Where should we put the tv?

the new sound system arrives...which now has the big (but not huge) tv (36" I think) perched on top of it...dwarfing that part of the living room (which is officially called the receiving room)...in the US, bourgeois interiors tend to conceal tvs and or hide them away in their own special room...the home theatre thing is class coded low....is this pretentious?... as if, against all the realities, civilised life were lived out of range of the media.......I dont like to watch tv much myself, but when I do its best to be comfortable...and anyway it's a social thing, tv.. .bad as it is, it's a better bet than conversation, often.