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lg sponsored this video with their 86

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nano 90 which is an 86 inch tv it's got

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nano cell tech which means it has nano particles that absorb unwanted

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wavelengths for a wider color gamut and bigger viewing angles and that kind of

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got us thinking holy smokes i mean when you got a tv this big are you gonna need

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like a dedicated theater room just to have it fit in your field of view to

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find out we created this testing setup and we're gonna

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subject all of the LMG staff well not all of

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them that's a lot of people now and we're gonna subject our staff to this

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monstrosity of a tv and have them select

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the distance at which they are most comfortable then see how that compares to the

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prevailing wisdom out there on the internet for just how far

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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

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tv so why don't we back it off a little i didn't think about how much bigger

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this is than my home tv so i've got a 77 inch at home which already is like

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ridiculously big but this something i think we're going to run into is that

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what you're used to is going to make a big difference to the comfort of your

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viewing experience if i was gaming i might want to be a little bit closer

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actually right there that's as close as i think i could get for gaming from here

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just by flicking my eyes a little bit i can see the corners of the screen if i

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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

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do then uh kind of depends what you ask so the way this is measured isn't so

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much about viewing distance but about presence there's lots of different

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dimensions to presence think about how immersive vr is right how much more

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immersive a high refresh rate game is more like audio surrounding video sure

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so having your field of view filled with the content is one element of presence

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so where did i end up you ended up actually at right on one of the

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recommendations uh from smpte or simpty one of the

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institutions that measures like color science and all this kind of stuff they recommend having your field of view

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30 degrees of it filled with the content and that was a distance of 11.7 feet you

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were right on that interesting yeah so thx obviously their whole thing is

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movies movie enthusiasts then their ideal distance is 8.6 feet that

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corresponds to your field of view 40 degrees of your field of view being

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filled they offer a range because they realize that not everybody is going to

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be in the same conditions and people are different so they say 40 degrees would

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be ideal but 36 degrees is also pretty good and thx max acceptable distance

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which is 13 and a half feet that's a 26 degree field of view there's actually

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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

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just 10 degrees of your field of view being filled with content and that's

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from the ntsc when they're originally setting up like tv broadcast like back

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in the 70s or whatever so it would probably where would i be three feet

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back like yeah in the door frame no

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but what's the purpose of this line because this is way closer than what

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anyone thinks is acceptable so for a tv this size five feet is how far you need

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to be away so that you don't discern the pixels so

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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

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the front row of the movie theater where you had to like ping-pong your head around just to follow a conversation

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and eye strain is a big thing too although interestingly eye strain is

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worse for adults sitting close that's why kids are always sitting close to the

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tv and they think it's fine but when you're like hey you can't sit here this

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actually hurts yeah this is going to give you a headache it doesn't hurt them because their eyes are better at

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focusing on closer objects than adults so you could kind of say i got it right

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then i i think thx ideal would have been right let's see how the rest of the team

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lines up with my experience then this is totally watchable way back here but it's

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kind of a waste i think i'm gonna go with something like this

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oh my god damn it i'm right on where Linus was i'd

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wanna be a little bit further away i think again it just might be too close i

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would just feel more comfortable

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i think at that point it's just personal preference like i don't like being too

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close to the tv i feel like right here is a pretty comfortable distance

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but you're not really straining to see stuff even if i'm all the way back here

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it still feels like wow this is a pretty good experience

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if i were to design a living room i'd probably say like

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like here but yeah a little bit closer for gaming

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and then a little bit further back a little bit more relaxed

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um for more of like immersive movie watching experience kind

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of thing and the type of person who sits at the very back of the movie theater

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probably around here it's comfortable for movies this is what i would want if

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i want the best theater totally engrossing being

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transported away experience if i was just sitting at home

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watching a movie for the carpool critics podcast where we

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review movies and you should go subscribe i would probably be more realistically

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back here if i was just sitting either gaming or watching a movie by myself

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right about here i could see the full screen perfectly clear yeah that's a

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good distance so let's see i always will measure 50 55 degrees

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uh each hand is about 10 degrees this is my final answer your estimate

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with the field of view like degrees thing is actually pretty close that's

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good that means the fist test works i always do this when i go to a theater

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this would be like the optimal kind of distance with

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like everything that's going to be there whereas like if it's purely just for

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like i want to experience whatever i'm

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watching itself without having to worry about anything that's going to be around

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me i feel like i'd be like yeah a bit closer so it's the next day and the

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results are in and interestingly there's kind of two people in the world if the

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world is a sample size of 10 at our office

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the first type of person ended up over here the 30 degree mark

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and that's actually a viewing distance that is espoused by a lot of home

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theater enthusiasts but it's also a really workable distance in a room like

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a normal living room that has multi-purpose so

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it's actually still really close though the second type of person we got were

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kind of the more i like to be up close enthusiasts where

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they are between nine feet which is the thx kind of area

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even as close as about seven this is a sweet experience and it might be closer

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to the tv than you thought if you're in the market for a tv this size especially

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with a tv that's nice like this one is it looks like about 40 local dimming

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zones so that's definitely less than that vizio we looked at and peak

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brightness is not as high but HDR content does look pretty darn good it's

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hard to call an 86 inch tv like value but it's that's how it's priced so it's

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got some other really cool features freesync premium is included the e-arc

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port is actually one of the HDMI 4k 120 hertz

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ports so that's got some of the HDMI 2.1

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standards built into it obviously that's less of an issue today but as the new

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consoles roll out new pcs with new graphics cards

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4k 120 hertz may may start to be a thing mostly for gaming obviously but man

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that'd be kind of cool being able to go back and like play your xbox one or ps4

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games like your back catalog games but at like 120 FPS upscaled with atmos

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what happens so thanks to lg for sponsoring this video if you're

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