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- solaniisrex, on 06/06/2009, -2/+251My 52" 1080p TV is in Illinois and I'm sitting in Afghanistan. Is this too far away?
- inactive, on 06/06/2009, -1/+249So my up-converting vcr was a waste?
- bumcheekcity, on 06/06/2009, -17/+185"Just the right distance"?? ***** off, I'll sit however far away I want from the TV and it'll look just great, thankyouverymuch.
- binky78, on 06/06/2009, -0/+159I used to have 20-15 vision then I had my laser eye surgery, now I can see through the TV
- diggyduggle, on 06/06/2009, -0/+109I got a 46" 1080p LCD a few years ago. I sit around 5 feet away from the thing,
Honestly, my Pc is my only 1080p device (360 doesn't technically count). As much as I love this monitor, i bet i could have gotten away with a 720p set and had more cash in hand after the fact.
Article should have ended with, "Guess what? Many of you wasted money on Monster cables for your hdtv" - FTWmovin2canada, on 06/06/2009, -9/+108Allow me to fix your car analogy. One car costs $30,000 and is mechanically capable of 140 mph (720p), the other costs $40,000 is mechanically capable of 170 mph (1080p). Both are electronically limited to 100 mph (because of how far away from the screen you sit).
You are spending $10,000 on something that it is technically capable of yet you will never actually utilize. - algaeturd, on 06/06/2009, -32/+130Welcome to 2009.
Something obviously went really wrong along the way.
This is it? This is what we've come to? ***** articles talking about how far away from your TV you're supposed to sit to make sure you get maximum viewing detail pleasure?
This is ***** retarded. Period.
I have a 1080p HD tv. I sit more than 6 feet away from it and it looks pretty ***** perfect.
Especially compared to the black and white 18" set with rabbit ears setup that was standard when I was growing up.
Again, this is just straight up ***** retarded and people who buy into this ***** have rocks for brains.
Looks good to you? Looks clear to you? Sounds good?
Sit back and thank your hairy balls that you're not watching the piece of ***** TVs that were once standard in the 70s. Better yet, be grateful that you're not gathered around the ***** radio listening to staticy ***** radio shows about cowboys and ***** like your grandparents used to do.
Jesus H...and the author is trying to rub peoples' faces in it? Kill yourself. Please. - EarthBoundX5, on 06/06/2009, -3/+97not if your kicking terrorist ass
- DelSolMan, on 06/05/2009, -25/+98Walk into an electronics store and see how many 720p sets are available. I don't see it as wasting money. It's like buying a 2009 car vs a 2007 car.
- inactive, on 06/06/2009, -3/+75Holy crap your penis must be huge.
- jemka, on 06/06/2009, -1/+72Yeah, you should have bought Betamax.
- burningrobot, on 06/06/2009, -0/+61I only bought my hdtv to get better quality while playing SNES.
- proliance, on 06/06/2009, -9/+62I have 20-15 vision since I had my laser eye surgery a few years ago.
I sit farther away because I can. - Dougman82, on 06/06/2009, -4/+56I guess you're not part of the article's target audience.
- sevenalive, on 06/06/2009, -6/+50Newflash: 1080i is actually worse than 720p. Look into it if you don't believe me. Stick with 720p mode if ya can.
- Nonyaz, on 06/23/2009, -6/+47I have a 92" 1080p projection system, I can see pixels from 9ft back!
- mianos, on 06/06/2009, -3/+43Missed the whole point. That point was 720, based on the science of the resolution of the eye, looks the same from most people's viewing distance. The article is not comparing TV to B&W CRT or grandma's radios. You want to spend much more money than you have to, go for it.
- damian001, on 06/06/2009, -22/+61This argument is as useful as saying I wasted money on a car that can go up to 120mph although the speed limit here is 65 mph. Watching my 42" HDTV is way better than my old 26" TV. I can already notice the higher color and quality. Buried because it really isn't wise to make the Digg community feel ashamed for investing in a $1000 TV
- damntourists, on 06/06/2009, -8/+43guess what? many of you wasted money on tv, period.
- saltydawkins, on 06/06/2009, -2/+32Good lord!! That would put me into the dreaded "Don't sit so close to the t.v., you'll go blind" zone that Mom constantly warned me about!!
- guyincognitoo, on 06/06/2009, -0/+30Like anyone here wouldn't do that if they had a 92" TV.
- inactive, on 06/06/2009, -1/+28I sit about 8 feet from my 720p 42" LCD, and I can already see every goddam pore on House's face... I don't need to see inside of the pores.
- mandraque, on 06/06/2009, -0/+26vaginas the size of your car!
- EarthBoundX5, on 06/06/2009, -1/+25quit bragging and go masturbate to your 92" porn
- marcushellberg, on 06/06/2009, -3/+26The reason I like 1080p is that there is actually video with a 1:1 pixel ratio, unlike most "720p" TVs that are 1366x768. Displaying 720p material on most "720p" TVs will always lead to stretching. Besides, setting up a display with a width not divisible by 8 is a pain in the ass on most computers.
- Macintoshreader, on 06/06/2009, -4/+25I don't know why people are burying your comment. You're right.
1080i is actually 540p at any given second because of interlacing. - Shazbuckle, on 06/06/2009, -2/+22Ever heard of blu-ray
- chuckerton, on 06/06/2009, -1/+20You must be a ***** blast to have over to watch football.
