What’s the big deal about TV sizes? Right now, I’ve got a 22″. I’ve got Batman Begins up — although I watch it a few times a year, I want it to be fresh in my mind: I’ve got tickets to the Saturday afternoon showing of The Dark Knight at the Uptown Theater. Anyway, my point is this: so I’m watching this film, this really good film that doesn’t even seem like its based on a comic book, and it really doesn’t seem to matter that the last time I watched it was on the now-busted 36″ that dominated my living room in Timonium.
Okay, granted: this new apartment is much smaller. Although the actual living room/bedroom space is about the same size as it was in my last apartment, it seems smaller because it doesn’t have the dining room opening up onto it. In any case, I’m watching the movie, and I think that when you find yourself drawn in and lost into a film the way certain ones have a way of doing, you forget that you’re looking at a 10″ monitor or whatever. I mean, okay, I think to an extent it depends how far from the TV you are — if you’re twenty feet away from a 10″ monitor, you probably can’t see what’s happening. But I think my TV — as small as it might be — is as big as I need in this apartment, and seems larger than it actually is.