Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/08/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com <http://sonc.com/look/> Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA