"Iam big! It's the pictures that got small," wailed Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard, failing to anticipate the horrifying upward trajectory of TV screen sizes, some of which now cover entire living-room walls. Do you really need 88 inches of HDR ultra-high-def 4K to watch Corrie? You do not. And that 4K would do no favours to Norma in her close-up. But while TV pictures and pixel-counts have gone gargantuan, the hardware that supports them is shrinking fast. Not so long ago we surrounded our tellies with VCRs, DVD players, Freeview boxes, digital recorders, satellite dishes and Squarials, and crammed our shelves and cupboards with video tapes and discs. Now all you need is an internet connection.
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