They have been on sale in recent years Increasingly sized televisions It’s an effort by manufacturers to fill a niche that has until now been dominated by projectors in home theater sets.

They’re the gorgeous displays you see in store windows, and we’d love to take one home and enjoy it in style. But even if you have a large enough room to install it and the budget to buy it, Not everything is an advantage.

Fact is that Current Smart TVs present a number of issues or disadvantages This needs to be solved if they want to spread massively into our halls. Some, such as the difficulties of installation in very old buildings and homes or the still prohibitive prices for mid-high end prices, seem impossible to solve in the short term, but there are others that will be solved in the short term.

High electricity consumption

One of the factors we normally do not take into account when choosing a television is energy consumptionWe look at the resolution, brightness, functions, technology of the panel, but we do not look at whether it uses more or less watts.

However, if we are one of those who keep the television on for hours today, the fact that it makes “background noise” is a defining feature and is a very important issue to consider above all else. if we take a large diagonal model.

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According to the model we will buy Going from a 55” diagonal to a 75-77” diagonal can mean about 70-80% more electricity consumptionIt’s something we need to take into consideration if we’re going to keep the TV on for several hours a day.

However, with new technologies OLED panels are becoming more efficient As we’ve seen in this article, they’re increasingly making large TVs less expensive to run, while also incorporating saving functions that can help reduce the bill even further.

This means that for everyday use and for watching SDR content such as DTT, most current mid-sized models between 55 and 65 inches spend less diagonally than the much smaller plasma and LCD TVs of a few years ago, a feature that will increase diagonally, which we will soon reach in larger models.

Excessive heat

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Directly related to the previous point, we face the following problem: excessive heatbecause it implies more diagonals more heat in the room because the TV will consume more electricity and this will be noticeable on the screen. home air conditioner.

The TV acts as a small heater It will be on for most of the day and will heat the room when in use. In the winter it will be good for us as it will be like putting a flat stove on the living room furniture but in the summer it will fight against the air conditioner by raising the temperature of the house and Electricity costs are rising again To lower this temperature.

For example, a television with an average consumption of around 250 watts in summer can easily raise the temperature of a 15 square meter room. Between 1 and 1.5 degreesTherefore, the air conditioner will need more time and energy to keep the room cool.

And these huge 100-inch TVs are easy to consume More than 400-500 wattsThis is like having a radiator on in the living room. These consumptions are expected to decrease in the coming years thanks to more efficient panels, but at the moment this is still a major disadvantage.

More resolution for small rooms

Phil Holland’s app for finding the optimal viewing distance. Image: Stop Fomo on YouTube

The generally accepted rule for home use of television is the minimum viewing distance for general content and use. three times the height of the TV or 1.6 times the diagonal of a 16:9 screen.

So increasingly popular 65 inches requires us to sit around 2.5 meters away, equivalent to a viewing angle of 30°. Some figures that you can enjoy the screen for a long time with all kinds of content without getting tired.

But with increasingly larger screens and consolidation 4K resolution on TVs and projectors It has caused content creators to change the way they make movies and TV shows, and for current 77-inch TVs, it is recommended to sit 1.48m away.

With large-scale implementation Higher resolutions like 8K The limitations that are currently only available on some high-end models will be even less, because it will be difficult to see the structure of the pixels no matter how close we sit and Place larger TVs in smaller spaces.

A matter of weight

Another problem with today’s big TV channels is undoubtedly weightIn some cases, home installation may continue to be an additional challenge.

For example, in the case of 55-inch TVs, we are generally talking about weights that do not exceed 25 kilos, which is more than almost any furniture on the market and any wall, even drywall, can withstand, even if it is made of cheap chipboard. Walls if we take the necessary precautions.

But from there on the weight increases with each inch and is around that for models around 100 inches. 60-70 kilo more base. Cheap and average furniture will not support it, and we will have to buy a better model, made of natural wood or MDF, with good reinforcement.

Fortunately, the advent of more efficient panels and improvements in lighting control systems have made The weight of televisions is gradually decreasing regarding inches of TVs in the coming years, will it even be possible? modular screens Thanks to technologies such as MicroLED, the overall weight will be distributed and the TV will be easier to transport and install.

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