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how big a bed room do you have?
Screen ---Viewing distance range
26" --- 3.25-5.5 feet
32" --- 4.0-6.66 feet
37" --- 4.63-7.71 feet
40" --- 5.0-8.33 feet
46" --- 5.75-9.5 feet
52" --- 6.5-10.8 feet
58" --- 7.25-12 feet
65" --- 8.13-13.5 feet
70" --- 8.75-14.75 feet
That chart can be found on this crutchfield catalog:
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or amazon: [link]
I would think a bedroom set wouldn't want to be too big to keep illumination to a minimum, if it's a source to help put you to sleep. If it's your primary watching zone, well, then that might be different.
My new little Samsung in the bedroom is 22 inches. It's probably 10+ feet away from my eyes and it's fine.
Huh. I think I'd want a smaller size than the low end of the ranges listed for most of those distances. And I have bad eyes.
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Yeah, I don't think I want to go too big, and I like the price for the smaller one, too. Thanks!
We have a 32" in the bedroom. It is on the wall at the foot of the bed which places it probably about 8.5' away. I wouldn't want much smaller than 32" in there.
I have an old Series 2 TiVo and DIRECTV, and if I'm getting an HDTV, I suspect that I'm screwed in terms of an HD TiVo until DIRECTV and TiVo launch their new HD DVR.
Am I right?
I think you are, sadly. I have the Directv HD dual-tuner DVR, and it's pretty nice, but not Tivo-tastic.
There was a Directivo that was HD, but a) probably not available anywhere and b) a lot of stuff has changed since then.
HD Directivo is one of the vaporiest of vaporware products in the history of ever, but I still await its coming like a faithful supplicant.
Anyone an Outlook 2010 user? I have the desktop client and need to schedule meetings for other people - specifically, create meetings between various people and a resource (a desk). So far I cannot figure out how to make myself NOT an attendee of these meetings - there is no way to uncheck myself in the meeting scheduler. Ideas? (Also, is there a way to not send emails for each meeting? I want them to just appear.)
As long as we're talking home networks, has anyone used something like this to put hard drives on your home network?
Why wouldn't you just use a NAS with internal SATA bays? It seems like you'd bottleneck at the USB 2.0 connectors. I'm not sure what the advantage of wireless would be in this case, then again wireless is so cheap, it might not make much difference.
Anyhow I think something like this:
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Would have a lot better performance. Put in a couple of 2TB drives and you'd got 2TB with redundancy. I don't think you can mirror drives efficiently with a USB based setup and if you're going to add network storage, I think it's good to add some data redundancy along with it.