- sevenalive, on 06/06/2009, -1/+19Blasphemy!
- friendlykiller, on 06/06/2009, -1/+19Wow all I read here is the average person trying to prove their vision is the best and that they havn't made a mistake in buying their tv sets as an impulse by researching the best option for visual clarity.
It also seems that people are no longer interested in the perfect average 20/20 vision but now want to go further and say they're all in the top 1% of people with their 20/15 or 20/10 vision...
Truthfully you should realise the average person doesn't want to sit that close to their TV. They want to have their TV in the focus region of their vision (high retinal density) which is why they sit back from it. If you want to go for large living space, then a high definition TV that is large (so you can sit back from it) is perfect. Without anylising it, I decided that my set would be fine as 42", it is 1920x1080 and supports up to 72fps and in feet, I sit around 15 from it. It has always appeared to me to be much more detailed than my old set (a 19" CRT tv of the PAL format) and I also have the brightness turned very far down. As a person with high sensitivity to light (bright lights make me nausious and dizzy). I set this up though without very much considering any mathematics behind it, rather just what I saw in the stoor (how far I stood from the TV and which looked the best to my vision)
Don't rely always on these reviews and rather on what you see as best - Most of our eyes vary greatly and a tiny proportion of us have highly accurate vision. Most have blurry vision and don't be ashamed, you're only normal.
You also want to be careful not to have your eyes fixed too much time on something at a certain distance especially if you are squinting to do it. This can be very difficult to reverse. Unless you are an American and not afraid to put machinery lights on your eyes (lasers) - dafragsta, on 06/06/2009, -0/+17Man, once the last of the tube TVs die, people are going to miss the CRT look and how scan lines added to the charm of playing classic video games.
- seinman, on 06/06/2009, -1/+18@Macintoshreader:
You aren't taking the horizontal resolution into account. At 720p, you're seeing 55.3 million pixels per second. At 1080i, you're seeing 62.2 million pixels per second. You're losing a little vertical resolution (180 pixels, or 25%), but gaining a lot of horizontal resolution (640 pixels, or 89%). In the end it's a matter of preference: do you want a smaller image refreshed more often, or a larger image refreshed less often? The answer depends on each viewer's personal preference. - mandraque, on 06/06/2009, -2/+19with your laser eye?
- Mustangarrett, on 06/06/2009, -0/+16Just a fun fact... although we all realize your comment was in jest, Hi Definition VCRs do exist.
http://hometheater.about.com/od/vhsvcrs/a/dvhsvcrs ... - Jagdelysian, on 06/06/2009, -8/+24A TV is a pretty terrible investment no matter what. You'll never get your money back, much less make anything with it.
- Ahnteis, on 06/06/2009, -2/+18>>Why would you run 1080p on 22"? 720p looks much better until you cross the 40" mark.
So you run your 22" monitor at 1280X720 instead of 1650X1080? (Realizing that's not quite 1080p, but you get the idea.) - lisaawesome, on 06/06/2009, -0/+16I bought an 80 dollar 23 inch CRT at WalMart almost 7 years ago. Clearly I have the coolest TV here.
- MrSkills, on 06/06/2009, -0/+15My mum when I explained HD to her:
"I don't need that. My HD is when I put my glasses on!" - Macintoshreader, on 06/06/2009, -1/+16That myth is older than the internet and was debunked years ago.
- Jeepinator, on 06/06/2009, -0/+15So many people don't know what an "investment" is. You invest in something hoping for a good return. This return can be in the form of money, emotional satisfaction, blow jobs, etc. To some people a nice TV/Home Theater set up may be an investment as the satisfaction they receive from it may be greater than the initial monetary cost.
- leif77, on 06/06/2009, -4/+18A terrible investment, unless you love movies and want to invest in something that will display them to you in the best way currently possible. I spent a grand on a guitar and I play it every day and enjoy the ***** out of it... Just because I'll never get that 1000 dollars back means it was a bad investment? Some people are passionate about certain things and want the best they can get.
- leif77, on 06/06/2009, -3/+17What he was getting at is that all the stores only carry 1080p sets or far *****... I haven't seen a 720p in a while...
- Dougman82, on 06/06/2009, -0/+12It also depends a great deal on the content you're watching. If it's fast-moving action, 720p will definitely be crisper than 1080i. If you're watching stuff like talk shows and sitcoms, where the bulk of the screen stays static for extended periods, you're not really going to notice that it's interlaced.
- topgigmedia, on 06/06/2009, -1/+12I pin my nose right up to my CRT TV and love feeling the ions melting my brain thru my eye sockets to the sounds of the Archie Bunker theme.
- whiledo, on 06/06/2009, -0/+11What if he's teaching English?
- twomeyw23334, on 06/06/2009, -0/+11Same is true with girls. If you put a mirror 6 feet away from your bed the reflected image looks like it's 12 feet away. Then when you're getting it on you can watch your reflection and there is no benefit to having a good looking girl at such a distance. As for my 1080p TV, I put my chair 6" away from the screen so I can see all the pixels.
- Thorpe, on 06/06/2009, -4/+15Douches?
- Charlie1er, on 06/06/2009, -0/+11Monster cables = biggest rape of 21st century
- TheCheeks, on 06/06/2009, -5/+15Doesn't surprise me at all. People love the buzz words like 1080p but have no idea what it means.
- ryanonfire, on 06/06/2009, -0/+10Just pay for advertising you cheap bastard!
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