Beyond what looks better do you have a place to put it? If you are planning on placing it in an existing cabinet either or both may be too large.

It depends on how big your living room is. I wouldn't get the 65" in my house. We have a Samsung Curve 3D tv that is 55". It's pretty big.

I had Sony TVs for years, but now I have two LGs and I love them.

I will never buy another Visio, the one that I had stopped working after 18 months and it would have cost more to fix the power supply than to buy a new TV.

I can’t advise on size, 46” is as large as my wall unit can handle. My brother has a 65” LG and he likes it (also a former Sony TV person).

We have a 55 inch Plasma tv that I hope never breaks because I really love it. Our living room is long and narrow. We’re only 10 feet from the tv and can watch it comfortably, it’s a good size for the space. My DH keeps trying to talk me into a larger 65 inch, but I’m just not interested,

I totally agree with Diane, we recently replaced a Visio with an LG in our master bedroom and there’s no comparison between the two. The Visio got little use and the on/off switch broke after only a couple of years. Not sure how since we only used a remote but one day it just stopped working and apparently that’s not uncommon for the Visio brand. The LG is fantastic, great picture, good options to fine tune it and the sound is strong and clear, no need for a sound bar.

The biggest problem with the new TVs is they have crappy speakers. i would try to budget for a sound bar as well as the biggest tv you can afford. I have no preference for brand. have an inexpensive Element in the kitchen , another cheapy in the bedroom and an 11 year old Sharp in the living room. As for size I say the bigger the better.

I had two Vizio's die so went with Samsung. After the second Vizio, I read in a couple of different sources how they're relatively cheap and not high quality.

Samsung and a sound bar!

We have a 55" Samsung and soundbar. My father just got a 75" Samsung, and loves it! The distance from your sofa/chairs to the TV should be a consideration. Our 55" is OK, because it is only 10' from the sofa. My father's TV is about 16' from his recliner, so that's a good size. I have several Sony TVs, and happy with all of them, but I will likely buy another Samsung when I'm in the market. I recommend a Smart TV, with the remote that you can talk to. Enjoy!!

I have a 32 " Samsung and really like it. I am going to try to go up to a 42" next yr. I'd go to a 48" but don't have the space for it. The 32" seemed so huge after my 26"! Maybe by next yr I'll figure out how to fit a 48" in here.

go to a store and stand in front of both sizes (tv on), stand back as far as you can to equal the distance you'd watch from when at home and see what you think of each size. Then decide.

Love my Samsung 65 ". Loved my previous Samsung 58" plasma before the flood.

It also depends on the resolution of the tv. Plus the height you place it in relation to where you will view it from. Here is a good guide to sizing a tv by type and for your viewing habits.

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/choose-right-tv-size,news-24708.html

You won't regret going bigger. And another recommendation for Samsung.

Go as big as you can. Our LR is 16x19 and we have a 70" mounted on the wall. It sat on a stand for years but I wanted it wall mounted to clear some visual clutter from the room. Love it! We've had it for probably 5 or 6 years now. We will buy that size or bigger when the time comes. Hopefully not for a long, long time!!

I do agree, the speakers are crappy. I have a bluetooth speaker we use. Not all the time. But in some shows/movies the background music just overwhelms the words. With the bluetooth speaker we can hear the words over the music but still hear the music in the background. I have 2 bluetooths, one is a little cube you can hold in your hand, great for setting it right beside you because it can be kept turned down so low you can't hear it in the next room. The bigger one we have, we use if everyone in the room wants to hear the show.

There is a ‘rule’ or more of a guide for how big your tv should be. Measure the distance from your sitting area to the tv location. Multiply by 12 (example, if it’s 10ft, multiply by 12 inches which would be 120). Then divide by 3, which would be 40 in the example. That is the size tv (diagonal measurement) you should get. You could go up to the next size.

As to brand, there are many reviews for the size you are looking to buy. Samsung and LG get generally very good reviews as does Sony. Sony is going to be higher priced. Vizio has fallen off in ratings lately. Just be sure to get the features you need and want. Sound is usually bad and you will need augmented sound via a sound bar or similar. Curved screens have not proved to be popular and aren’t viewable from every angle in some rooms. We just bought a new tv a few months back so did a fair amount of research.

We have a small sony tv and it plays an extremely loud two-tone when you turn it on. Fortunately it's in the office and not in the bedroom! The tv is fine but that noise is most annoying...and I've not found a way to turn it off.

We have a 50" LG plasma that we put in in 2010 and are still happy with it. But technology has changed so much since then, that it's probably already quite out of date.

We treated ourselves to 4 TV's last year when we moved into our new place: a small 20" LG for the kitchen shelf, a 60" Samsung for the family room and two 55" Sony's (one in the bedroom and one in DH's study). We like the picture quality in all of them.

If you're planning on wall mounting your TV my DH really likes the Sonos extension mount. We bought everything from Best Buy and had them do the installation. The extension mount can hold large TV's and articulates which allows for flexibility in viewing - it tilts up and down, swivels and extends out to 20" + and holds the sound bar.

Samsung is still VERY good. Bigger is better! I have sound systems attached to ALL my TV's.

I just purchased a 32" Sceptre. My dentist has them in all her patient rooms. They are cheaper, less dpi's.....but.....seem to last, per my dentist's experience. The sound was especially bad on THIS TV.

