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This guide says 5 1/2' @ 1080p resolution. I'm wondering if it's too close.
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My 96"-wide (NOT diagonal) screen sits 10-1/2 feet from my nose and provides a 42-degree viewing angle. I use an Epson 1080UB projector, and I LOVE the immersion in the movie I feel with that wide a view.So-called hi-def TV does not look as good as images from HD DVDs and Blus, the former having too much motion artifacts to look good.
One thing I love about the accessibility of the projector...
...and its lens-length range is that I can simply zoom Panavision-ratio movies to fill the screen, and they look GREAT. Another delight is being able to zoom football broadcasts to get rid of the useless portion of the screen that's above or below the virtually-always-there game-score line.My last TV was a 67-inch-diagonal single-DLP Samsung. It looked plenty good, but I wanted bigger, so I bought the Epson projector and initially an 80"-diagonal screen. That evolved into the 8'-wide monster I now have and love watching.
Sit close; see a LOT!
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What is YOUR distance? Budget?
I sit 9 or 10 feet away and like 52 inches. I find that 60 inch TVs
show off the limitations of the medium. And, sad to say, I find 42 to be too small to feel like theater.
The TV I watched as a kid in the 50's was 9 inches on the diagonal. My how times have changed.
Really? My largest set is 60 inches and is five years old. I've began thinking about upgrading to 1080p and I can't imagine being happier with a smaller screen and I've been thinking of, at least, 65 inches. Perhaps I don't know what to look for and I'm unaware of the limitations.
-Wendell
I'm refusing to look too closely at the picture on my 110" screen. I don't have the cash for a "suitable" 1080p replacement projector so I'm milking the lowly 720p unit for as long as I can. There's a decision point everytime I have to spend $500 for replacement DLP bulbs....
A lot of TVs have motion artifacts, pixilation. TV and movies have too low
a framerate. The larger the set, the more I notice it. I don't usually notice these problems on a 42. They're not bad on a 50.
They jump out at me on a 60, but then you may have a better set than anything I have seen.
It all depends on the technologies used, quality of video processor in TV/source player and your eyes' sensitivity. I found the early LCDs to be particularly dreadful with pixelation issues but they've gotten much better at it. The more recent LED LCDs have brought the LCD world much closer to the picture I enjoy with Plasmas.
Most artifacts I see I will blame on inadequate channel bandwidth allocation by the satellite provider. This will only get worse as the provider steadily tries to cram more and more HD channels on their satellite broadcasts.
I don't see that but, perhaps, I'm simply used to the display. I still can't imagine going to a smaller screen when it is time to upgrade. I figure if I'm happy with a 60 inch 720/1080i picture. a 65 inch 1080p display will be acceptable.
-Wendell
to get the full effect of 1080p
Here's an old graph I pull out periodically.
Jack
This graph is hogwash. I have a 50" Panasonic plasma, and I sit about 18 feet from the screen. According to the graph, I should not even be able to fully realise the potential of 480, however, 720 Dish network HD material is very noticable. The graph tells me I should not begin to distinguish the difference. And at 59, my eyesight is certainly not better than average.
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If you're much over 40, and sitting fairly close, consider asking your eye doc to prescribe you glasses to help. Especially if you currently wear progressive lenses or bi/trifocals. Or just order a cheap pair online; adding +0.5 diopter to the sphere of both eyes should make viewing at 2 meters feel like looking at a movie screen far away.
It's not really too close, could be a tad farther away. 7' max to even bother with 1080 for a 42-incher, otherwise might as well be 720 or less.
I always say get as close as you can until you can start seeing the individual pixels, then back off a bit. A larger display allows you to back off proportionately more without totally losing the HD resolution.
As I mentioned before, there is a depth you will get out of a hi-res source with a plasma that cannot be measured, this is the icing on it. And as was mentioned by others, I hope you're not neglecting the HD audio. Of course you're not, this may be enough of a BD selling point even if the video isn't...
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