This is much more bizarre than Brexit. This should be the focus of Britain's headlines tomorrow

[realmirage]

Who the hell watches such a small tv? These are Britons watching the news on Brexit. I had no idea people were watching such small tvs during dinner, or even had tvs this small in their houses. This small tv is making me question reality itself.

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[bigwillq]

1. My sis had a TV that size in her room

Before it crapped out. She liked it.

[realmirage]

2. how can they even see it? Did your sis use a telescope?

[bigwillq]

3. She saw it just fine, I guess.

She had it for years.

[realmirage]

5. just kidding, it is a small tv though

[eppur_se_muova]

4. That is a combo computer monitor/TV. I have a couple of those. Saves space.

Some cultures manage to make do with modest living quarters and compact furniture. Not everyone is a space-grabbing, resource-gobbling American.

I was perfectly happy with my 13" BW TV, and would still be using it if they hadn't forced digital TV on everyone, like it or not.

Try checking out a Tokyo or Hong Kong apartment some time.

[realmirage]

6. Well

The places you mentioned are that way because there's no space. If they had more space they'd be enjoying it. But really, when I bought my 55" tv the guy at the store did not also sell me 10 acres of cleared land to set it up. It would fit in that couple's room in the photo. I know some people don't care that much about a large tv, or it isn't within their means if they live in a 3rd world country, but in America large tvs are pretty standard. Watching films on a large screen is so much more enjoyable. It's similar to the difference between having a window the size of a ritz cracker and a 6 foot window overlooking the horizon. Why wouldn't you want the bigger one? I really hope that in Britain, when you walk into a movie theater there isn't a 40" tv sitting on a table.

Just kidding

[littlebit]

7. I didn't know they made them that small

The smallest one I have is 52 inches. Anything smaller than that I have to wear my glasses to see. And I really do not like to wear my glasses at home. At least that was my excuse for buying a big tv.

[kentauros]

8. My only TV is a ten-year-old Sharp, 33"

When I can afford to replace it, I doubt I'll go any higher than 40". If I want a home theater I'll win the lottery first and then have an actual theater built. And one that does not stretch 4x3 ratios to 16x9, dammit!!1!1!!!

[realmirage]

11. You could look into a pc monitor like the one above

You'll need the vision of an eagle though.

[kentauros]

12. My computer monitor is a 24"

If I could afford dual monitors, I would have them, because I need more monitor "real estate" when working on graphics. I don't need more than 40" for the TV. Not a home-theater buff, other than how I have mentioned it already.

And I would rather spend more money on my computer than my television. I'd love to have a dedicated RAID for all of my media and a nice pair of AudioEngine speakers and subwoofer (partly to indirectly let my downstairs neighbor begin to understand how subsonics rattle whole buildings when he's playing his shoot-em-up games at high volume.) Playing the last cut to the (tribal) soundtrack of Apocalypse Now would be a fine teaching moment on subsonics versus rigid structures

Other than some minor pixel problems, the Sharp is still fine for me. And I sit only eight feet from the TV as it is. It's not like I have a home-theater set-up in this apartment. I even still just use the speakers in the TV

[pinboy3niner]

9. Not everyone is going for the sitting-in-the-front-row-at-the-movies effect

[realmirage]

10. Or

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[kentauros]

13. How *bad* is -your- vision?

[pinboy3niner]

15. ...

[jakeXT]

14. meh, it's a flat panel, I still got two tube tv sets /nt

[realmirage]

19. So does my dad, but his TV is still around 40"

[One_Life_To_Give]

16. Not everyone is obsessed with conspicuous consumption nt

[realmirage]

20. So you're saying if you saw a window the

size of a fig newton you'd find nothing unusual about it

[NightWatcher]

17. Are you sure it's not just an iPhone 6Plus turned on its side?

I sometimes watch tele on my iPhone.

[AngryOldDem]

18. What's bizarre about it?

It could be that their flat is that small, making anything larger impractical. It could be this is all they can afford. It could be they're not glued to it 24/7, so the size becomes immaterial. It could be they're just not that into huge, material possessions.

If it obviously works for them, why does it matter? I just hope they still have the TV and a place to live once Brexit fully plays out.

[realmirage]

21. I was joking more than anything else

[Orrex]

22. Actually, those are Great Britons

They're four meters tall.

[proverbialwisdom]

23. Check it out.

http://www.adweek.com/news/television/how-millennials-consume-tv-depends-which-stage-life-theyre-170393

[hunter]

24. I've never in my life deliberately watched television news on a larger screen then that.

I commonly watch news videos, like those posted here on DU, on a 10" X 6" screen.

Our 37" television only plays movies. No cable, no satellite, no broadcast.

I LIKE IT that way.