{"id":10956,"date":"2016-04-20T00:47:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T17:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-dos-and-donts-of-buying-a-huge-tv\/"},"modified":"2016-04-20T00:59:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T17:59:08","slug":"the-dos-and-donts-of-buying-a-huge-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-dos-and-donts-of-buying-a-huge-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"The dos and don\u2019ts of buying a huge TV"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe BBC\u2019s Justin Webb has revealed that he ignored his wife\u2019s disapproval and bought a 65in screen. Was he right \u2013 or has he breached any number of etiquette and decor rules?Forget Brexit. The big issue of the moment is how big your telly should be, sparked by broadcaster Justin Webb\u2019s startling admission in the Radio Times that, with his disapproving wife away on a business trip, he sneaked out and bought a 65in job. A real whopper. \u201cI\u2019ve finally bitten the bullet and bought myself a TV worthy of the name,\u201d he says, dismissing the loathing of both TV and monster tellies as \u201cthe last refuge of the snob\u201d.\u201cEtiquette expert\u201d William Hanson, who recently wrote an article in the Daily Mail that included big televisions and cinema rooms in a list of \u201c12 items you should never own\u201d, says Webb\u2019s revelation has not made him change his mind, and he is happy to plead guilty to the charge of snobbery. \u201cTelevision is a downmarket medium,\u201d he says. \u201cIt is not the high church of culture. So having something that is so ginormous in order to watch something that is already pretty downmarket is even more downmarket than the medium itself.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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