Sound and Vision Mag: optimal HDTV screen size
Americans love big
TVs. It's just in our nature and now that the HDTV is here, we have a great excuse to put that 60-inch set in our
living rooms. Sound and
Vision has a couple of charts that allow you to plot what size HDTV will be just right for you space. Just like we
mentioned in our buying
guides a few months back, it all has to do with what you watch. You can buy a huge HDTV, but if you put SD on it,
you'll need to sit farther back to see the detail. Likewise, if there is a 1080i picture on your screen, you'll want to
sit closer to it then if it was just 720p. There is a point where you just can't tell the difference between 720p and
1080i and they even have a chart showing that too.[via digg]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Chodite @ Feb 13th 2006 4:37PM
The HD Olympics feed on UHD (Universal HD) on Comcast looks 100x better than the NBC HD feed. I watched a hockey game on UHD and it was beautiful. I flipped to primetime snowboarding on NBC HD Sunday night and it looked like crap. Weird.
Brandon @ Feb 13th 2006 11:12PM
Awesome article, thanks for passing that info on!
Darren Johnson @ Feb 14th 2006 12:19AM
You should also check out the article on Control4 in that issue of Sound & Vision. Just got a system and the stuff is awesome! Controls my lights, distributed audio & (HDTV) home theater system...
Jason @ Feb 14th 2006 12:47PM
Not really that useful, when you consider that the screen-door effect (plasma, lcd, etc) is more of a factor than the things they talk about.