History Main / Franks2000InchTV

In RealLife a 2000" TV would be a little over 80 feet (25 meters) high, assuming a 16:9 aspect ratio; the older 4:3 ratio would make it 100 feet (30 meters) high.

* Mentioned in conversation in ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', season 12.
-->'''Tucker:''' If you like [[LaResistance The New Republic]] so much, how come you still charge them for your help?
-->'''Felix:''' Because when I retire, I want a television the size of a billboard.
-->'''Caboose:''' Well, that's gonna be bad for your eyes.

* The Trope Namer is Music/WeirdAlYankovic's song "Frank's 2000-Inch TV," which is entirely about his neighbor getting such a huge TV. This is a good thing if you share Frank's taste in viewing material, and an incentive to move to another town if you don't.

** Until May of 2011, the world's largest video screen was at the Dallas Cowboys stadium, at over 25,000 square feet. (According to their [[http://stadium.dallascowboys.com/assets/pdf/mediaVideoBoardFactSheet.pdf official publicity;]] Wiki/TheOtherWiki calls it a 2100" TV.)

* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' features a large jumbotron in Inkopolis Plaza, on the side of the Inkopolis News studio. This is where players in the plaza can watch periodic updates from Inkopolis News, which provides useful information regarding in-game stages, updates, and events.
** ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' has two such screens in its new HubWorld, Inkopolis Square. The first is on the Deca Tower in the center of the square, while the other is adjacent to it on the side of the Galleria. In addition, several of these can be found in the game's Turf War stages; for example, two can be found above the stage at Starfish Mainstage, while a set of jumbotrons overlooks the central court at Goby Arena.

* Music/PinkFloyd was one of the first bands to use large screens in their concerts, with a circular screen with films rear-projected onto it. The concerts for ''Music/TheWall'' took this UpToEleven, with a crew constructing a wall and projecting films onto that.

* French electronic musician Music/JeanMichelJarre loves to include these in his concerts. That said, nowadays big projection screens have become a standard at big pop concerts. But when Jarre still played gigantic outdoor concerts, especially in TheEighties and TheNineties, he used entire buildings as image, laser and video projection backdrops, including but not limited to skyscrapers in Houston, TX (he actually had the entire skyline illuminated), warehouses at the Docklands in London, the skyscraper quarter La Défense in Paris almost in its entirety, the city hall of Vienna for one single piece of music on a German TV show (then again, said TV show had music guests including Music/MichaelJackson and the very last live performance of Take That before their split) and the Moscow State University, the biggest building in all of Moscow. [[UpToEleven At least some of these are way bigger than 2000"]]. Even when he toured in 1993, he had ten projection screens of various sizes behind the stage which mimicked a skyscraper skyline.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E9SideshowBobsLastGleaming Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming]]", Sideshow Bob appears on a Tyrannovision screen at the Airforce base when forcing Springfield to ban TV. (Yes, [[HypocrisyNod he was aware of the irony]].)
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E17LastExitToSpringfield Last Exit to Springfield]]", Mr Burns gives Homer a tour of his mansion and shows Homer his TV, which according to Mr Burns is [[https://frinkiac.com/caption/S04E17/773488 the largest TV in the free world]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ultimate Spider-Man}}'', the one in Times Square often shows J. Jonah Jameson publicly dissing the Webhead as he passes by. It's as if JJJ ''knew'' Spidey was there.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming", Sideshow Bob appears on a Tyrannovision screen at the Airforce base when forcing Springfield to ban TV. (Yes, [[HypocrisyNod he was aware of the irony]].)

Not related to the [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 TV's Frank]], or the [[Webcomic/{{Chicanery}} 2000 Inch TV's Frank.]]

* Music/PinkFloyd was one of the first bands to use large screens in their concert, with a circular screen with films rear-projected onto it. The concerts for ''Music/TheWall'' took this UpToEleven, with a crew constructing a wall and projecting films onto that.

Note that in real life a screen that is ''too'' large is counterproductive - while the human field of view is nearly 180 degrees without moving the eye or head, the proportion of this that is comfortable to watch fast moving images on is less. It's the same reason that when choosing seats in a cinema people instinctively gravitate towards the middle or back - sitting at the very front is tiring as you constantly have to move your eyes and head to keep whatever action is happening away from the centre of the screen easily visible to you.

* One of the prizes that you can win on the ''Billion Dollar Gameshow'' table, featured in [[VideoGame/PinballDreams Pinball Fantasies]], is a 72"[[note]]This game was released in TheNineties, before Plasma/LCD TVs[[/note]] TV with no commercials.

-->-- '''Music/WeirdAlYankovic''', "[[TropeNamer Frank's 2000" TV]]"

* The TropeNamer is Music/WeirdAlYankovic's song "Frank's 2000-Inch TV," which is entirely about his neighbor getting such a huge TV. This is a good thing if you share Frank's taste in viewing material, and an incentive to move to another town if you don't.

* The TropeNamer is Music/WeirdAlYankovic's song "Frank's 2000-Inch TV", which is entirely about his neighbor getting such a huge TV. This is a good thing if you share Frank's taste in viewing material, and an incentive to move to another town if you don't.

** And with ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'', you can put [[http://mrvorhias.deviantart.com/art/Heavy-Weapons-Breen-147411058 whoever you want in the picture]].

* Mentioned in conversation in Machinima/RedVsBlue, season 12.

*** [[BrickJoke Even later,]] in a blink and you'll miss it gag, they are watching a 30''8''[=" television. Only for it to be advertising a =]3'''12'''".

** Until May of 2011, the world's largest video screen was at the Dallas Cowboys stadium, at over 25,000 square feet (according to their [[http://stadium.dallascowboys.com/assets/pdf/mediaVideoBoardFactSheet.pdf official publicity]]; Wiki/TheOtherWiki calls it a 2100" TV.

** Then Texas Motor Speedway dethroned the one in Charlotte, with [[http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/articles/2013/09/23/nascar-texas-motor-speedway-worlds-largest-video-screen-2014.html a 218 by 94.6 television screen]], nicknamed "Big Hoss". It was finished in time for the April 2014 UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}} Sprint Cup race at the track.

* Too bad for consumers, though; the largest TV available in the market at the moment is a 110" LCD TV from Samsung, topping the former largest, a 108" from Panasonic, by two inches. However, if you take liberties with the word "TV", consumer projector sets can easily project 300" images, and probably bigger with supplementary lenses, location permitting.

* ‘’Series/TheOrville’’ homages Star Trek (as it is want to do) by having the population of a planet obsessed with astrology congregate to view giant screens showing the planetary leader announce the new month and how blessed people born under the new star sign will be.

* In FeliksNetINika series, the alternate-reality Polish Empire never invented [=TVs=]. Why? Because they project the image on *The Moon* and transmit the sound through megaphones.

* They're everywhere in ''Anime/CodeGeass''.

* The telescreens in ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.

* The TropeNamer is Music/WeirdAlYankovic's song "Frank's 2000-Inch TV", which is entirely about his neighbour getting such a huge TV. This is a good thing if you share Frank's taste in viewing material, and an incentive to move to another town if you don't.

Not related to the [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Frank of TV]], or the [[Webcomic/{{Chicanery}} 2000 Inch TV's Frank.]]

* On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', several large screens hover over [[CrapsackWorld Miseryville]], which [[TheCaligula Lucius]] uses to address the public.

* In ''WesterAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming", Sideshow Bob appears on a Tyrannovision screen at the Airforce base when forcing Springfield to ban TV. (Yes, [[HypocrisyNod he was aware of the irony]].)