Planning my first ever TV purchase I spent last week walking into department stores on Oxford Street to take a look at Samsung's 37 inch offerings. Stepping into John Lewis I went to the top floor where the Audio/Visual department was and to my surprise I stumbled on a 103 inch Panasonic plasma hanging on the wall. My jaw simply dropped and suddenly my potential Samsung 37 inch TV looked microscopic. I've you've seen a 50 inch TV and think a 103 inch one is just twice as big then you're wrong. The screen was the size of a bloody wall and I suspect you'd need a fork lift or 8 guys to get it inside a house, that is if it even fits inside your house.
Last time I checked, 50" vs. 103" is the diagonal measurement, making the measurements the hypotenuse of half the screen.
Therefore, a 15" screen is 1/4 the size of a 30" screen.
And you know what really pisses me off? When someone who has no clue what they're talking about tries to sound smart [which you didn't] and insult the person who actually does know what they're talking about. By the way, I'm in 11th grade.
If you don't know what you're talking about, and you try to learn, that's fine, but you if you act like a smart a, shut the heck up.
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Planning my first ever TV purchase I spent last week walking into department stores on Oxford Street to take a look at Samsung's 37 inch offerings. Stepping into John Lewis I went to the top floor where the Audio/Visual department was and to my surprise I stumbled on a 103 inch Panasonic plasma hanging on the wall. My jaw simply dropped and suddenly my potential Samsung 37 inch TV looked microscopic. I've you've seen a 50 inch TV and think a 103 inch one is just twice as big then you're wrong. The screen was the size of a bloody wall and I suspect you'd need a fork lift or 8 guys to get it inside a house, that is if it even fits inside your house.
"I've you've seen a 50 inch TV and think a 103 inch one is just twice as big then you're wrong."
Well, of course you'd be wrong. A 100" screen is 4 times bigger than a 50".
Lucky it wasn't back-projected, or it'd be 20 times bigger than a 50"...
Last time I* checked 50 * 2 is 100. What are you smoking.
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Last time I checked, 50" vs. 103" is the diagonal measurement, making the measurements the hypotenuse of half the screen.
Therefore, a 15" screen is 1/4 the size of a 30" screen.
And you know what really pisses me off? When someone who has no clue what they're talking about tries to sound smart [which you didn't] and insult the person who actually does know what they're talking about. By the way, I'm in 11th grade.
If you don't know what you're talking about, and you try to learn, that's fine, but you if you act like a smart a, shut the heck up.
I do agree that 50*2=100, but you have to remember that this is not a one dimensional line.
You need Four (Yes, count 'em, four) 50-inch TVs to equal the area of a 100-inch TV. Two across and two high.
I'd say that if you need 4 50" TVs to equal the viewing area of one 100" TV, then the 100-inch TV is, in fact, four times the size.
You owe Spinner an apology.