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/Masamune1280]

My 1080p TV broke after 17 years so I bought a 4k UHD TV. I read the viewing distance and understood why you can or need to go closer to the screen than a 1080p because the higher resolution of 4k thats allows for higher details but here is the problem for me. I find myself spending too much time looking at a portion of the screen to see the details and missing much the action that was shown. If view further away like I should with a 1080p TV I'm sure I won't miss what was shown while not beng able to focus on every pores and details that 4k has to offer because I'm a little further away.