How big do you want your TV screen to be?

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I can remember the time when a TV was a modest little box that sat in the corner of the room and behaved itself. The screen size was limited by the fact that the picture was projected via a cathode ray tube and displayed as a series of constantly repeated lines - first it was 405 lines then things got better with 625 lines. When digital display came along, the screen could get bigger - and bigger - and bigger! The largest screens available today can be 100 inches across - that's 8 feet or 2.5 metres! You can go to a multiplex cinema and watch a film on a smaller screen than that! But do you really want a monster like that in your living room? I can see how it might be appropriate in a pub or club, where they want to show football matches to a roomful of people, but in your home? My two silly questions would be - 1. Where do you put the Christmas tree so that you can also watch the TV? 2. Where do the bookshelves go? Of course, that second question is really silly - it's only old fuddy-duddy retired librarians like me who worry about bookshelves!