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Old 10-27-2017, 11:03 AM   #1644
glatt
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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Yeah, we talked about this years ago. Most people have such poor eyesight that the higher resolution TVs don't give them a noticeably better picture at normal viewing distances unless it is a huge screen. The resolution of the rods and cones in your eyes, which are like pixels in a way, is poorer than the resolution on the tv.

One time my son and I pulled the couch right up to the tv, like 2-3 feet away, to watch a particulary cool NASA thing on PBS, and that was the first time I noticed the pixels watching something on my 720p TV (32").
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