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Originally Posted by Alan Brown
Discussing screen size alone is totally meaningless. What is your seating distance?
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If you don't take this statement into consideration, then any point you try to make isn't really a valid one..........
Alan Brown is absolutely right......
As for the "Chart" that keeps getting posted (and I've posted it myself) it's a good guideline but one must also take into account one's ability to see....... If everyone had exactly 20-20 vision (even people tested at 20-20 are not likely to be exactly 20-20) more "absolutes" could be determined....... although two people with equally proficient eyesight don't always perceive the increased resolution equally....... take the large number of people who say they don't see enough of an improvement in Blu-ray over DVD (and they aren't just bitter etc.... they truly don't see the jump as that big, for one reason or another)
Statements like "50 inch and up you notice the difference" are just silly.....
Sit 20 feet from a 50" 720p and 1080p side-by-side and tell me which is which...... Now compare it to a 720p and 1080p 32" sets from 3 feet away........ you'll notice the difference....
And finally..... to get off my soap-box..... you should be much more concerned with contrast, color reproduction, black-levels, and processing capabilities rather than "lines of resolution"
Not that resolution isn't important, but there are far more important things to it, yet it gets discussed ad-nauseum while the rest is virtually ignored.......
EDIT:
all the points I was trying to make were made while I was typing
