Forget the formulas — pick a TV-size that pleases you

TCL 49-inch set

I recently purchased a 55-inch TCL 5- Series 4K TV for a media room in my house. I brought it home, set it up, sat down to watch TV and immediately had buyer’s remorse because the set was too big for the room.  The distance between the set and my eyes when sitting on the couch is 87 inches, and that’s as far as it can be given the dimensions of the room. In theory, the set was about the right size or maybe even a little small for the room, but in practice — at least as far as my wife and I were concerned, it was too big. (MORE)

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