How you can handle such a big screen (32 inch and above)

[Vayne778]

Do you feel comfortable? For me 24-27 seems like max that I can handle

 

I see some people using like 43 inch as their monitor on YouTube...Damn I wonder if their eyes is still comfortable looking at those big screen?

[Dedayog]

4 minutes ago, Vayne778 said:

Do you feel comfortable? For me 24-27 seems like max that I can handle

 

I see some people using like 43 inch as their monitor on YouTube...Damn I wonder if their eyes is still comfortable looking at those big screen?

Depends on the distance.  32 inch looks like 24 inch when moved back a little. I'm sure some have them too close, but it's their necks they gotten bend

 

[flibberdipper]

Really depends on distance. From like 4-5 feet I can totally use a 50-60 inch or so boob tube if I want to.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Distance and resolution. I can stand a 27" 1440P display but at the same distance, a 27" 1080P display just looks awful and I can't stand it. 

[Chris Pratt]

I had a display that size at my office. It kind of is too much to take in all at once, but I had mine sub-divided into 4 zones, so it kind of acted more as a multi-monitor setup, just without bezels.

[WereCat]

I really like 32". 

I currently have 27" and 2x32" all 1440p. I sit about 70cm away from the screens. I don't have any issues with having to move my head around, I can still see everything. 

 

I use the 32" for browser, chat, videos, references. 

The 27" for gaming. 

I also like to sometimes just watch videos from my bed so looking at 32" is almost like having a TV. 

 

I had 24" 1080p before and I found it to be big after upgrading from a 15" laptop. 

I couldn't go back now though. 

[Stahlmann]

Size is dependant on how immersed you want to get. But bigger =/= better. With a bigger size you need more resolution to retain a sharp image. And more resolution is harder to drive of course.

 

Eye strain has more to do with brightness than with anything else. No matter what size you prefer you should always find the lowest brightness possible with your lighting conditions. The lower you can get the brightness, the less it will strain your eyes. This only applies for SDR of course. For HDR you want the content creator to decide what brightness the content is meant to be viewed at.

[Doobeedoo]

My friend used to game on a TV on a desk arm length distance from him, so bad. Obviously you'd mostly always put a larger monitor a bit further away, but yeah, depends on size and desk depth too. Personally I like 24" especially for fps games also no need to look around too much, action is more centered per say. 27" will be my new upgrade, really I'd keep 24" size though no higher end monitors in that size really. Something like 30-ish" I'd only use if it was specs I wanted and could afford, obviously 4K.

[Laytony]

I went from 23" to 27" to 32" and I'll be getting my 50" whenever FedEx feels like delivering it. I like big screens and I can not lie.. Probably helps that I'm not a competitive gamer nor do I play FPS games though. 

 

edit: The 50" came and I'm already used to the size, lol

[Mihle]

I have 32" 4k monitor, Unlike it but wouldn't get anything bigger. I use it at what I would consider normal monitor distance.

 

As to how, I don't know, I am just using it, not doing anything special.

[SolarNova]

Here's the thing, as people have pointed out, its the viewing distance that matters, not the size of the display.

If you sit close u can make do with a small screen, and at a certain point a screen can be to big.

 

However those of us using large displays 'general' sit further back than ur traditional PC office setups.

 

I for example have a 42" Plasma, i sit between 4' to 5' from the screen when measuring screen surface to eyes. this is with a 1080p display, when i use custom 21:9 resolutions i sit a little closer as UI's shrink when running a 'letterbox' 21:9 resolution on a 16:9 display.

When i eventually upgrade to a 4k display of similar size , an OLED ofc, I 'could' sit closer thanks to the higher resolution, but im comfortable with the view distance i have now.

 

Would i sit at the usual 2' office desk distance with a 42"+ screen size ..no, not unless it was like 8k in resolution, even at 4k sitting that close to a 42"+ screen would be to close from a visual quality standpoint, besides that its to close from a comfort standpoint.

[jones177]

This is one of my setups(LG 55").

It works fine for me.  I think I am 34" away.  Closer and I would need to use prescription computer glasses. Further away I would need my driving glasses. 

[Stahlmann]

On 6/26/2021 at 8:51 PM, jones177 said:

This is one of my setups(LG 55").

It works fine for me.  I think I am 34" away.  Closer and I would need to use prescription computer glasses. Further away I would need my driving glasses. 

Seems to work for you, but i would never get a 55" this close to my face. At this point the low PPI becomes noticeable. Even a 27" 1440p monitor will have a sharper image on a normal desk than a 55" 4K monitor. But it's different for everyone i guess...

[jones177]

3 hours ago, Stahlmann said:

Seems to work for you, but i would never get a 55" this close to my face. At this point the low PPI becomes noticeable. Even a 27" 1440p monitor will have a sharper image on a normal desk than a 55" 4K monitor. But it's different for everyone i guess...

This all started when I was replacing the old 1080p TVs in the bedrooms and living room. None of the TVs were used as monitors so this was sort of an experiment in saving space. If it had not have worked out the OLEDs would have been placed where the 1080p TVs were.

They replaced a 38" 3840 X 1600 LG monitor on one computer and 2 4k monitors on another. I still have these monitors so it would be easy to go back.

 

I have a LG 32" 1440p 144hz monitor as well and the OLED does a better job at even that resolution since I can see the pixels on the monitor unless it is about as far away as the OLED. I also have a IPS TV and 1440p does not look good on it so this is a OLED thing.

I would say that the image is about as good as my 32" 4k monitor at a normal viewing distance.

 

It is different. 

My Son uses one of the bedrooms when he is in town and did not like the OLED TV as a monitor so I replaced it with 2 4k monitors.  To make room for a "work at home" video editing station the TV was removed altogether and replaced with a 34" 3440 X 1440 monitor. 

It only works for me since with a normal monitor at a normal distance I have to wear prescription glasses and I have been wearing those since the 80s so I am glad to be free of them.

 

In a way the OLEDs did fail as monitors since the one I used for doing things like visiting forums burnt in after 4900 hours. So now they are only used for games and TV content.

That gave me the excuse to build another computer and that is my Ryzen setup. It is another experiment since I have been using Intel since 2008.