"John Kuthe" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 18:35:10 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
> wrote:
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>>On Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 3:18:54 PM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>> On 10/18/2015 4:50 PM, John Kuthe wrote:
>>> > On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 16:35:06 -0400 (EDT), Cheryl
>>> > > wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Wrote in message:
>>> >>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Cheryl totally different subject - I see under your signature an
>>> >>> Android newsgroup reader, is it purely a reader or can you post from
>>> >>> there too ?
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >> read and post.
>>> >
>>> > On a little bitty screen!! Not as real computer screen like my HP
>>> > Pavillion 27xi!! TWENTY SEVEN INCHES, diagonally!!
>>> >
>>> > John Kuthe...
>>> >
>>>
>>> Funny, my two home computers have a 24" and a 27" screen, but 80% of
>>> what I do is on my 11" Acer netbook. Right now I'm watching TV with my
>>> wife and I'm sitting back in the recliner with the netbook on my belly.
>>> I can also lay in bed with the head up and do the same thing with my
>>> feet under the blanket. Power beds was a great idea. Got them when my
>>> wife had surgery a couple of years ago. Bedroom has a 40" screen and
>>> soundbar.
>>
>>My theory is that people with poor eyesight should be watching movies on
>>small screens instead of big ones. With a small screen, you can put your
>>face right up to the screen and see more than you could with a big screen.
>>The future of TV screens for old folks could be smaller, not larger.
>
> I've got no use for an itty butty screen!! I love as much screen "real
> estate" as I can get!! This 27" diagonal screen is perfect because it
> still fits between the uprights on my computer desk hutch! A bigger
> one would not.
I think that's a guy thing. I only ever bought one TV. A very small black
and white. I have had two TVs since. Both gifts. One was the same size
but color. My dad didn't like my black and white so got me the color.
Then when Angela was small, we had been using my husband's old TV which was
actually bigger than I prefer. It went bad so out came my old little one.
Daughter and I were fine with it. Husband and dad were not. Dad bought me
the one that we have now. He also bought my husband his own TV. Husband
has since bought several others, each progressively bigger. And he wants
bigger still. His dad had a huge one.
I am fine with something about the size of an average notebook. The one I
have currently is bigger than that but it's okay. I wouldn't want much
bigger though. My brother had a little black and white back in the 70's
that had a screen not much bigger than a Saltine. That was a little too
small for me and I think you could only get sound via headphones.