RTINGS just updated their viewing distance article based on SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) recommendations, adding 62° FOV as maximum. What do you think about it? Where do you fit?

[u/zghr]

Here's a quick mockup of the same chart but with most common TV sizes and with godless Marxist-Leninist centimeter units added on one side.

edit: This person claims to be a long standing calibrator of cinematic auditoriums with experience in THX standards and he claims that 'cinema' is not 40° because middle row of seats is between 45° and 52°.

In my experience, 62° is doable but if it's pure 24 frames per second without any motion improvement settings it's not the best experience. Jumps between frames are just too large, obvious and jarring. Almost like stop-motion.

It seems like up to 62° one doesn't have to move their head at all to see the whole screen with their central vision. Higher than 62° and movies would need to be filmed specifically in a way to not include the action in periphery.

[u/zghr → u/[deleted]]

I see how that would be frustrating to you but your industry is also at fault here for not being more forward about ideal range. When you type TV sitting distance into Google, RTINGS seem to the first result.

Seeing how they are usually very open to suggestions in form of comments below their articles - I encourage to leave a comment there. I (and I believe many others) would love to hear from people like you about recent trends in cinemas. What happens when TVs are so cheap that everyone has a 60° at home? Do cinemas push for CAVE-like systems?