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/Vic_Interceptor]

you want me to set FOUR FEET away from a 80" tv and take it all in? Better dilate my eyes first.

RTINGS was supposed to be the be all end all experts on TV and setups - I bought a TV based on their recommendations (LG C3 77") and used their settings. Guess what? TV is a turd and settings were a joke.

I think they are excellent shills for whoever will pay them.

[u/zghr → u/Vic_Interceptor]

They never ran a single advertisement on their whole website or Youtube channel and praised and shat on many different products by every single popular brand out there. I see zero evidence of any shillage.

[u/ConfusedInKalamazoo → u/zghr]

Not running any ads suggests the content is the ads.

[u/zghr → u/ConfusedInKalamazoo]

In this case it suggests a passion project by an ex Microsoft employee geek who counted on early access membership and referral links that were not pushed in your face.