TV research
Been thinking of buying a new TV… yeah you know why. Not that my current TV isn’t good, it’s just not HDTV compatible nor do I find it big enough. The picture quality is pretty good but being your typical technology chaser I feel dirty not having a HDTV.
In the process of researching TVs I was thinking that going to buy a 1080P TV would be the best bet since at this time that display’s the largest image but after doing some research it appears that it may be overkill at this point.
I came across this HDTV AV page and a particular paragraph caught my eye. I’ll quote it here, hopefully the plagiarism police doesn’t come kill me:
Cove also discussed the resolution limits of the human eye—about 1mm at 10 feet—and how this affects the optimum screen size for a given viewer. With a 480p, 42-inch (diagonal) set, he argued that you can see all the resolution the set has to offer at 12 feet. Move up to 720p, and you need to reduce the distance to eight feet to see it all. And at 1080p, the optimum resolution distance decreases to five feet. In other words, if the average viewer sits farther than eight feet from a 720p, 42-inch picture, he or she won't see all the detail the set has to offer. If you sit much closer than this, you won't see more real detail. But you may see other things more clearly, such as video noise, artifacts, and the set's pixel structure! The corresponding distances for a 65-inch picture were said to be 12 feet for 720p and eight feet for 1080p.
So I guess that leads me to believe that the amount of extra image the 1080P set displays will be difficult to notice. After reading that I dug further along the lines of considering the 1080P set as a future investment. This page gives some information on “future proofing”.
I was planning on waiting on buying a HDTV until 1080P sets became more common and when someone made a HDTV capture card for your PC so that I could build a TIVO from all the spare PC junk I have lying around. In case you weren’t aware, there currently is no viable way to build a DVR that will record HDTV broadcasts.
In the process of researching TVs I was thinking that going to buy a 1080P TV would be the best bet since at this time that display’s the largest image but after doing some research it appears that it may be overkill at this point.
I came across this HDTV AV page and a particular paragraph caught my eye. I’ll quote it here, hopefully the plagiarism police doesn’t come kill me:
Cove also discussed the resolution limits of the human eye—about 1mm at 10 feet—and how this affects the optimum screen size for a given viewer. With a 480p, 42-inch (diagonal) set, he argued that you can see all the resolution the set has to offer at 12 feet. Move up to 720p, and you need to reduce the distance to eight feet to see it all. And at 1080p, the optimum resolution distance decreases to five feet. In other words, if the average viewer sits farther than eight feet from a 720p, 42-inch picture, he or she won't see all the detail the set has to offer. If you sit much closer than this, you won't see more real detail. But you may see other things more clearly, such as video noise, artifacts, and the set's pixel structure! The corresponding distances for a 65-inch picture were said to be 12 feet for 720p and eight feet for 1080p.
So I guess that leads me to believe that the amount of extra image the 1080P set displays will be difficult to notice. After reading that I dug further along the lines of considering the 1080P set as a future investment. This page gives some information on “future proofing”.
I was planning on waiting on buying a HDTV until 1080P sets became more common and when someone made a HDTV capture card for your PC so that I could build a TIVO from all the spare PC junk I have lying around. In case you weren’t aware, there currently is no viable way to build a DVR that will record HDTV broadcasts.
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