DIY, Sound and Vision Mag: optimal HDTV screen size
By Matt Burns 
posted Feb 13th 2006 2:41PM
posted Feb 13th 2006 2:41PM
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]
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.
Awesome article, thanks for passing that info on!
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...
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.