I agree with what someone previously said about it depends on how far away you will be sitting from the screen. Our living room is 15' wide- sofa on one wall, TV on the other. We had a 55 for a couple of years and when it had problems and died, there was no doubt in my mind to go to 65.

When we were first thinking about buying a big TV, we cut out pieces of paper the size of the actual TV and taped them to the wall where the TV would ultimately be. Then we lived with the paper for a little while to get a feel for how it would fit into the room. It's not the same as a TV, but will give you some ideas as to how big it will feel in the room.

We went from having a 32 inch to no tv, to now having a 50 inch. It seems quite fine to me (still adjusting to the big-ness!!) . Reading these it sounds like we should have gone for the 55 but I am really quite pleased with the 50 inch. It's a Samsung which we got promotionally from Verizon. Costco had it as well but with our points and credits, it was significantly cheaper from Verizon.

How big it feels in the room has very little to do with how well it is viewed from the seating area. Use the math to configure your viewing area, otherwise you may be very disappointed.

If you're interested in full surround experience, you'll need to be in
the middle of the room, not against the back wall. IMO, a 9' viewing
distance is ideal for full surround theater.

A cheap TV, even with 4K resolution will require a bigger screen. Buy a high end Sony, LG or Samsung.

The suggestion of putting up paper rectangles is a good one. I think people often have TVs that are much too big for the rooms they're in. We don't watch a lot of TV but we've had a 44 inch Sony LED one in our house for the last 5 years or so and it's fine. I find watching larger ones to be uncomfortable.

We had the same question a year ago, but went with a 65" Samsung with a Sony soundbar. Love it.

We purchased a good 55" inch Samsung last year after our very old TV died. Sometimes I wish I'd gotten a 65" inch, but that's because I tend to be a person who wants more... I just did the math that Outside Playing shared and found that the 55" is the right one for us. Since we're not the type of folks to buy things like TVs just to have bigger and better, I made sure to get a good TV as it will probably be a long time again before we buy another.

It's true that the sound on the new TVs isn't great, so this year the present was to add a soundbar. We purchased a Samsung and found it extremely easy to sync it with the Samsung TV. Make sure you get a soundbar with a subwoofer. Ours also has Bluetooth. When my husband was out one day I linked it to my cell phone and played Christmas music VERY LOUDLY while I wrapped. Good times!

Go BIG!

lots of great advice! measure for distance and the spot where it will go...i would not want a huge TV if i am sitting close to it (small room).

we have a Sonos sound bar on the 2013 TV, its AWESOME. 2015 TV - Smart TV i s hooked up to Surround Sound speakers and it great!! both are Panasonic's Plasma's

one TV is 50" and the other is 55"...

GO as Big as you can, but again follow the guidelines for distance.

We bought the complimentary Samsung sound bar this year that mates up with our Samsung tv. We have it hooked up with Bluetooth and put it directly behind our chairs and we can hear it so much better than in the front under the TV. We can switch back and forth with the TV speakers if anyone else is here watching TV. We had full surround sound in the previous homes but we didn't want all that. The one soundbar with all in one is just right. We could get a second one to put under the TV to have sound coming from front and back but for now it's fine. Actually our Samsung TV has quite good sound quality directly from the TV.

If you're using the bluetooth feature on the soundbar, and it's behind you, you can activate the TV speakers at the same time for something similar to surround sound.

Soundbars are ok for some, but I wouldn't be interested in watching movies at home with anything less than a full surround system, including Dolby Atmos ceiling speakers.

We had a 42" plasma before and went up to a 55" Samsung smart TV. It took awhile to get use to it. We can't go much bigger because of a window in one wall and a fireplace in the other. We have it in a corner between the two. We have a Bose Soundbar speaker. We tried different speakers and this seemed like the best one. Though I am not that impressed.

Haven't read the other posts... but we recently upgraded our Vizio flat screen to a Sony 65". The picture on the Sony is outstanding compared to the Vizio. So realistic.

This was our Christmas present to ourselves and we love it!!

Sony XBR65X850F 65-Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV (2018 Model)

Don't know why the link didn't attach!!

SONY TV

pudgeder,

My daughter tried a Vizio 65" for their huge entertainment room. Within a week I hung up our Sony 900F and she immediately took advantage of the return window. Today I'll be wall mounting a 65" Sony for her.

BIG DIFFERENCE!

I like the sound quality on our Samsung better than on the Sony. It seems to be significantly better in the low frequency audio range. A 46" screen is adequate for me to view from 12', which falls in line with Outside Playing's formula.

It depends on the level of Samsung and Sony. A $2,500 Sony with 5 speakers and Atmos built in will blow away any Samsung on the market. It even makes some entry level surround sound systems weak.

As for me, I don't listen to TV speakers. I'd be missing all the sound effects.

Ravencajun what model and sound bar did you get?

Thanks everyone for your input. Like the suggestion about going to the store and looking at both 55 and 65 at a distance that we'd have at home.

Not sure why the link didn't attach ---

But today this TV was 100$ less than when we got it in November.

The picture is unbelievably phenomenal!

AMAZON - Sony TV

Our kids got us a sound bar for Christmas... now we need them to come hook it up for us. LOL