Wow those are nice shelves! Did you buy or build them? From where did you get the shelves or the plans?
Third, just for aesthetics, I would prefer more space around the TV (and therefore go with the 65") because the stand is already going to cause a noticeable gap at the bottom of the screen.
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Well...this is America so bigger is always better. :)
Actually, if you've got a place that rents out furniture/electronics, perhaps you could rent a big screen tv for the day (probably just get a 75" vs. 65") and then set it up and see what you think. I suppose you could also cut some cardboard to size just to get a sense of what it'd be like.
For what it's worth, I think 65" would be plenty big enough. I've seen a number of 50" screens and while I wasn't 13 feet away, I still think it'd be quite visible. The one thing I *have* noticed about big screen, high-definition TVs is that older movies can look really odd. There's a "smudginess" to film and TV that hides make-up, lighting and staging that goes very far away in high-def. So while Singing in the Rain is still a great movie in HDTV, Gene Kelly wears a *ton* of makeup and it's quite noticeable.
On the other hand, if it was filmed in high-def, it will look gorgeous.
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I wonder if Singing in the Rain would look less smudgy on the megagiant 75" screen than on the merely giant 65" screen. You're spreading the same number of pixels over more space, so it should be at least marginally lower-res, which should in principle hide some of that makeup.
I wonder if Singing in the Rain would look less smudgy on the megagiant 75" screen than on the merely giant 65" screen. You're spreading the same number of pixels over more space, so it should be at least marginally lower-res, which should in principle hide some of that makeup.
I just put a new 65 in my TV room, and watch at 13'.
unless you've got lots of 4k content, I'd go with the 65. Lack of data scaled up larger doesn't look good.
I recently looked at some old 480 content on the 65" screen, and it looked looked like a 4-year olds finger panting. No sharp edges, lots of blur, hardly any detail.
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Wow those are nice shelves! Did you buy or build them? From where did you get the shelves or the plans?
Third, just for aesthetics, I would prefer more space around the TV (and therefore go with the 65") because the stand is already going to cause a noticeable gap at the bottom of the screen.
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Re the provenance of the shelves: A guy came over, looked at the wall, drew a sketch, and we said "okay, build that".
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Thanks for this. If it's no trouble, I'll be grateful if you can copy/paste it into a comment on the original dreamwidth post here so it will be with everything else when I sit down to reread my entire journal at age 85.
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Well...this is America so bigger is always better. :)
Actually, if you've got a place that rents out furniture/electronics, perhaps you could rent a big screen tv for the day (probably just get a 75" vs. 65") and then set it up and see what you think. I suppose you could also cut some cardboard to size just to get a sense of what it'd be like.
For what it's worth, I think 65" would be plenty big enough. I've seen a number of 50" screens and while I wasn't 13 feet away, I still think it'd be quite visible. The one thing I *have* noticed about big screen, high-definition TVs is that older movies can look really odd. There's a "smudginess" to film and TV that hides make-up, lighting and staging that goes very far away in high-def. So while Singing in the Rain is still a great movie in HDTV, Gene Kelly wears a *ton* of makeup and it's quite noticeable.
On the other hand, if it was filmed in high-def, it will look gorgeous.
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unless you've got lots of 4k content, I'd go with the 65. Lack of data scaled up larger doesn't look good.
I recently looked at some old 480 content on the 65" screen, and it looked looked like a 4-year olds finger panting. No sharp edges, lots of blur, hardly any detail.
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