Increase in screen size?

Swampyseifer

Swampyseifer

Swampyseifer

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hi all

I currently have a quite cheap 32” hd tv, probably a good 5 years old or so.

Recently moved to a much bigger house and I now sit about 10’ away from the screen and I’m finding it hard to read small text, especially when playing games on my ps4 (not pro).

Probably a daft question, but when the wife says “but you don’t actually know for definite it will help?” just makes me want to double check that increasing the screen size would help this?

I’m thinking of a 49”. Tbh I’m assuming that even though i don’t have the means to take advantage of it, I may as well head for a 4K tv? Had a rough browse in my local store and one that seemed to tick all boxes (considering I don’t really know what boxes I need to tick!) was the the Samsung UE49MU6400 which was about £450ish. Don’t see the point to paying to go really cheap but don’t see the point in paying out the nose and spending days pouring over specs and costs to get something I won’t even make the most of!

TIA
 
Bring a book closer to your wife, ask if she finds it easier to read. Personally I wouldn't recommend Samsung, their panels may be great but it's backed up with lousy hardware and buggy software on the DSP boards.

I use a 50" in a smaller room and it's great.

All TV's are now 4K
 
Does that analogy mean yes or no? You’re talking about bringing a book closer whereas I’m asking if a “book” being bigger helps?

The only reason I’m not 100% sure is because although the tv will be almost 10” bigger, the resolution is x4 higher which means smaller text?
 
i have just tried my 40 inch 4K monitor

from 8 foot away i cannot really read text under the icons.

i had to scale my browser to 150% to get near a comfy size
but i doubt it would be good for extended periods.

i sit atwhat i would call a natural distance from it, as in pc desk
keyboard then chair so 2.5 foot give or take.

i wear specs and find 100% desktop and 110% browser is good, on
the gaming side when playing race games or flight its all good, when
it comes to FPS then i window the game to about a 32 inch screen, thats
because leaning in to play makes it hard to see all thats going on.

i think you may have to go bigger but stick to 1080.
 
Swampyseifer said:
hi all

I currently have a quite cheap 32” hd tv, probably a good 5 years old or so.

Recently moved to a much bigger house and I now sit about 10’ away from the screen and I’m finding it hard to read small text, especially when playing games on my ps4 (not pro).

Probably a daft question, but when the wife says “but you don’t actually know for definite it will help?” just makes me want to double check that increasing the screen size would help this?

I’m thinking of a 49”. Tbh I’m assuming that even though i don’t have the means to take advantage of it, I may as well head for a 4K tv? Had a rough browse in my local store and one that seemed to tick all boxes (considering I don’t really know what boxes I need to tick!) was the the Samsung UE49MU6400 which was about £450ish. Don’t see the point to paying to go really cheap but don’t see the point in paying out the nose and spending days pouring over specs and costs to get something I won’t even make the most of!

TIA
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The last 3 TVs I have had were Samsung and I have been more than happy with them, I personally think that set would be fine,

Tv's in the last few years have improved no end and it would definitely make it easier for text and general viewing

One thing I would say is do you or have you had your eyes tested? I had a similar thing a few years back and my missus made me have an eye test, I couldn't believe the difference once they told me I needed glasses and I started wearing them

Cheers

Fergin
 
wakadoo said:
i have just tried my 40 inch 4K monitor

from 8 foot away i cannot really read text under the icons.

i had to scale my browser to 150% to get near a comfy size
but i doubt it would be good for extended periods.

i sit atwhat i would call a natural distance from it, as in pc desk
keyboard then chair so 2.5 foot give or take.

i wear specs and find 100% desktop and 110% browser is good, on
the gaming side when playing race games or flight its all good, when
it comes to FPS then i window the game to about a 32 inch screen, thats
because leaning in to play makes it hard to see all thats going on.

i think you may have to go bigger but stick to 1080.
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TV and computer use is two totally different things, also may use windows scaling too so make fonts and borders bigger.
 
The text on a big 4k TV will still be small for example windows at 4k on a 55" screen, unless you change the windows scaling. But gaming etc. will have bigger text, also a bigger screen is much better 32" is too small.
 
Swampyseifer said:
I would estimate that it was probably about 7-8 feet. The game itself makes a difference, some games I could read the red fine, some I had to sit forwards and some I couldn’t read at all without sitting much closer
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Youd get a similar experience from:
- 50" UHD panel at about just under 6ft
- 55" UHD panel at 6.5ft.
- 60" UHD panel at 7ft.

Your ps3 (non-pro) doesnt support 4k though, so you'd be running at 1080p in which case anything 42"+ at 10ft would be comparable to your 32" at 7.5ft.
 
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