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Telly behemoths: Does size matter?

VinceH

" it seemed the main obsession in the 1980s was to have a small-screen portable TV that could live in the kitchen or the bedroom"

Any coincidence, do you think, with that being when home computers really took off, and parents might have wanted to watch TV while the monsters wanted to use that Sinclair/Acorn/Commodore/Atari gizmo they'd pestered them into getting for Christmas?

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