So I recently got my first HDTV. I got a much smaller model than I actually wanted because I needed a TV quickly, so I bought a twenty four inch model, and I must admit, I am blown away by how great it is. Now while I have been using an SDTV for, well, all of my life until now, this is not my first introduction to HDTVs as I used a friend's HDTV exclusively (for gaming and watching) for several months, but despite it being probably twice the size of my new TV, it wasn't nearly as high quality in picture quality, or at least it didn't seem so to me.


This brings me to my point here: with SDTVs (anything that isn't 720p or higher) the picture quality suffers after the screen gets bigger than probably 24 or so inches. The colors begin fading and often the image doesn't fit right (though the colors are the biggest issue by far). This often made me want to hook my games up to the smallest screen in the house because despite loving the larger screen the best, the image quality was just too low.

Now my question is, is this the case with HDTVs as well? Frankly I don't see how it could not be since they retain the same amount of pixels. That is, a 1080p television puts out 2,073,600 pixels, so in a twenty four inch TV you have a lot less space between each pixel than you do with a, say, seventy inch TV as the seventy inch TV also has "only" 2,073,600 pixels but a much bigger space to fill meaning one of three things happens: 1. the space between each pixel becomes almost three times greater, 2. each "pixel" is exaggerated to be three or more pixels, or 3. the seventy inch TV uses something akin to OLED technology and adds extra "fake" pixels, or extra pixels that mimic the pixels that they surround.


So to clarify: the question is, if I get a large screen 1080p or 4k TV, am I going to have more washed out color and/or lower definition than I would on a twenty inch TV of the same resolution? I want to hear from anyone who has seen both large screen 1080p or 4k TVs and their small contemporaries (like twenty four inches or smaller small). If so I'll know to buy an OLED model to make up the difference if I get a larger model, and yes, I plan to get a 4K model in case the next set of consoles run at 4k so I don't end up in the same situation I did when they jumped to 1080p and nearly became unplayable on my low res TV.

I'm no expert, so this is all just my opinion. I can't seem to notice any difference in quality between a 32" and a 55" TV (using HDMI, of course). We have both in my house, and both are crystal clear when using anything that supports 720p or higher. If anything, the only difference is the different kinds of TV's themselves. For instance, we have a 55" in the living room, and another 55" in the family room, but one displays color much more vividly and clear than the other, being a different brand and type of TV (one's LED, one LCD, the nicer of the two being more expensive). Both are extremely good quality, but one definitely has an edge over the other (in terms of color display). From what I understand about TV's, as long as the incoming signal is crystal clear, the type of TV you're using is what will make the difference in how it appears. That being said I've never seen anything that's 4K yet, so I can't give any information on that.