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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
(Any one ready from VM close your eyes you've seen this already).
Our only TV is a Sony CRT with SCART inputs hence we like to keep our standard TiVo. We have a convertor but it only does SCART composite so picture quality isn't very good. The FireStick lets me fine tune the picture so it fits nicely but the V6 has bits all chopped off. We also have lots of recordings that we don't want to lose and many,many series links. We use the HD in both TiVo and V6 and can watch recording on either from either (normally from the V6 on the TiVo) so have 1.5TB storage (shame the 1TB TiVo failed).
I'm not going to get a new TV until the current one stops and one problem is that the smaller screen new TV's aren't that good. Currently we have 28" and really that is plenty, maybe 32" since flat panels have less around them. The guides talks about size to viewing distance - my wife is often maybe around 1m from screen, I'm about 3-4m on sofa as furthest usual distance but could be 8m at sharp angle if watching from dining table (only for live rugby).
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28 inch TVs aren't readily available these days. Some sizes just fall out of favour. I have relatives who have a 26" screen, they too won't be likely to replace it with a screen that size. There are a wider array of sizes in computer monitors, but the problem with them is they often don't come with remotes, so you'll probably need to press physical buttons to change the volume! I have this latter problem myself in one (secondary) room.
There was a time when 19 inch TVs were reasonably easier to source, but 22 and 24 (mostly the latter) are really the only "small" sizes available below 32 inch TVs.
If you were replacing the 28 inch, a 32 inch is the way to go. We replaced a 10 year old 32 inch HD LCD in 2017 with another 32 inch TV (this time 1080p rather than a weird in-between resolution) and the physical size difference was, frankly, amazing. Our replacement TV was so much smaller frame-wise, you'd have sworn it was a smaller size screen. The room felt more spacious afterwards. So from experience I can say you can replace an old 28 with a modern 32 and it won't be
too much for the room.
32 inch TVs aren't available with 4K/UHD (that I've seen). TV manufacturers only seem to want to do 4K on 40" and above. (Downscaled 4K (via V6) looks lovely on 1080p though, in my humble opinion.) You can get 4K computer monitors at 32" though.