Televisions are always a hot topic for holiday purchases and this year is no different. I was reviewing my Google Analytics numbers for AF-Design this morning and saw the annual spike in traffic to my television size calculator. This calculator is something I cobbled together one afternoon 3 or 4 years ago when trying to determine the amount of space a screen was going to take up. Surprisingly, every November and December, this page becomes one of the most visited pages on AF-Design. This year the spike is a little higher, probably due to the impending digital TV conversion. As such, I’ve created a minor update to the page to include optimal viewing distance for the screen size being calculated. Calculators of this nature are hardly complex to write, but apparently there’s a market for explaining them. Perhaps one day I’ll re-write the calculator to make it more flexible. Until then, enjoy shopping for that new set.