How to Choose the Best Home Theater Screen Size

Posted by james on June 12th, 2021

This video is important for our Home Theater Design Series that covers practically all you require to think about planning a home theater. Here, we will investigate how to pick the best size for your TV or front projection home theater framework. We've finished in the counsel of the movie business and our long stretches of involvement in true home theaters to remove the mystery from assisting you with picking the ideal screen size. You'll simply require a measuring tape and a number cruncher. Notwithstanding our a-list home theater configuration instrument, we've given you all you require to start your home theater venture in Home Theater cinema.

Through our Audio Advice stores, we have introduced a large number of home theaters and media rooms. One thing we have never heard anybody say is: "The screen is too enormous"! Indeed, with regards to home theater, it appears as though greater is in every case better! The approach of 4K substance with 8K coming before long has likewise improved the contention for a considerably bigger screen. With the entirety of this high-goal content, you simply can not perceive any video ancient rarities except if you are practically directly on top of the screen.

Quite possibly the most normally posed inquiries we get is, how large should my screen be? Indeed, the appropriate response is as a rule, as large as possible make it! In the event that you need watching a movie at home to be a similar kind of completely vivid experience you get in a movie theater, the screen needs to top off a very decent level of your field of vision or what might be called flat survey point. You can investigate this subject and find different solutions.

What the Experts Say

There are two gatherings that lead the charge in determining what ought to be the appropriate review distance. One is SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Theater Engineers) and the other is THX (a Lucasfilm standard set). For a 16:9 screen, SMPTE suggests a 30-degree seeing point from the screen while THX recommends a 36-degree seeing point. As the survey point expansions in esteem, you would be sitting nearer to the screen.

We have had many clients sit in our theater rooms to figure out which rate feels ideal for them. We just play an activity film and have them change their distance to the screen until it feels ideal for them. At the point when we plan their theater utilizing this math, they are in every case amazingly glad. On the off chance that you are understanding this and are not close by both of our two areas, we can share what the normal watcher enjoys so you can draw near without the full analysis we do in our stores.

Choose What Type Of Screen

Stage one is choosing which of the two angle proportions you need for your home theater. The two perspective proportions are 16:9 and 2.40. For a great many people, it will be a 16:9 angle proportion. This implies that you'll see some dark bars on a widescreen movie, however all level board TV's and the acceptable larger part of front projectors are a 16:9 angle proportion. For more data on what widescreen is about and why you need it on the off chance that you are building an elite theater, look at our book private screening.

Get Out Your Tape Measure

The subsequent stage is to quantify the separation from the screen to your fundamental seating position. In the event that you can change your seating position, this is acceptable, you may draw nearer to the screen for what feels like a bigger picture. Make a note of your distance and get out an adding machine.

We presume you definitely know your own inclination of where you like to sit in a movie theater, that is in the event that you had your decision of precisely where the distance felt extraordinary to your eyes. We track down that a many individuals pick the center of the theater, while a more modest gathering likes to sit nearer to the first line. We'll go over the math for both of these decisions.

In the event that you like to sit close to the center line in a business theater, for a 16:9 proportion screen, a great many people feel a 30-degree field of vision is awesome. For 2.40 widescreen, a 42-degree field of vision is picked more often than not.

For those of you who like to draw nearer to the first column, a 36-degree field of vision is the most ideal decision for 16:9 and a 48 degree for a 2.40 screen will be wonderful. We are in reality in this camp for our own theaters as we feel this size gives you a more vivid encounter.

Figure it out

So how would you utilize this to sort out your optimal screen size? All things considered, instead of make you return to tenth grade calculation, we crunched the numbers for you.

In the event that You Like Viewing in the Middle Row

For a 16:9 screen and a 30 degree field of vision, basically take the distance you will sit from the screen in inches and duplicate it by .6723 to get the screen corner to corner. In this model, in the event that you are sitting 7 feet from the screen the recipe resembles this. Make an interpretation of the 7 feet to inches, which gets you 84. Increase multiple times .6723 which approaches 56.47, so in that circumstance, a 55" slanting" TV would be incredible. At 12 feet (144") it would be multiple times .6723 which approaches 96.81 inches so a 92-100" estimated screen would be acceptable at that distance.

For 2.40 widescreen, you use .83 as the multiplier. In this model, on the off chance that you were sitting 10 feet from the screen a 99.6" askew 2.40 screen would be great.