Err I don't know the size of my tv otehr than it's the old SD type and I'm only a few meters away from it from the PC but a few meters more from the bed.
What type of TV do you own and how far do you sit from it?
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24" Sony CRT. A friend of the family gave it to my parents fifteen years ago and I ended up taking with me when I moved out. I sit about 5 ft. (1.52 meters) away.
Of course, that's assuming I bother turning it on. I don't have cable TV, my "rabbit ears" antenna is fussy, and I don't do much console gaming anymore. I get most of my entertainment from the internet and Youtube nowadays. For what it's worth, my laptop's screen is 20" and I sit two feet (0.6 meters) away from it when watching videos.
Of course, that's assuming I bother turning it on. I don't have cable TV, my "rabbit ears" antenna is fussy, and I don't do much console gaming anymore. I get most of my entertainment from the internet and Youtube nowadays. For what it's worth, my laptop's screen is 20" and I sit two feet (0.6 meters) away from it when watching videos.
We have a 32" 1080p TV downstairs, but we only watch SD TV on it, so it is pretty pointless. It is okay though, because it is about 3-4m away from any chair, so we don't really notice. In my room, I have a 23" 1080p monitor on my desk for playing games on, and I sit about <1m away from it. I would like to have a 4K monitor, but having never seen a 4K image before, I really don't see much of a point as 1080p is just fine right now (that and they are hella expensive).
I bought a new TV about 6 months ago, one of my biggest investments, but since it was on a 30% discount, and I had been thinking about getting a new one for quite a while, I think it was worth it.
I'm pretty sure it's a Ultra HD one, can't remember, 55 inch, Samsung, has 3D which works very well (as long as the movie is made for 3D, for example the Lego movie was worthless in 3D while Pacific Rim was awesome) which was a small surprise but I took the risk.
I have never meassured the distance I sit from it, but I'm pretty sure it's between 2.5 - 3 meters, a quick google search tells me that's about 8.2 - 9.7 feet.
It's interesting this with how far away you should sit from your TV.
I heard that they stopped doing this several years ago, I heard that in the mid 2000s the TVs image has got good enought that it doesn't really matter how far away or how close you are to the TV.
I'm pretty sure it's a Ultra HD one, can't remember, 55 inch, Samsung, has 3D which works very well (as long as the movie is made for 3D, for example the Lego movie was worthless in 3D while Pacific Rim was awesome) which was a small surprise but I took the risk.
I have never meassured the distance I sit from it, but I'm pretty sure it's between 2.5 - 3 meters, a quick google search tells me that's about 8.2 - 9.7 feet.
It's interesting this with how far away you should sit from your TV.
I heard that they stopped doing this several years ago, I heard that in the mid 2000s the TVs image has got good enought that it doesn't really matter how far away or how close you are to the TV.
It's not something they are "doing". Your eyes are capable of resolving one point from another point at a distance. In this case, the points are pixels.Guffe said:
Display Resolution is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed.
The more pixels you have the closer they're packed together and the harder it is to distinguish one from another.
So all this math is doing is explaining how close you have to be for a higher resolution to make a difference in the crispness of the screen. From far away, it matters less that there's more pixel density than closer because the eye can't tell the difference.