On Monday, 8 July 2024 00:57:40 BST Dale wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 05:10:18PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >>>>>> It's hi res and a good deal. :-D > >>>>> > >>>>> Please define hi res. Full HD at 32″ is definitely not hi res. ;-P > >>>>> It’s about as much as CRTs back in the day, close to 1024×768 at 17″. > >>>> > >>>> Well, I still consider 1080P hi res. That's what I get for any monitor > >>>> or TV I buy. The biggest thing I have is a 32" tho. My rooms are > >>>> kinda > >>>> small. No need for a 60" TV/monitor. > >>> > >>> Well my TV sits over 4 m (that’s 13 feet for the imperialists) away from > >>> the sofa. So I splurged and got myself a 65″ one. > >> > >> Well, I saw on a website once where it gave info on distance, monitor > >> size and what you are watching can factor in too. It claimed that a 32" > >> is the ideal size for my room. Given my old eyes tho, a 42" might serve > >> me better. Thing is, I'm bad to watch old videos from the 80's, 70's > >> and even 60's. Most of those are 480P or if lucky, just a little higher > >> resolution. With those, monitor size can make videos worse. > > > > This websites’s goal probably was about covering your eyes’ natural field > > of view. Sitting at my desk, my 27 inch monitor appears only slight > > smaller than my 65 inch TV 4 m away. Watching 50s TV shows will be the > > same experience on both in those situations. > > > > If you want to fill that entire field of view with details, then > > naturally, > > a 50s TV show in 480p won’t suffice. The more of your viewing arc you want > > to cover, the more picture resolution you need. You basically want to map > > X amount of pixels on each degree of viewing arc. Physical units are > > great. > > > > It also goes into the other direction: people these days™ watch 4K movies > > on their phones. Why, just why? Even if the screen can display it > > physically, their eyes cannot resolve that fine detail, because the > > pixels are too small. > > > > -- Grüße | Greetings | Salut | Qapla’ Please do not share anything > > from, with or about me on any social network. How do you recognise a > > male hedgehog? It has one more spine. > > Yea. The website at the time was mostly likely to help people not buy a > TV that is waaaay to large. > > I made a DVD of the TV series Combat for my neighbor. That was when he > had a little smaller TV. It said it looked like large blocks on the > screen. He watched it tho. lol He sits about 10 feet from the TV. It > is a nice TV tho. All that smart stuff. > > I agree, a device should pick a resolution that it can easily display > without downloading more than it needs. There's really not much need > putting a 4K or even a 1080P video on a small cell phone. Unless a > person is using a magnifying glass, they won't see the difference. I > remember some of my old CRTs that ran at 720P. For their small size, > that was plenty.
Devices send a viewport size to the server to fetch scaled images and fonts as required, instead of downloading a huge resolution only for it to be consumed on the small screen of a phone or tablet. I'm not sure how the screen size information is shared between server-phone-TV when you mirror your phone on a TV.
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