fazz said:
I don't get it, who would be playing video games while you are on a cruise ship? |
With a screen that big? I would be going on the cruise ship just to play video games!
@Hus. Grow up and stop blatantly trolling.
Wow amazing that looks like fun punching people while playing video games on a HUGE SCREEN!!! I might even punch somebody on purpose lol
| stof said: That's an impressive TV, But I used to play N64 on a projector all the time. Oh sure, the resolution was nowhere as good... But who cares! Mario Kart was HUGE! Anyways, the difference between that first picture and the Wii boxing one looks like it's a hell of a lot more than an extra 40 inches. And by the way, the picture was taken from a cruise ship, as one series of cruise ships has installed Wii's in their ships. How's that for great advertising! |
That is because the 200" one is widescreen while 240" one is not.
The measure that companies use for TV is the diagonal. Our perception of the TV size is given by the picture area.
If you get any TV measured by the diagonal, the greatest area you will get is if it has a square projection. From there, the wider you make the screen, the less area you get and the smaller your TV viewing area will be.
Take my 32" 4:3 TV for example. It has a viewing area of 491 square inches. If it was a square TV, I would have a viewing area of 512 square inches. If it was 16:9 (widescreen), it would have a viewing area of 437 square inches. Everyone should know that a square inch is a 1" x 1" square. In this case, if I had gone widescreen, I would have lost 54 of these little squares. Quite a lot, I think.
Now let's get to those two examples. I will suppose the first picture is a 200" 16:9 screen and the second one is a 240" 4:3. The first screen has a visible area of 17,091 square inches. The second screen has 27,648 square inches. A difference of more than 10,000 of those little squares.
That is why one looks so much bigger than the other. 
To have some more fun with these numbers. If you picked the second screen and used it to display a widescreen TV (black bar on top and bottom), you would still have a viewing area of 20,736 square inches. This is equivalent to a 220" widescreen TV.
fazz said:
I don't get it, who would be playing video games while you are on a cruise ship? |
You're on a ship for a week, maybe longer. It's all about the luxury inside. Good food, Big pools, Hot tubs, Movie theatres, swanky bars, Giant screen videogame with interactive controls. You know, that sort of thing.Â
It's brilliant in my mind. Just imagine coming back home and telling people about the neat locations, the warm weather, the time you and your nephew played this amazing tennis game where you actually get to swing a raquet and it's all on this GIANT tv!
I'm a mod, come to me if there's mod'n to do.
Chrizum is the best thing to happen to the internet, Period.
Serves me right for challenging his sales predictions!
Bet with dsisister44: Red Steel 2 will sell 1 million within it's first 365 days of sales.
Wow, the Mii is like 15 feet tall =P That would be a lot of fun to play Mario or MP3 on that thing!
PS - Come on Hus, its a light hearted thread, can't you just give it a rest?
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Holy crap I want either of those setups. I mean for the love of hairless monkeys, I want a tv-wall!!
Hus was just mad because he couldn't find a picture of anyone playing PS3 on a 280" screen.
![[Prototype]](https://www.vgchartz.com/games/boxart/2846586AmericaFrontccc.jpg)
| z64dan said: Hus was just mad because he couldn't find a picture of anyone playing PS3 on a 280" screen. |
quick quick, find someone playing 360 with a 205 inch screen
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