Sit too close and you won’t be watching your TV screen so much as watching the pixels that make up the picture. That means you need to be sitting no closer than 2.5m to your new 65-inch television – and, ideally, more like 3 to 3.5m. A good rule of thumb for 4K screens is to consider a distance of somewhere between 1.5 and 2 times the screen size as the minimum viewing distance. That means you need to measure the distance between where the TV is going to be and where you intend to sit when watching it.ĤK resolution screens are easier to watch from a short distance than 1080p Full HD equivalents – thanks to the massive uptick in pixel quantity – but nevertheless you don’t want to be too close. This is especially relevant if you plan to mount your TV on the wall – in purely decorative terms it might look great above the fireplace, but unless you watch TV from a bar-stool it’s almost certain to be too high to view comfortably. So the ‘65-inch’ measurement indicates the distance from the bottom-left corner of the screen to the top-right corner. Well, it’ll be just the same if you’re sitting too close to your TV.įirst of all, bear in mind that TV screen sizes are measured on the diagonal. It’s rotten, isn’t it? Can’t take in the whole screen at once, can’t help but notice noise in the picture, can’t help but be made to feel a bit queasy by rapid or unpredictable on-screen motion. We’ve all been to the cinema to see a popular film during its first few days of release, which means at some point we’ve all ended up sitting too close to the screen. The most fundamental question of all is: do you have the necessary space to accommodate a 65-inch TV? We don’t mean the surface to put it on, or the wall to hang it on, either – we mean the distance from which you’ll need to sit in order to enjoy a comfortable viewing experience. There are factors to consider before you get out your credit card and start folding the back seats of your car down. Just because you can afford a 65-inch TV, though, it doesn’t automatically follow that you should go straight out and buy one. (Image credit: Hisense) Sizing up your space
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