there’s also new squatty fireplaces.
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It goes up to an exercise room. Aside from just a difference in taste, I saw so many issues with that house. The master bedroom (the purple) is open to the great room below, so it would be loud. And the exercise room up the stairway in the bedroom is also open to bedroom below and hence the great room. So if people are coming and going, you will hear them in the bedroom, and if a guest wants to use the exercise room, they have to go through your bedroom, and if one person is working out, everyone can hear them…but this all assumes the over 7,000 square foot home is intended for more than one person, lol.
The sun rooms would be nice, though.
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A graduate course in human factors engineering related to ergonomics changed my life for the better with regard to viewing my office monitor and TV. Adjusting my monitor height and chair to enable this range of viewing angles salvaged my sight and neck.
Although it has a marginal effect on TV viewing because of its larger size, the ergonomic benefits justify keeping the TV closer to eye level. Anyone who needs to have a screen high on the wall, rest assured, the higher placement seems to be a justifiable option, as per the diagram below.
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With all due respect to Mr. Lynch, I have seen movies in IMax 3d, with Dolby Surround Sound in huge theaters. And I’ve watched movies on my phone with a pair of ear-buds. The memory of each is indistinguishable.
This makes sense for my home as well. The bedroom TV is very high because we watch TV lying down and want to see over our knees if we are on our laptops occasionally.
The TV in the living room has to be seen over the back of the couch for my wife’s desk so it has to be higher. We have a tiny place and it’s the only way to have to full WFH desks.
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I was just thinking about this and realized my mother is somewhat guilty of this crime, though in this case I think the situation actually justifies it. She has a television on top of her refrigerator in the kitchen, This actually works out fine as in any case where you’re in the kitchen you’re standing at counters or the stove or the sink, etc and the only way to sit down is on a tall chair at an island on the far end of the kitchen that essentially leaves your head at standing height anyway.
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Is it just me, or do all of the people in both images appear to have a forward head posture problem?
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Those two graphics seem to contradict eachother. The first designates much lower screen position, as far 50-60 degrees. The second says 30 degrees max.
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Exactly! Notifications of text messages and the Target app show up on IMax too! but seriously, I think Lynch’s point is that phone (and even to some extent home viewing on TVs) cheapen the movie experience because they encourage half-involved viewing with lots of starts and stops rather than the 100% attention span one has (ideally) in the theater.
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Thank you. That’s not only proper cat content, but also a great murmuration.
Also, the first comment was spot on. Can’t beat resolution, dynamics, colour space. And content is much better than what we are used to on the tube.
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There’s a good reason why 90’s kids prefer to try games at KMart rather than Walmart
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My big beef is TV to FAR; most people can’t resolve the details in 4k with the 12+ foot distances that most people have in their living rooms.
Me too, except that the TV glasses are optimized for medium distance (7 ft to 65" TV), so I can’t wear them at the movie theater. I just ask the optometrist to make them a quarter diopter more nearsighted than the distance rx since most optometrists aren’t trained in prescribing for medium distance. They are slightly more comfortable this way since my eyes aren’t accommodating as much. This is only needed for older folks with presbyopia; if you are young then distance rx will be fine.
Watching TV with progressives requires a very upright posture, almost looking down. But with single distance you can recline very comfortably and still see the TV clearly through the bottom of the glasses.
Sure. If I really want to watch something I am going to concentrate on it, whether watching it on a phone or tablet. And generally I will be more comfortable and less distracted than I will be in a theater. And I can say with 100% certainty that some jackass in the row behind me will not be kicking the seat, nor have some chump on the other side of the theater feel compelled to talk out loud to the screen during the movie. And if a cat jumps in my lap, or I have some other disturbance, I can go back a minute and rewatch what I might have missed.
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From a review of the Mulholland Drive DVD
As with most of Lynch’s films on DVD, there are no chapter stops on the disc. Lynch feels that the film should be viewed in one setting, without interruptions.
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I need to go back to the text and my notes, but as I recall, the optimal viewing angle normal to the screen is 15-20 degrees downward from eye level. So I position the center of my screens just below eye level and point my monitors slightly upward. For TV’s they end up being higher because that’s the space available on a wall or above a furniture item.
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I have spent most of my life hunched over, reading books. I need stuff to be above eye height, to save my neck and back.
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Fair enough. I do occasionally share a desk with another who positions the monitors up high, the chair at its base level, and sets the back rest on recline, which has a similar effect for the eyes to the screen, but must help him avoid the forward posture issue mentioned above.
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