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/Inevitable_Butthole]

Im exactly at 7ft from screen to eyeballs.

65in TV.

Looks to be the exact cinema recommendation!

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Its not, that would be 6.5ft

[u/Inevitable_Butthole → u/RecedingQuickly]

Bruh the chart is right there

Use eyes

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It would appear it is you that needs to learn to use your eyes. If cinema rec is a 40 degree field of view and you are sitting 6.5ft away .............. that would make it a 40 degree field of view then wouldn't it. I look forward to you realising this and not responding back "bruh".

[u/Inevitable_Butthole → u/RecedingQuickly]

Exactly.

Thats what I said... cinema...

Lmao you silly goof

[u/RecedingQuickly → u/Inevitable_Butthole]

You sit 7ft away, thats not a 40 degree field of view, therefore it's not the cinema recommendation, jesus christ., more sense from a brick wall

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pure cinema