Best TV postion to minimise reflections
Posted by: Avalin on 17 March 2008
We are in the process of building a new house.
There will be a dedicated music (listening room).
We are about to specify exactly where the plug socket, fm and Tv sockets will located in the sitting room.
If you can visualise looking towards the narrow end of the long sitting room, the left wall will be solid, the narrow end wall will be mostly (possibly all) solid with a wood burning stove positioned in the middle, and the right hand wall of the sitting room will be glass with closable, adjustable external blinds and internal sliding translucent blinds.
My question is this. From your collective experience of TV screen positioning, is it better to have the screen facing away from a major light source to prevent reflection, or have the light source to one side or none of the above.
Please note that this is not a cinema room, but I am just trying to work out where not to site the TV so as to minimise reflections and optimise ease of viewing.
Screen will most likely be an LCD.
Looking forward to your views
Geoff
There will be a dedicated music (listening room).
We are about to specify exactly where the plug socket, fm and Tv sockets will located in the sitting room.
If you can visualise looking towards the narrow end of the long sitting room, the left wall will be solid, the narrow end wall will be mostly (possibly all) solid with a wood burning stove positioned in the middle, and the right hand wall of the sitting room will be glass with closable, adjustable external blinds and internal sliding translucent blinds.
My question is this. From your collective experience of TV screen positioning, is it better to have the screen facing away from a major light source to prevent reflection, or have the light source to one side or none of the above.
Please note that this is not a cinema room, but I am just trying to work out where not to site the TV so as to minimise reflections and optimise ease of viewing.
Screen will most likely be an LCD.
Looking forward to your views
Geoff
Choosing the right screen is very important!
Stay away from those glossy displays or displays covered with glass when you are delicate about reflections!
They are very fashionable at the moment (specially with computers). The contrast and colors may be a tad better. But it doesn't help me when I can't see the picture at all because of the reflections...
My vote goes for a matte screen surface (the frame is almost everywhere glossy black nowadays).
At my place, the windows are on one side. I guess facing away from the light would be best to avoid reflections. But I can't put my naim speakers in front of the windows, and I wanted the TV to be between the front speakers for homecinema reasons. The LCD is installed on a Vogel's wallmount which you can push back to the wall with a scissors-like mechanism (= park position for 2 channel music) and tilt horizontal and vertical.
All the best with you new home
Adrian
Stay away from those glossy displays or displays covered with glass when you are delicate about reflections!
They are very fashionable at the moment (specially with computers). The contrast and colors may be a tad better. But it doesn't help me when I can't see the picture at all because of the reflections...
My vote goes for a matte screen surface (the frame is almost everywhere glossy black nowadays).
At my place, the windows are on one side. I guess facing away from the light would be best to avoid reflections. But I can't put my naim speakers in front of the windows, and I wanted the TV to be between the front speakers for homecinema reasons. The LCD is installed on a Vogel's wallmount which you can push back to the wall with a scissors-like mechanism (= park position for 2 channel music) and tilt horizontal and vertical.
All the best with you new home
Adrian