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In Reply to: RE: 55" or 65" TV Screen Size and Your Speakers: Please Join Survey posted by Rod M on November 18, 2024 at 20:11:27
hot a horny but wifey and I prefer the newer 4k 75" which replaced a 65". Seating distance about 13'.
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Thanks to all for sharing your TV size experiences with me. Like I did with the 65" mock last weekend, this Saturday night I finished the 55" mock, precisely cut to 1/8" of the Sony A95L specs. I spent much of that night and today placing them in various locations and distances in the room . I've narrowed my chosen locations down to two.One last question: Whether I go with the 55" or 65" I would want the screen to be between 13.5 and 14 ft from my eyes, with the TV between my floor standing speakers and the speakers 10 to 11 ft from me.
At that distance and looking at the center of the 55" mock the entire screen falls within the full viewing area of my eyes. But this isn't so with the 65" mock. Because of this difference I wondering how my eyes would react while watching moving or even stable images on a 65" TV. Wouldn't they be compelled to hunt across the screen a lot more than they would with the 55" screen?
Indeed, for those of you who sit between ~ 8 ft to 11 ft from a 65" or 77" screen, do find your eyes get especially tired from hunting for aspects of images while viewing a screen that big and from that distance? OTOH, everyone's eyes must zoom around the huge screen in movie cinemas, though I haven't been in one for many years, nor probably ever will again, in part for this reason.
But again, don't you guys get some kind of eyestrain if or because your field of vision is overshot by your > 55" or > 65" screen size?
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But again, don't you guys get some kind of eyestrain if or because your field of vision is overshot by your > 55" or > 65" screen size?
No eyestrain. Just a vivid 4k screen. :)
But again, don't you guys get some kind of eyestrain if or because your field of vision is overshot by your > 55" or > 65" screen size?
I ask this because of this supremely relevant post by Dave in Green:
THX recommends a "best seat-to-screen distance" FOV of 40 degrees. But that's based on averages where some prefer greater and some less. An FOV of 50 degrees is more like front row seating at a commercial cinema. Some people prefer that level of immersion while others don't. It would be best to experiment by viewing content with a 50 degree FOV before locking into it as it will create a lot of eye movement that could get tiring when viewing fast moving action content depending on your individual tolerance.
https://www.avsforum.com/threads/would-50-degrees-horizontal-viewing-angle-be-too-much.3006084/
Clearly, screen size vs. viewing distance is largely a matter of 1.) How visually immersed one cares to be and 2.) what kind of content one typically views. For sure, if I were a gamer and/or a big fan of "action" movies, I very likely would get eye fatigue or even headaches with a 65" screen-even at 13 ft. But save for a James Bond film now and then, I'm mostly a fan of film noir genre and other classic and new but fairly slow-moving TV shows and movies. Furthermore, I keep my living room dimly lit, at least for TV viewing, so there may therefore be less risk of eyestrain.
Given these facts, I'll be ordering the 65" Sony A95L this week at Best Buy. I can always exchange it for the 55" within the 10-day trial period, but thanks to Dave in Green's presenting of those crucial facts, after some hours viewing of various BDs from my collection there's at least a 50% chance that the 65" will be the one.
I learned this from at a photography seminar. The guy learned it from an astonomer.
If you tuck your thumb in at arm's length, fingers vertical, you can approximate the Screen's Subtended Angle and match it at home with a different distance/perspective to the TV.
That's now I set up my HT and why I sit closer than everyone else, matching the same image IMMERSION I get at a local Reg. or IMAX theater!
I use the same method there to find the best seat in the real Theater too!
They always match within "reasonable" tolerance.
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It's probably laughable to those here but I don't subscribe to any streaming or even basic cable service. I get news via internet, NY Times, et al.Except for free services like Kanopy, all my movie and vintage TV show content are from Youtube, but mostly from my own collection of 2K BDs and DVDs and those borrowed from local public libraries.
Being a huge film noir fan, OLED is the only way, and everyone also says Sony has the best upscaling for DVDs, which is essential as many of my favorite titles will clearly never see a BD release. So even though I will rarely be viewing 4K content the A95L still seems justifiable.
Where problems lie are with viewing distance. I want to keep my ~ 26" wide Troy Crowe floor standing main speakers 10 ft from me, which means that the TV must be at least a foot behind the front of them.
Would 11 to 12 ft be too far to enjoy my non-4K content?
FWIW, I keep my room dimly lit and will therefore be dialing down the TV brightness.
Note that a 77" TV is not doable since as its width would make proper speaker placement impossible, which will already be challenged by the 65" TV's footprint.
If only I had more space this would have been the one. https://electronics.sony.com/tv-video/televisions/all-tvs/p/xr77a80l
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is not getting the screen too high such that you have to "look up" to see the screen.
It is for that reason I don't like mounts above fireplaces because that puts them too high.
I agree with this. Probably why most of the TV stands are less than 30 inches.
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