For most of my adult life I’ve had a 27″ television set and last year shortly after arriving back from NYC Comic-Con- I’m not sure if the East to West and back again had me a little off balance, but when I went to get Jonathon off the bus after returning back from our vacation- I miscalculated my foot placement and the electric wheelchair lift crushed my foot. In the middle of the night while on pain meds and sleep walking… I some how decided to move J’s wheelchair and got the cable wires tangled up in the tires which caused my television to crash down.

Later that week I went out and purchased a 32″ HDTV which seemed rather large to me at the time (along with the price tag- the tail end of the obnoxious prices DOH)… until I started to see other peoples televisions that were twice the size of my set. I went from being satisfied with the size to squinting trying to see the tiny people on the tiny screen… “Why aren’t I able to look in their pores like on my brothers television set??”

When I saw the Life Hacker article I was curious. “Is it just in my head that the size of my set is becoming unbearable or due to my living space do I really need a larger HDTV?”

You can following the link- or you can just figure it out yourself: Take the inches from your set and multiply it by two = the distance in inches that is preferred (there is a min and max distance, but the formula gives you the ideal distance). I learned that while I’m near the max distance from the television size- a 42″ would actually be perfect in my space (as the maximum size for minimal distance- or at least that’s what I’m telling myself).