- Sit about 2 screen widths away. So a 3.5 foot (40 inch) screen sit 7 feet away.
To raise home video to the level of home theater a larger image FOV is required. THX recommends no less than a 26 degree FOV for the back row in a movie theater and 36 degrees as optimal. The SMPTE recommends a minimum of a 30 degrees.
source: HDTV Magazine - HDTV Forum - View topic - Waveform 03 Viewing Distance
Facts you can do nothing about:
- Mosquito Noise, Jaggies, Posterization, motion blur, motion blockyness, Dropouts.
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Motion compensation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - The image elements in motion would tend to break up into non-coherent noise, call "mosquitoes." This noise, at a distance, resolves itself to the human eye as a loss of resolution of the image edges. Also, the motion elements would tend to "smear," the faster the motion, the more the smear. If the bit starvation were severe, the image would break up into blocks. HDTV Magazine - Ed's View - Are We Being Ripped Off?
- If you don't want to buy a Blu-ray player today, even an ordinary DVD player is a wonderful source to watch on a huge HDTV.HDTV Source Material
- How much compression is used? 90% of the original image is missing in the final image!
The quality issue depends on how it is produced (What format), how it is transported to us (How much compression) and How much compression we transmit it in. For PBS if the typical program was produced in HD at 1.2gb it will be compressed to 256mb for recording, recompressed for distrubution at 18mb, and then we will un compress it to base band and recompress it to about 13mb. So thats 1.2gb to 13mb. You just got rid of about 90% of the information. Then your home set converts the signal to the native format of the monitor where you could loose more resolution. Some networks distribute it at 45mb, that really helps the quality but the satellite time doubles so it is very costly and PBS is a non profit organization, so every dollar counts.
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