: MistaFreeze

Originally posted by: spacejamz

I love my 42" westy...the only that sucks about is having to go to work where i only have 19" LCD...

to each his own...

Text

my ol' westy 37" (on the right) is relegated to wife duty now

I don't see how you can sit that close to such a big screen. I guess it would just take some getting used to but you'd think it would be bad on your eyes.

And a screen that big with maximized web browser? Blah.

 

[PingSpike]

It doesn't become small to me really, but the "wow" goes away pretty fast.

I think the weirder thing is when I sit down in front of a smaller monitor I never think "Wow! This is so small!". I might think its a little smaller but most of the time I don't even notice.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: InflatableBuddha
I guess because we're a "bigger is better" type of society. Look at nearly all car models...since downsizing in the late 70s/early 80s, they've become progressively bigger in all classes.

One thing that pisses me off though is clothing sizes, which have become progressively larger. I have slightly older but decent "medium" shirts, which are now the same size as newer "small" shirts.

It's even worse for polyester athletic wear. I keep that stuff almost forever because it never wears out, but I've added to my collection over the years. Older, tighter fitting medium shirts are smaller than the baggy "small" shirts I recently bought. Dammit, I'm not getting any bigger, why should my clothes? :|

Because most Americans are getting bigger. They just don't want to know about it!

 

[moshquerade]

it's called getting accustomed.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: InflatableBuddha
I guess because we're a "bigger is better" type of society. Look at nearly all car models...since downsizing in the late 70s/early 80s, they've become progressively bigger in all classes.

One thing that pisses me off though is clothing sizes, which have become progressively larger. I have slightly older but decent "medium" shirts, which are now the same size as newer "small" shirts.

It's even worse for polyester athletic wear. I keep that stuff almost forever because it never wears out, but I've added to my collection over the years. Older, tighter fitting medium shirts are smaller than the baggy "small" shirts I recently bought. Dammit, I'm not getting any bigger, why should my clothes? :|

Because most Americans are getting bigger. They just don't want to know about it!

Yea, I'm well aware. It's a very disturbing trend, but I guess companies have to cater to it since so many people are overweight/obese. Just sucks for the rest of us who are actually at a healthy weight.