lg sponsored this video with their 86
nano 90 which is an 86 inch
tv it's got nano cell tech which means
it has nano particles that absorb
unwanted wavelengths for a wider color
gamut and bigger viewing angles and
that kind of got us thinking holy smokes
i mean when you got a tv this big are
you going to need like a dedicated
theater room just to have it fit in your
field of view
to find out we created
this testing setup and we're gonna
subject
all of the lmg staff well not all of
them that's a lot of people now
and we're gonna subject our staff to
this monstrosity of a tv
and have them select the distance at
which they are most comfortable
then see how that compares to the
prevailing wisdom
out there on the internet for just how
far you should be seated
from your display
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nobody at lg or otherwise thinks that
you should sit
three feet from a 86 inch tv so why
don't we back it off a little
i didn't think about how much bigger
this is than my home tv so i've got a 77
inch at home which already is like
ridiculously big but this
something i think we're gonna run into
is that what you're used to
is going to make a big difference to the
comfort of your viewing experience
if i was gaming i might want to be a
little bit closer actually
right there that's as close as i think i
could get for gaming from here just by
flicking my eyes a little bit i can see
the corners of the screen if i need to i
don't actually have to move my head so
this is
as close as i'd want to get so how'd i
do then uh
kind of depends who you ask so the way
this is measured isn't so much about
viewing distance but
about presence there's lots of different
dimensions to presence think about
how immersive vr is right how much more
immersive a high refresh rate game is
more like
audio surround studio sure so having
your field of view filled with the
content
is one element of presence so where did
i end up you ended up
actually at right on one of the
recommendations
uh from smpte or simpty
one of the institutions that measures
like color science and all this kind of
stuff they recommend having your field
of view
30 degrees of it filled with the content
and that was a distance of 11.7 feet
you were right on that interesting yeah
so thx
obviously their whole thing is movies
movie enthusiasts then their ideal
distance is 8.6 feet that corresponds to
your field of view 40 degrees of your
field of view being filled they offer a
range because they realize that not
everybody is going to be in the same
conditions and people are different
so they say 40 degrees would be ideal
but 36 degrees is also pretty good and
thx
max acceptable distance which is 13 and
a half feet
that's a 26 degree field of view there's
actually another line that we don't have
on the floor here and that's because our
room isn't big enough
and that corresponds to just 10 degrees
of your field of view being filled with
content
and that's from the ntsc when they're
originally setting up like tv
broadcasting like back in the
70s or whatever so it would probably
where would i be three feet back like
yeah in the door frame
no but what's the purpose of this line
because this is way closer than what
anyone thinks is
acceptable so for a tv this size five
feet
is how far you need to be away so that
you don't discern the pixels
so you don't get a screen door effect
but there's other reasons that you
wouldn't want to sit that close
we've all been in the front row of the
movie theater where you had to like ping
pong your head around just to follow a
conversation
and eye strain is a big thing too
although interestingly eye strain is
worse
for adults sitting close that's why kids
are always sitting close to the tv
and they think it's fine but when you're
like hey you can't sit here this
actually hurts yeah this is going to
give you a headache
it doesn't hurt them because their eyes
are better at focusing on closer objects
than adults
so you could kind of say i got it right
then i i think thx ideal would have been
right
let's see how the rest of the team lines
up with my experience then
this is totally watchable way back here
but it's kind of a waste
i think i'm going to go with something
like this oh my god
i'm right on where linus was i'd want to
be a little bit further away
i think again it just might be too close
i would just feel more comfortable
um i think at that point it's just
personal preference like i don't
like being too close to the tv i feel
like right here is a pretty comfortable
distance
but you're not really straining to see
stuff even if i'm all the way back here
it still feels like wow this is a pretty
good experience
if i were to design a living room i'd
probably
say like like here
but yeah a little bit closer for gaming
and then
a little bit further back a little bit
more relaxed um
for more of like immersive movie
watching experience kind of thing
and the type of person who sits at the
very back of the movie theater
probably around here is comfortable for
movies
this is what i would want if i want the
best
theater totally engrossing being
transported away
experience if i was just sitting at home
watching a movie for the carpool critics
podcast where
we review movies and you should go
subscribe i would probably
be more realistically back here if i was
just sitting either gaming or watching a
movie by myself
right about here i could see the full
screen perfectly clear yeah that's a
good distance
so let's see i always will measure 50 55
degrees
uh each hand is about 10 degrees this is
my final answer your estimate with the
field of view
like degrees thing is actually pretty
close that's good that means the fist
test works
i always do this when i go to a theater
this would be
like the optimal kind of distance with
like everything that's going to be there
whereas like if it's purely just for
like i want
to experience whatever i'm watching
itself without having to worry about
anything that's going to be around me
i feel like i'd be like yeah a bit
closer
so it's the next day and the results are
in and interestingly there's kind of
two people in the world if the world is
a sample size of 10
at our office the first type of person
ended up over here
the 30 degree mark and that's actually a
viewing distance that is
espoused by a lot of home theater
enthusiasts but it's also a really
workable distance
in a room like a normal living room that
has multi-purpose
so it's actually still really close
though the second type of person we got
were kind of the more i like to be up
close
enthusiasts where they're between nine
feet which is the thx kind of area
even as close as about seven this is a
sweet experience and it might be
closer to the tv than you thought if
you're in the market for
a tv this size especially with a tv
that's
nice like this one is it looks like
about 40 local dimming zones so that's
definitely less than that vizio we
looked at
and peak brightness is not as high but
hdr content does look
pretty darn good it's hard to call an 86
inch tv like value
but it's that's how it's priced so it's
got some other really cool features
freesync premium
is included the e-arc port is actually
one of the hdmi 4k 120 hertz ports
so that's got some of the hdmi 2.1
standards built into it obviously that's
less of an issue today
but as the new consoles roll out new pcs
with new graphics cards
4k 120 hertz may may start to be a thing
mostly for gaming obviously but
man that'd be kind of cool being able to
go back and like play your
xbox one or ps4 games like your back
catalog games but at like
120 fps upscaled with atmos
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