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Post by gato on Feb 10, 2024 8:23:38 GMT -5
Every time I walk into Costco, it seems a new shipment of big/giant/huge flat screen TV's has just arrived. With a few of these things I could probably build a room, using them as walls. I remembered reading somewhere about the optimal size of the screen relative to the distance the viewer watches from. I looked it up again. My 50 inch screen sits 8.5 feet from my lounger, which seems about right. I wonder about the room sizes for 86 inch and larger TV's. Do the owners of these units also sit in the very first row at the movie theater, craning their necks to see the top of the screen? i.postimg.cc/PrQxzHRP/asize.jpg |
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Post by orrk01 on Feb 10, 2024 10:30:10 GMT -5
We also have a 50 inch screen, which is appropriate for our viewing area. Anything larger that that would begin to block our windows. Due to the contempt I have for most TV programming, I would much rather look out the windows than at the TV screen.
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Post by Taildragger on Feb 10, 2024 12:25:24 GMT -5
40", here.
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Post by RufusTeleStrat on Feb 10, 2024 12:58:07 GMT -5
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Post by slacker 🐨 on Feb 12, 2024 16:09:08 GMT -5
Every time I walk into Costco, it seems a new shipment of big/giant/huge flat screen TV's has just arrived. With a few of these things I could probably build a room, using them as walls. I remembered reading somewhere about the optimal size of the screen relative to the distance the viewer watches from. I looked it up again. My 50 inch screen sits 8.5 feet from my lounger, which seems about right. I wonder about the room sizes for 86 inch and larger TV's. Do the owners of these units also sit in the very first row at the movie theater, craning their necks to see the top of the screen? i.postimg.cc/PrQxzHRP/asize.jpg IIRC - a big driver for those distance recommendations were related to the picture resolution. If you got too close, the picture started to look grainy. Also, there is a point where you can't really take in the whole picture at one time, but that's when they get really huge. My son has a 77" and his couch is probably 7' from the TV but it's a brand new 4K HD OLED and it's glorious. That being said, he rarely watches TV. He's into movies and mostly uses it for that. In my "home theater", which is my basement TV with surround sound, etc, (but not a true theater setup as it's in a family room with windows) I have a 55". I would really like to do a 77" like my son's, but there are problems with that. The room has a wall where the TV is that's 28" deep behind the drywall. When we bought it they had a huge rear projection TV built into the wall. It also has cabinets built into the wall for surround sound receiver, blu ray player etc. There are also built in spots for left, right, and subwoofer speakers. I had the rear projection removed and built my own cabinet to fit the opening that has an upper recessed area for a flat panel TV, an opening below that for the center channel speaker and 4 24" deep drawers below that for blu ray and DVD storage. My issue is that anything bigger than a 60" would not fit into the recessed area and bigger that 65" would start to overlap the component cabinets on each side. |
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Post by oldnjplayer on Feb 18, 2024 6:29:49 GMT -5
48 inch tv four feet away works for me. even with glasses on clarity is not great further than that.
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Post by Rick Knight on Feb 18, 2024 8:33:51 GMT -5
I'm still watching my old 40" plasma - currently from about 10 ft away - and intend to continue doing so as long as it works. No idea whether my wife would tolerate a bigger one when that day comes. Maybe it will outlast me.
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