Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation 1 Feb 03, 2009 2:24 pm Hi all,
Not that there are any 100" Plasmas with affordable prices now, but in the long run. How far should I be sitting from it to be able to have a decent viewing angle ? I'm only asking because I'm building a house and it seems that the Rumpus can be adjusted into whichever size I want. Thanks P.S. The default size is meant to be 4.5 x 3.9m. Re: Sitting distance from a maximum of 100" Plasma ? 2Feb 03, 2009 6:02 pm 3.4-4.7m distance from screen would be the best viewing angles.. with 3.4m being the angle with the most immersive cinema experience. Re: Sitting distance from a maximum of 100" Plasma ? 3Feb 04, 2009 7:06 am I concur, Wakeboardandy's suggested range is pretty good. A viewing distance of around or just under 4m is about right for a 100" 16:9 screen.
But I don't think I'd ever buy a plasma to get a screen size that big, not when you can do it easily and for so much less money with a projector. Re: Sitting distance from a maximum of 100" Plasma ? 4Feb 04, 2009 10:23 am I'm in a similar situation. I have a 4.4m long room but with the couches and chairs in I'm guessing I'll actualy be sitting 4m from the screen. Is it possible to have 110" without being too big or should I just get a 100" screen?
Also at what distance should a Epson TW2000 be from the screen to get 100" or 110" ? Thanks! - Sorry to kinda hijack the thread a bit though! Re: Sitting distance from a maximum of 100" Plasma ? 5Feb 04, 2009 11:33 am Rodda But I don't think I'd ever buy a plasma to get a screen size that big, not when you can do it easily and for so much less money with a projector. How good are Projectors ? I've seen many of them in Harvey Norman and many display homes and colours/contrast don't seem to encourage me to pay $5k for them. How do you compare the crisp and clear quality of Plasmas (or even LCDs) to Projectors ? Thanks Re: Sitting distance from a maximum of 100" Plasma ? 6Feb 04, 2009 1:10 pm If you really want to know what a projector is supposed to perform like then don't bother with department stores like Harvey Norman or electronics supermarkets like JB HiFi. You need to go to a genuine home cinema specialist shop (even The Big Picture People struggle to fit into this category...) where they have properly setup demo rooms/cinemas and actually know about the gear they are selling.
As an example, Carlton AV (in Lygon St Carlton) have a very good demo room, are passionate about what they do (as am I) and certainly can give you a good look at a decent projector running (they love DLP). It's guys like this who like what they do so much that they truly believe this stuff can enhance your like as much as they believe it has their own, and it's obvious once they start talking to you about it (a philosophy and work ethic I share - a big reason why I like them...). In my experience they are more than happy to give a good demo of their gear. Re: Sitting distance from a maximum of 100" Plasma ? 7Feb 04, 2009 1:13 pm Only sitting 4m back from a 110" screen may be pushing it a bit. 100" is a no-brainer though - it would certainly be comfortable (you don't want a screen that's too big because you start to loose bits of the image you're watching outside your frame of vision and pysically have to move your eyes/head to see it all....) Re: Sitting distance from a maximum of 100" Plasma ? 8Feb 05, 2009 11:05 am Rodda If you really want to know what a projector is supposed to perform like then don't bother with department stores like Harvey Norman or electronics supermarkets like JB HiFi. You need to go to a genuine home cinema specialist shop (even The Big Picture People struggle to fit into this category...) where they have properly setup demo rooms/cinemas and actually know about the gear they are selling. As an example, Carlton AV (in Lygon St Carlton) have a very good demo room, are passionate about what they do (as am I) and certainly can give you a good look at a decent projector running (they love DLP). It's guys like this who like what they do so much that they truly believe this stuff can enhance your like as much as they believe it has their own, and it's obvious once they start talking to you about it (a philosophy and work ethic I share - a big reason why I like them...). In my experience they are more than happy to give a good demo of their gear. Hey Rodda, Just curious, what's your opinion on DLP's? I am not a fan of them myself as I always get the 'rainbow' affect when I watch movies on them. I purchased one a few years back in Canada and had to quickly upgrade it to a LCD projector because the rainbowing was so bad. (i.e. when you see a white object going across screen, track it from left to right quickly). Nav Re: Sitting distance from a maximum of 100" Plasma ? 9Feb 05, 2009 12:33 pm I love DLP. Neither Matt nor I have ever seen the rainbow effect (yet one of our mates does). I prefer the naturally better 'closeness' of the pixels (vs the 'screen door' effect of LCDs - not including the Pana), and the naturally better blacks. DLP is also supposed to have a slight edge in richness of colour saturation as well.
