TV size and other dorm questions

<p>Just messing with you matok.
And really in a 10x10 cell, do you think there you’ll have problems seeing the details?</p>

<p>But seriously, the worst thing I saw was people who had really neat rooms with big tvs and other fun stuff only to find their already small room taken over by half the dorm.</p>

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<p>If you have the ethernet cable plugged into the xbox, it will auotmatically shut down your internet service. I don’t even know if you get it back if that happens. That’s why you call tech.</p>

<p>About the TVs, I had a 23 inch screen last year and it was pretty cool and everything. But this year, I’m getting a smaller screen - 19 inch, I think, with a built in DVD player (high tech :slight_smile: ). The smaller screens save a lot of room, especially in a tiny dorm rooms <em>cough</em>Holland<em>cough</em></p>

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<p>Seriously? Any idea why?</p>

<p>Re: the TV. You could put your two chests together on the wall between the windows and put the TV on that. It makes a nice big surface. My daughter got a 26 inch LED/LCD and which is like 25 inches wide. Heck, my son uses a computer monitor that is 24 inches. I’m currently sitting about 8 feet from a 42 inch TV and it doesn’t seem too big. The 32 inch TV might be on the big side for a dorm, but I think it would fit.</p>

<p>I would recommend going with a smaller screen only because the Towers dorms are pretty small. As far as I know, there aren’t any official regulations pertaining to TV size, but you might not want your TV taking up half the room.</p>

<p>There were lots of 26 inch TV’s at move-in. It was really a perfect dorm-size screen. Also, the new LED-LCD’s are really thin and lightweight.</p>

<p>^ 26 inches seems pretty big for a dorm TV, especially in towers.</p>

<p>My wife had a small tv (maybe 12 inch screen) that just went on her dresser. This was before plasma/LCD thin screens, but 26 still seems like it would eat up alot of space.</p>

<p>If you were living in a quad or something that would be different.</p>

<p>True. My son has a little 12-ish inch tube TV and it is fine. But it is square. The widescreen aspect ratio gives a much smaller picture for the same labelled dimention. The viewing area is biggest for a square shape and decreases as the shape gets more rectangular. Just think, you can get laptops with 17 inch screens and that would be too small for a room TV. Anyway, I did see lots of 26-inch boxes moving in.</p>