At a distance of watching television and the screen position in the home theater
Optimum size of the TV screen is directly related to the distance available for viewing – but there are also other factors must be considered.
Distance from: E 'simply a matter of personal taste?
Sit too close to the TV to the big screen and see the image storage structure – scanning lines or pixels forming the image – thus distracting your attention and enjoy your home theater experience. But sitting too farand the effect is lost.
There are different opinions on how best to determine the optimum viewing distance for a television special. Just go to the movies and soon you will realize that everything is a matter of personal preference – some sitting in the back. Others would go to the front line because they prefer the larger screen and a broader perspective, while others would simply choose randomly located halfway between these extremes.
TheThe truth is that there is no scientific rules her. This does not mean that there are guidelines that you should follow when planning a purchase or a so-called big-screen home theater room.
SMPTE Recommendations and the THX certification standards:
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) recommends that the screen size for the home theater should occupy a 30-degree field of view – horizontal – for the public. Alternatively, the idealTV viewing distance should be such that the width of the screen makes an angle of 30 degrees to the upright position.
These were 30 degrees of viewing angle seems to have adopted widely regarded as the standard for home theater and cinema.
SMPTE directive is also consistent with the THX certification that the standards recommend that the last row of seats must have at least one angle of 26 degrees, and the defenders, then an optimal viewing angle of 36 degrees.
ItIt is believed that, within these limits is a better perspective the viewer to get lost in the action movie itself.
Vision System limitations:
There is also the issue of television viewing distance visual acuity. This is not the optimum viewing distance – but it refers to go to the maximum distance of a few details about the image is lost.
Technically, the visual acuity is a measure of 'eye and shows the spatial resolutionangular size of the smallest detail that can solve a visual system. A person with 20/20 (or 6 / 6 when expressed in meters capable of solving) normal vision of a spatial configuration, to a minute to tell the angle of an arc degree 1/60th evident when the eye appear at 20 meters. In other words, a normal person 20/20 vision can identify an object with a height of 1.76 millimeters to 20 feet is capable.
In the field of television at a distance, representing the numberSome monitors will not be solved by the viewer of the vision system.
So how to translate this into practice?
Some rules-of-thumb to help put into practice the guidelines above. The rules of viewing distance to screen width, not in diagonal screen and then apply for both 4:3 and 16:9 display formats.
A general rule for TV viewing distance of the SMPTE and visual acuity is based guidelines is thatTV display minimum distance between you and your big screen TV should be limited, about twice the width of the screen (more precisely 1.87 x screen width for a circular circumference angle of 30 degrees), while the greater distance, not more than five times the width of the screen.
This rule should give you a good approximation of the distance from the TV screen. Is not necessarily the perfect home theater viewing distance, but the limits within which the TVViewing distance should theoretically area of unrest.
In other words, the lines more than twice the width of the size and image scanning, paragraphs and other video artifacts will be visible too intrusive – that spoil the distractions that you will be film. They continue to move away than 5 times the width of the screen and the vision system will no longer be able to resolve every detail of the image.
But …
It 'also important to recognize,these distances the display of maximum and minimum should be considered in light of the definition video signal.
A fully resolved the HDTV (1080i, 1920×1080) supports a greater distance than standard analog television viewing. Thus, while twice the width of the screen is just perfect for TV viewing in high definition, would be a bit 'too close for standard TV, in the case of three times the width of the screen is the best choice.
Five times the screenWidth as the maximum visibility, while more than adequate for a TV standard analog image is a bit 'too much for a person to support in every detail of an HDTV picture – three or four times the width of the screen and showed a practical limit to The maximum distance in the case of HDTV.
These rules work better with the thumb in wide-screen television in the range of 42 inches or more.
If it is similar to use in full-size standard definitionTVs in home theater, ie up to 36 "/ 40" diagonal, the optimum viewing distance is between 8 feet and 12 feet. TV under 36 inches are not big enough to have qualified for use in home theater, its small screen size is not the desired effect on the viewer.
Vertical viewing angle and height of the screen:
For optimal viewing of the eyes of the viewer who must be at the center of the screen.
The maximum angle of view vertical: At homeConfigurations theater where this is not possible to beat the SMPTE guidelines, the maximum angle vertically to the top of the projected eye sitting on the seat of the middle row can be measured less than 35 degrees.
This charge does not represent the optimum viewing angle, but the boundary that are subject to the spectator, an increase of the neck.
The maximum vertical is still very far from the front row, because they areAngle.
Minimum angle: Although it does not seem to be a specific SMPTE or THX guidelines in this area, but studies have shown that when the screen size takes less than 15 degrees vertical field of view, the viewer that little image is displayed.
Practical Considerations:
In a scenario as home-cinema up, you do not really need to do or the angle of the vertical utmost care, not even the minimum requirements for the vertical viewing angle ofExperience Cinema efficient.
If one of the recommended TV viewing distance of twice the width of the screen to keep (as detailed at the top of the Directive SMPTE 30 degrees horizontal field of view), it could automatically respond to the smallest angle. The reason is that there is a fixed ratio between the height and width of your home theater aspect ratio 16:9 or 4:3.
And still more: in a typical houseSetup Theater, would be very difficult, the maximum vertical angle from which you are subject to a cross around her neck caused an increase.
Considering that most home theater rooms are approximately 10 feet (3m) high, the vertical viewing angles arising from well below the normal limit of 35 degrees in the detailed guidelines SMPTE – everything you need to do is in the guide screen twice the width of your eyes to remain outside.