Sizing Up Your Next TV: Here's Where Big Screens Are Taking Us

This was the largest television I'd ever encountered, and I've seen plenty of bizarro TVs that would never grace store shelves. Everything from huge, curved beasts priced at $200,000 to see-through screens. But at 115 inches, this TCL 115QM891G was the real deal. And it loomed. It had arrived at CNET's New York testing labs on loan from TCL. Weighing in at 229 pounds, this TV was trouser-rippingly heavy. So unwieldy, in fact, that it took four of us and a solid half-hour to assemble. On my own, I could barely manage to push the empty box across the room. It was undeniably a monster, bigger than most. Yet it serves as a clear reminder that we're living in an era of bright, supersized screens calling to us from the walls of Best Buy, waiting for a place to belong. The future is here. And the future is big. The real question is, how big is too big? Living room entertainment has evolved dramatically, from the tiny screens and bulky stereo consoles of the '50s to the boxy cathode ray TV ... Read full article.