iNCHTV.com - Shop for Televisions by Diagonal Screen Size
The television industry’s standard method of measuring, marketing, and advertising the screen size classes of their TVs is diagonally, inside the bezel across the screen’s viewable surface area, from the top left corner to the bottom right corner (or from the bottom left corner to the top right corner) and rounded up or down to the nearest whole inch.
The purpose of this iNCHTV.com website is to simplify the process of shopping for your next TV purchase by screen size. As you can see at the top of this page, individual iNCH TV size pages start with the largest available screen sizes and work their way down to smaller sizes. (TV sizes smaller than 49 inches diagonal are linked to from the all TV sizes page.)
Especially for the largest screen size TVs, you should get a helper or two for transporting, unboxing, moving, and either placing the TV atop an appropriate stand or mounting it on the wall. At a bare minimum, in addition to purchasing a new television, you will need to separately supply or buy an appropriately-sized sturdy TV stand, entertainment center, table, or other piece of furniture to place it upon, or a wall-mounting bracket to affix it to your wall. Get professional help to wall mount your TV if needed.
TV Size Distance Chart - What Size TV Screen for Room?
If you are wondering “What size TV should I get for my living room?”, you are in luck. While there is no exact method for how to size a TV for a room, what size TV for distance somewhat depends on how immersive you want your television viewing experience to be. Our TV Screen Size and Viewing Distance Chart below has two columns.
In the first column are the largest TV sizes measured by diagonal screen size currently available for purchase in the USA. In the second column are the corresponding recommended viewing distance ranges for each TV size listed in both feet and inches. The first distance is the absolute closest you would want to be seated from the television for maximum immersion, and the second distance is the farthest away that you would want to sit from the TV. Notice in the Samsung video below that they recommend 3 meters (118″) as an appropriate viewing distance for their 98 inch television.
Although some TV manufacturers are putting considerably more effort and money into improving the sound quality of their latest higher-end TVs, they are still ultra-thin, which still leaves minimal space inside the television for amplifiers and speakers. You will definitely want to consider at least adding an optional external soundbar system with a subwoofer, perhaps with Dolby Atmos and rear surround sound speakers, to vastly improve upon the TV’s sound quality, or better yet a component-based home theater audio system if your room will accommodate it.
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