There's really only 2 main reasons for when I occasionally recommend an LCD projector over DLP: when the room isn't long enough for you to fit a DLP projector in to fill the screen size you want (DLPs almost always have longer throw distances than their LCD rivals), and when you can detect and don't like the rainbow effect. Re: Sitting distance from a maximum of 100" Plasma ? 10Feb 05, 2009 6:11 pm My uncle had DLP but it had 3 globes so not sure if rainbow effect is different on single globe DLP's.. but I might go and check out Carlton AV when the time comes and see which looks better to me. If the rainbow effect doesn't effect me then that sounds like the way to go but I guess I will find out soon enough..
I don't like LCD's TV's much for the blurring you get with fast moving sport like AFL, so not sure if that happens also with LCD projectors. Thanks Rodda for recommending Carlton AV.. sounds like a good place to visit! Also Rodda.. what distance from screen would you need for a good DLP you recommend to throw a 100inch scope screen, so about 80inch 16:9? Re: Sitting distance from a maximum of 100" Plasma ? 11Feb 06, 2009 6:53 am For me, I blame my friend for telling me 'exactly' how to see it. He asked me to watch one movie, and gave me a specific time of the movie to watch, and told me how to view the screen, after that i've been seeing the rainbow affect. I think the higher end DLP projectors come with better color wheels so the affect is removed but atleast when I was looking, i was going to end up paying nearly 4-5 times the cost for the higher end DLP's.
If you do see the rainbow affect, in my opinion, theirs no way to not be bothered by it, you never see whites but rather a rainbow color all the time. I will have to go and see the later DLP's to see if i still get affected by the rainbowing. I did prefer picture quality on the DLP's to the LCD's (minus the rainbow). Re: Sitting distance from a maximum of 100" Plasma ? 12Feb 06, 2009 8:02 am The different projectors each have their own specific lenses, so you will need to decide on, or at least make a short list of the projectors you are interested in then go to their web sites and use their 'Projection Distance Calculators' to work out how far back the projector needs to be to fill a certain screen size.
Projector Central's web site has a calculator on it that's supposed to cover many brands an models, and a link to that calulator has been posted in this section of the forum many times... pict ratio? 13Feb 27, 2009 4:58 pm Hi all,
currently have 2 x 50 inch plasmas but am soon starting on cinema room which will have projector my question to you all i think all all most blurays i have watched are in 2.43:1 ratio? when buying a screen for cinema room is it adviseable to purchase a motorized and only extend to fill as required? or are thear projectors available that are in 2.43:1 i know you can buy those lens that convert to fill a 16.9:1 but seem a bit pricey. I would prefer a fixed screen any sugestions? Thanks Re: Sitting distance from a maximum of 100" Plasma ? 14Feb 27, 2009 5:04 pm yeah you can get scope screens and you can get projecters that have automatic zooming to watch it.. but then you will have bars at the left and right of the screens when watching 16:9 stuff.
For me I watch more TV and sport then I do movies, so 16:9 makes sense for me.. but if you watch more movies then scope is a good option. Re: Sitting distance from a maximum of 100" Plasma ? 15Feb 28, 2009 9:16 pm I've said this before in another thread here. For me it's quite simple - all of today's decent Home Cinema projectors are natively 16:9, and anything they show that is not they simply 'reduce' their projected image to suit (either by blacking out rows of pixels top and bottom or columns of them on the sides).
All HDTV is 16:9, as is (bloody should be anyway) most SD digital TV. Get a 16:9 screen. Anything else is a excercise in unwanted brain strain... Re: Sitting distance from a maximum of 100" Plasma ? 16Feb 28, 2009 10:16 pm Even the last bastion of 4:3 TV, cartoons, are all moving to 16:9 now.
The newest season of the simpsons just started in the US is 16:9 now too. So basically, all new programming is 16:9. Re: Sitting distance from a maximum of 100" Plasma ? 17Feb 28, 2009 11:13 pm Rodda I've said this before in another thread here. For me it's quite simple - all of today's decent Home Cinema projectors are natively 16:9, and anything they show that is not they simply 'reduce' their projected image to suit (either by blacking out rows of pixels top and bottom or columns of them on the sides). All HDTV is 16:9, as is (bloody should be anyway) most SD digital TV. Get a 16:9 screen. Anything else is a excercise in unwanted brain strain... Except if you get an anamorphic lens then you will still use the full pixels. If you watch movies the most and don't mind paying 2k for some lens on top of the projector then that is the way to go.. but for me, as I said earlier, I watch more TV than movies so I'm not going to bother. The unit normally clips into a metal plate screwed to the wall, either plate is not flush, or unit not hooked in and could be hanging from the pipes partly, either might… 2 15791 The distance between my DEBs varies from 4.1m at the narrowest to 8.1m at the widest. 5 27310 Thanks again for this information. If you do hear anything different, would be great to know 4 8249 |