Dizziness caused by LED TV?

[Alan Medic]

We purchased a large TV some month's ago now. Mrs.Medic suspects that watching it has caused her to experience dizzy spells, as they appear to have started after the TV arrived.

Does anyone have any experience of this?

[Help-Ma-Boab]

It's not one of these new 5000" sets....and she's sitting on top of it?

[Jeremy]

Yeah big TV and sitting too close could do it. I think in these small Victorian houses where you're never more than 3m from the TV, 40" is plenty big enough.

Some TVs have settings which distort the picture, upscale/interpolate, or are supposed to "smooth" out the motion. Basically you need to turn all this crap off.

[*Bob*]

The 'how close you can sit' rule isn't based on the size of the screen, it's based on the definition of the image. So - perversely - you can sit closer to a larger, hi-def image than you could a smaller old-styled CRT image. After that, there's whether it's comfortable or not - which is a personal thing.

Jez is totes right though: the first thing to check out is any interpolation / 'smoothing' feature (or whatever the brand of set you have calls it) which often comes default set as 'on'. It's bloody horrible - made me feel absolutely sick as a dog too until I hunted it down and switched it off.

On the whole, whatever size you get, most people will get used to it - and find it harder to go back to something smaller. 40 would seem too small now.

[Jeremy]

Where do you even put a TV larger than 40" in a typical vic. terraced house? Anything bigger probably won't fit in the alcove. I don't want a TV over the fireplace, or hogging the window bay.

[*Bob*]

It's doesn't have to go 'over something' or 'in something' to be unintrusive.

[JohnL]

Didn't know about this - they call it the Soap Opera effect it seems.

Will watch for it when I buy my next TV :)

[*Bob*]

That's it, John.

Makes your average $100m movie look like an episode of 'Friends' and gives you motion sickness.

[Jeremy]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> It's doesn't have to go 'over something' or 'in something' to be unintrusive.

In a typical 4 x 3.5m living room with a chimney it kinda does.. not much spare flat wall available.

[Loz]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Where do you even put a TV larger than 40" in a

> typical vic. terraced house? Anything bigger

> probably won't fit in the alcove. I don't want a

> TV over the fireplace, or hogging the window bay.

The joys of flat screens. We have a 3.5m x 4.5m room with a 55" TV on the longer wall near the door. Bloody marvellous. Mind you, the last owners of the house took the chimney out, which does help.

Looked huge when we got it... now we think 65" might be better!

[Jeremy]

Yeah if you've removed the chimney then at least you have 3 walls (if you still have separate reception rooms) or 2 walls (if you've opened up your lounge and dining rooms).

[Alan Medic]

Thanks for the idea.Need to find the smoothing feature. I'm sure it's there somewhere. Have bought a 5m cable to move the TV and box to a different location. Just hope it doesn't reduce the picture quality.

[red devil]

Loz Wrote:

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> Jeremy Wrote:

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> > Where do you even put a TV larger than 40" in a

> > typical vic. terraced house? Anything bigger

> > probably won't fit in the alcove. I don't want

> a

> > TV over the fireplace, or hogging the window

> bay.

>

> The joys of flat screens. We have a 3.5m x 4.5m

> room with a 55" TV on the longer wall near the

> door. Bloody marvellous. Mind you, the last

> owners of the house took the chimney out, which

> does help.

>

> Looked huge when we got it... now we think 65"

> might be better!

This is all starting to sound like the modern day equivalent of the old car/penis size theorem. Quite happy with my 26''er...

[Otta]

We have 46" Samsung, which when we got it in our old place, seemed huge. But that's because the living room was set out so that I tended to sit on the floor a few feet away. Now in out bigger living room where I'm sat at least twice as far from the telly, I could quite happily go larger.

But I am blind as a bat to be fair.

[*Bob*]

You should take the plunge, RD.

There's a little bit of middle class worry at first ("big telly? - ooh I dunno - it's all a bit Asda") but once you're over it, all you're left with is a massive bloody telly which is BLOODY BRILLIANT

[Jeremy]

I suppose a big TV is fine in a modern house in Bromley or Canvey Island. But in a tasteful period property in London, it doesn't quite fit does it?

[*Bob*]

Depends how you do it, Jezzer! No trouble here.. BOSH!

[Otta]

We got ours a year before leaving a quiet little road in Sydenham. The neighbours' filthy looks and audible tuts got too much so we moved to a council estate in Penge where we have been accepted on the strength of our big telly.

[red devil]

:) Quality...

[Otta]

Used to make me laugh when I worked for Greenwich social services with visually impaired people. I'd go and visit some old dear in Woolwich or Thamesmead and their grown kids would say "we got me mum a new telly so she could see it like". I'd walk in the living room and find this immense thing which took up half the room, on a huge great big stand. Most of the time the old dears would tell me when we were alone that they absolutely hated it but didn't have the heart to tell their family that.

[Loz]

Now flexible, thin LEDs are coming to fruition I reckon we're not to far from the day when, instead of a 'feature wall', we'll have a 'telly wall'.

[Loz]

red devil Wrote:

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> This is all starting to sound like the modern day

> equivalent of the old car/penis size theorem.

> Quite happy with my 26''er...

Yeah, everyone with a small telly says that. :D

[Jeremy]

Otta Wrote:

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> their grown kids would say "we got

> me mum a new telly so she could see it like".

You get a lot of scousers in Woolwich and Thamesmead, then?

[Otta]

salt of the earth saaaf Londoners in their 60s. They also say "me" instead of "my" and finish with "like".

[nashoi]

I bought a version of Google cardboard the other day. That's the future, a 5inch screen strapped 2 inches from your eyes.