Good PPI for 10 feet distance?

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hey guys im thinking of combining 4 monitors for gaming and will be sitting around 10 feet away. i will also be using this for internet browsing so i was wondering what PPI would be good to browse the net at 10 feet away and what would be some good monitor choices for the same?

Thanks
 
10 feet away is pretty far even for four 30" monitors as it would end up being the size of like a single 60". Have you thought about just getting a single large 4K TV?
 
10 feet for desktop use? Probably around 60 PPI (~0.4mm dot pitch). At that distance I agree with dragonageinquisition: go with a large 4k TV. The Panasonic TC-65AX800U has DisplayPort and supports 4k/60Hz or 1080p/120Hz. This is the 65" model and costs around $3k US, or around the same amount of money you would spend on 4 good 30"+ monitors. It has a dot pitch of 0.38mm.
 
Thanks for suggesting a single monitor when i think of that then a 55" 1080p with a dotpitch of 0.63mm is appealing. but i cant really imagine how 0.38mm would look vs 0.63mm. Would 0.63 be still be too pixelated at 10feet?

i mainly talk about 1080p cuz i read on tftcentral article that at 10 feet or such distance 4k and 1k dont make much difference. they both look equally sharp and i dont need the extra screen real estate beyond 1k on the desktop.
 
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In the terms of apparent size (FOV coverage), 24-inch viewed from 70 cm is comparable to 105-inch display viewed from 10 ft. Both are covering ~42° horizontally.

Anyway, you want anything lower than 2 arcminutes per pixel. At 10 ft, that's 15 PPI or higher.

Would 0.63 be still be too pixelated at 10 feet?
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No. That's 0.7 arcminutes per pixel. Not pixelated. By the way, 55-inch viewed from 10 feet is comparable to 12.7-inch display viewed from 70 cm distance.
 
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Randomoneh said:
In the terms of apparent size (FOV coverage), 24-inch viewed from 70 cm is comparable to 105-inch display viewed from 10 ft. Both are covering ~42° horizontally.

Anyway, you want anything lower than 2 arcminutes per pixel. At 10 ft, that's 15 PPI or higher.


No. That's 0.7 arcminutes per pixel. Not pixelated. By the way, 55-inch viewed from 10 feet is comparable to 12.7-inch display viewed from 70 cm distance.
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Perfect how do you do these calculations? im using a 24 inch monitor at 50 inches with a resolution of 1920x1080. So around a 60-65inch 1k display should be good for me?
 
You could probably get like 70" 1080p display at that distance, just making sure when you are on a TV to run the "Game" Mode it usually cuts processing to a minimum to reduce input lag.

Even a 70" will not being easy to browse the net with at 10 feet unless you increase text size and scaling alot.
 
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You could probably get like 70" 1080p display at that distance, just making sure when you are on a TV to run the "Game" Mode it usually cuts processing to a minimum to reduce input lag.

Even a 70" will not being easy to browse the net with at 10 feet unless you increase text size and scaling alot.
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but i thought if a 1k 24" display at 50cms translates to 105 inches 1k at 10 feet then 24" display at twice the distance around 100 cms should translate to a screen size of 52.5" at 10 feet?

im not sure how you are calculating so im guessing the best i can.
 
I'm basing this on personal experience. Also you can scale text easily in web browsers with ctrl+ but Windows menu text is going to look very small without increasing scaling and that will usually require a log-out to tweak.
 
dragonageinquisition said:
I'm basing this on personal experience. Also you can scale text easily in web browsers with ctrl+ but Windows menu text is going to look very small without increasing scaling and that will usually require a log-out to tweak.
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ok pretty cool thanks a bunch for the input very helpful. 5 stars.
 
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