tbarnes@Teknowledge.COM (Terry A Barnes) (02/27/90)
In article <1990Feb26.215623.9194@imax.com> dave@imax.com (Dave Martindale) writes: > [...] >NTSC television is intended to be viewed from a distance of about 10 >times the picture height. [...] Is this true - I've read articles with varying ideal measures of how far the eye should be from the screen - 5 times the diagonal, 8 times the height (which is almost the same thing), >6 times the diagonal, etc. Does anyone have a definitive answer? What are the effects of closer viewing - eye strain, visible scan lines, what? I'm tempted to get a 30+ inch monitor when I upgrade, but what if the couch is only 10 feet from the screen - would I be sorry I got a "too big" screen? Terry Barnes INTERNET: tbarnes@teknowledge.com USENET: {hplabs|sun|ucbvax|decwrl}!tbarnes%teknowledge.com HARDCOPY: Cimflex Teknowledge, 1810 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303 PHONE: (415) 424-0500 x416 -- INTERNET: tbarnes@teknowledge.com USENET: {hplabs|sun|ucbvax|decwrl}!tbarnes%teknowledge.com HARDCOPY: Cimflex Teknowledge, 1810 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303 PHONE: (415) 424-0500 x416