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shponglefan:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 27, 2016, 01:54:06 pm ---It's the same thing with tvs btw, which is why it boggles my mind that home theatres have caught on. A large display is for a large room, where the seats are far back and thus you need to make the image look the same as it would in a smaller room with a smaller tv. Unless you are one of those freaks that sits in the front row (seek help), the image your eye sees sitting somewhere in the middle of a movie house is just about the same size as your tv at home.
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Ah, but the difference is that with a large home theater screen, you can more easily accommodate more seating. The viable seating space gets larger as the screen size increases. You also get a variable screen size if you use a projector as opposed to a traditional TV.

dkersten:
Back in the earlier days of computer gaming when I first went to a 21" crt monitor I found I had to push it back further. When I got my first 24" lcd about 12 years ago, the problem was worse. But games have changed to where more peripheral content is on the screen, which means you can still focus on the action but have that immersion, which means bigger screens add to the immersion factor. Of course that doesn't translate to arcade games, so anything bigger than ~25" (in 4:3, meaning up to 32" in 16:9 with black bars) is just plain too big for close up games.

In theater it is different, especially now with 16:9 and 2.53:1 formats. You WANT immersion - for most of your main field of view being covered by the screen.

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: shponglefan on January 28, 2016, 11:28:53 am ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 27, 2016, 01:54:06 pm ---It's the same thing with tvs btw, which is why it boggles my mind that home theatres have caught on. A large display is for a large room, where the seats are far back and thus you need to make the image look the same as it would in a smaller room with a smaller tv. Unless you are one of those freaks that sits in the front row (seek help), the image your eye sees sitting somewhere in the middle of a movie house is just about the same size as your tv at home.
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Ah, but the difference is that with a large home theater screen, you can more easily accommodate more seating. The viable seating space gets larger as the screen size increases. You also get a variable screen size if you use a projector as opposed to a traditional TV.

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Yes exactly... why would you want to do that? More people around me while I'm watching something means more people that can potentially annoy me. The reason I have a tv is so I don't have to deal with the people in theatres.

BadMouth:
meh, I've progressed to larger TVs in the past few years.

I have a 52" in the bedroom, viewed from about 10ft away.
I have a 70" in the living room, viewed from about 13-14ft away. (it's as big as would fit on the wall between the hallway and open front door)
They feel about right to me, for the distance.

I just wish people would quit hanging them high on the wall like a painting.
Your eyeballs should be level with a mark 1/3 of the way up from the bottom of the screen.
(where the best seats in the theater are)

Now excuse me while I fondly remember watching a floor model TV while laying on the floor. :)

vwalbridge:

--- Quote from: BadMouth on January 28, 2016, 01:17:30 pm ---I just wish people would quit hanging them high on the wall like a painting.
Your eyeballs should be level with a mark 1/3 of the way up from the bottom of the screen.
(where the best seats in the theater are)

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+1

...and I don't understand curved TVs at all. My buddy got one and it looked dumb as hell terrible at side viewing angles.

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