[Leica] [LRflex] OT: TVs

[Douglas Barry]

I'm on the Sonny side of the street too, and am biding my time for the 
new year sales, or whatever other offload gimmick hits, before I buy a 
65" with bells and whistles. My wife's sitting position in the room is 
138" away from the screen whereas I'm about 120" away from it. It's not 
that we have a pre-nup, but we don't have much choice as the windows 
take up a fair bit of TV useful wall space.

Like Sonny, I watch a lot of cycling - a relic of my former days doing 
triathlons - and find that you really need detail to distinguish the 
riders from one another, especially in bunch sprint finishes. I tend to 
move closer with a couple of kilometres to go, and sit on the coffee 
table about 3 - 4 feet away which works for me on our 48". That said, 
with the annoying proliferation of screen-in-screen interviews telling 
you things you know already, and the consequential shrinking of live 
action screen space, 65" may not cut it for very long. Of course, as 
some films are also frequently shown letterbox style on my current set, 
a 65" will improve that viewing experience too, assuming the film is any 
good. On that front, give The Grey Man a miss.

Douglas



On 11/08/2022 14:48, Sonny Carter via LUG wrote:
> I don’t think in this digital age that tv is off topic. I demand high
> resolution  in my camera, and my monitors, thus I want to see the tv image
> at a similar quality.
>
> My iPad is larger viewing at 1 foot than my 50” is at ten feet.   There is
> very little 4 k production on Satellite or cable, though increasingly
> available streaming.
>
> When I bought this 50”, I was planning to place it on a table where it
> would be 7 feet away, the arrangement of the room and my wife’s preference
> led to us placing it on a wall mount, view distance 10 feet.  I think I
> would have been at a sweeter spot with a 65” flat screen.
>
> If I had a very large viewing room, then I’d need an 84”, though I would
> not need 8k for sometime.  You buy size according to the viewing space.
>
> I spent a long part of my career in television production, seeking the
> highest quality image available.  I’m not satisfied with SD quality.
>
> I watch sporting events (imagine bicycle racing in HD from rural France
> shot from the back of a motorcycle and beamed over several hops to rural
> Louisiana! )
>
> I watch a lot of news.  It irks me when a network uses an interview done on
> zoom and the guest is obviously using their low rez laptop camera.  Their
> phone camera would do lots better!
>
> I rarely go to a theater for films anymore, and the new genre of streamed
> tv series is really worthwhile entertainment.
>
> I find the image glorious, and I can even cast pictures from my iPad to the
> screen so I can enjoy my images with others.
>
> Not exactly a rant, but I use my tv a lot, so a great image is important to
> me.
>
> SonC
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 7:56 AM Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
>
>> As a technology guy, I see no reason to buy an expensive TV, unless you
>> really NEED or will use the features it offers.
>>
>> The price of these things drops like a rock.  If there are no sources of
>> .source material out there, why buy a high priced 4K dream today?
>>
>> Get a set that fits your room.  Buy the features you will use....
>>
>> I see no use for a 84" TV with an 8K screen.
>>
>> Except bragging rights.
>>
>>
>> Frank Filippone
>> BMWRed735i at gmail.com
>>
>> On 8/10/2022 6:06 PM, Peter Klein wrote:
>>> Can a guy who still watches a 21 inch TV with a picture tube (yeah, I
>> know) find happiness with a 32 inch LCD TV? For movies, we have lately been
>> using my wife’s ~1900 x 1000 computer screen. A 32 inch TV would fit nicely
>> on the stereo cabinet in our living room. We’ve just been on a trip, and
>> the 32 inch TV in the rental house we stayed in seemed big enough, at least
>> watching “character movies“ rather than scenery movies.
>>> I keep reading how to be a really cool kid, you need at least a 65 inch
>> screen with 4K and QLEDs and zone brightness and blah blah blah. I’m
>> honestly not sure how much those features would matter to me. Of course,
>> being a photographer, they might matter more than I think. But a bigger set
>> would totally dominate our small living room, says my wife. We sit about
>> 8–10 feet from the TV.
>>> Those of you who have been through this process, what do you think?
>>>
>>> -Peter
>>>   From my phone with tiny keys and slightly addled voice recognition------
>>> Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at:
>>>      http://lrflex.furnfeather.ca/
>>> Archives are at:
>>>       http://www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Leica Users Group.
>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information