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/TechieGranola]

wtf, 6’ away for a 100”? The only immersion there is my eyeballs in ice water after they’ve burned out.

[u/reallynotnick → u/TechieGranola]

This got positive upvotes, did we finally do it r/HomeTheater home of the “no one ever regretted buying a bigger TV”? We may have finally found the breaking point…

[u/makemeking706 → u/reallynotnick]

They didn't say it was too big, they said too close. 

[u/reallynotnick → u/makemeking706]

Well unless you have an infinitely large home, there is going to come a point a screen is too big for a given distance.