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when it comes to scoreboards offensive linemen and TVs the bigger the better correct absolutely all right David Katz Meyer is here our senior editor at C net and television experts I'm Jamie our dog with CBS sports.com so let's go bigger the better especially for football fans when they go to purchase a TV why does size matter the main reason is because with today's HDTV broadcasts they really look spectacular at large screen sizes I say buy the biggest TV you can get into your room and then buy a bigger one because really is unless you're sitting you know really close to the TV screen you're really going to appreciate this exercise you can see details on the field you can read the names you can see when they do close up so the quarterbacks you can see everything so I really appreciate the large screen size especially for sports central alright so your average living room setup what size would you recommend people starting at and working upwards from there I say if you're buying a TV football start at 60 inches and unless you have a really small apartment that's going to be great for immersion you're sitting 8 feet away from 16 TV it's going to look spectacular then go up from there there's 65 70 inch TVs that can really give you an extra impact and again if you have a large room you got the room for it you might as well and you add studio apartments you got dorm room so there are some people to qualify for those smaller TVs but really how big is too big when it comes to certain dynamics again the general rule is 1.5 X you're skating distance if you have like a 60-inch TV you want to sit 90 inches away from it or more sometimes you get a little too close to TV like for example you sit in the front row of movie theater but at home you can always move the couch back a little bit get all your friends in there and see that great big TV and it really does make a huge difference yeah sometimes with certain football fans you just don't need to see things so close like the but fumble with the New York Jets oh we have to bring that I did I'm sorry all right really according to David Katz wire the bigger the better when it comes to buying your TVs you