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Originally Posted by Tom Gull /forum/post/18243337
I'm kind of skeptical of these statements.
I’m only giving my opinions. But I have done a lot of personal investigation on the subject, both for my own personal video watching, as well as investigating the requirements for various resolutions needed to properly display still images (both print and displayed on screen.) I stand by my opinions.
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Originally Posted by Tom Gull /forum/post/18243337
I think there's a resolution / viewing curve involved and you're coming down on the side of saying he's too far away for the resolution to make a difference.
That’s exactly what I’m saying.
32” 720 TV at approx 9 feet back will look the same as an identical 1080 TV if the only difference is resolution.
Further, I’m not alone with this notion, this is a good read through on the subject. The actual webpage discusses setting up a much larger viewing area, but the numbers and graphs show what is considered as needed for viewing distances and resolutions incorporating “normal” sized TVs up to large screens (long story short, SMPTE and THX suggest that 480p is enough at this particular ratio of screen size to viewing distance.)
http://carltonbale.com/1080p-does-matter
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Originally Posted by Tom Gull /forum/post/18243337
I know 32" seems small by big LCD standards, but we're talking bigger than most huge TVs were 30 years ago (remember when 19" and 25" ones were the biggest you'd find in a living room - OK, remember I'm over 50).
Those big ‘ol 25” TVs of yesteryear where also pumping out only 1/6 the resolution of today’s 1080 TVs. Further, due to the change in aspect ratio, the actual screen space of the “bigger” 32” TVs is only about 1.5x the screen area of the old 25 inchers.
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Originally Posted by Tom Gull /forum/post/18243337
It just seems counterintuitive that a 1080i signal displayed on a 1080i TV would look virtually equivalent to a 1080i signal displayed on a 720 TV, even given the distances and sizes.
That is exactly what the marketing departments of Sony, Samsung, LG and the other TV manufacturers what to hear. It means they are doing their jobs.
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Originally Posted by Tom Gull /forum/post/18243337
The only empirical evidence we have so far is the one poster saying the video underwhelmed him. I don't think we can firmly rule out the TV resolution as a part of that.
As I said, only my opinion, however I wouldn’t be pointing fingers at my TV’s resolution because the video I took didn’t wow me. There are a number of places to look first if a person wants better looking video.
-Suntan