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Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 06:38:57 -0400
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>On 30/05/2025 04:30, Justisaur wrote:
>> On 5/29/2025 8:24 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>> On Thu, 29 May 2025 10:09:13 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 28 May 2025 05:22:56 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
>>>> Xocyll wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hell I don't even buy Blu-Ray if DVD is an option - I literally see no
>>>>> difference between them, so 4K Ultra was never in consideration.
>>>>
>>>> I do Bluray for the audio. There I can definitely hear a difference. I
>>>> found this out when I got Fight Club on Bluray.
>>>>
>>>> But a 4k picture is only noticable to people with 20/10 vision on a
>>>> minimum 90" screen from 5-10 feet.
>>>
>>>
>>> Heh. I saw a 98" UHD TV the other day in a store. THERE I noticed the
>>> difference... when standing less than a foot away. The pixels were
>>> big!
>>>
>>> But even I wouldn't be using a TV that big unless I was sitting on a
>>> couch. And I'm the weirdo who uses a 47" display as one of my
>>> monitors. Just the thought of dragging a mouse across a screen that
>>> big makes the carpal tunnel flare up! ;-)
>>>
>>> (I was surprised at how inexpensive screens that big had become
>>> though; it seems that just a few years ago anything larger than 60"
>>> was in the $5-6000USD range, and now you can get a 98" screen for less
>>> than 2 grand).
>> 
>> The 2 grand isn't the problem, it's the couple hundred thousand I'd need 
>> for a bigger place where I even had a wall that big around here without 
>> going to a worse neighborhood.
>> 
>
>It's something I did think about when we got our last one. If we got a 
>TV that was too big it would have to go above the fireplace which is 
>probably not good for it and it'd be a poor viewing angle. The other 
>option would be to remove the sofa and sit on high chairs instead!

Redneck it; put the couch up on cinder blocks like it was a pickup truck
in the front yard.

>I also don't like the idea of a TV dominating the room.

Well there is that.

Xocyll
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