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I recently bought a Samsung KS8000 55" for a monitor, and I have to say it is incredible. Going back to standard monitors at work was painful. There is so much space to arrange windows and nothing has to be stacked.

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How far do you sit away from it? I can't imagine sitting with a 55" monitor less than a metre from my face.

My optometrist said that you should sit at least a meter (roughly an arms length) with a regular size monitor. For this I'd say you probably want it even further away.

A meter away? Who sits that far from their monitor? I bet your optometrist doesn't. Standard viewing distance for a monitor is more like 20-26 inches (51-66 cm). OSHA guidelines are "at least 20 inches away".

Also your arms are not a meter long. Arms that long would imply a height of about 8 feet (2.4 meters) assuming fairly normal proportions.

I also have a 55" Vizio P55-C1 on a standing desk. It's on cheap VESA legs to drop it down to 0.5" off the desk (the included stand puts it about 3" off the surface). It's on an iMovR thermodesk elite with an 83" by 30" top and has a BenQ BL3201PH on either side in portrait mode. Using 1x scaling in windows looks just right. The only issue with the Vizio P55-c1 is that it won't do true 4:4:4 chroma at 4k, but input lag is great, especially at 120hz when running 1080p for games (I play Overwatch at a fairly high level).

1x scaling factor is the key for reasonable viewing distances with 4K. Consider that it's basically quad (2x2 setup) 1080p monitors, and compare the size of 24" 1080p screens in such a configuration with a single 4K 55".

~3 feet. It is a little close. I was going to buy the 49" model but when I went to the store the 55 and 49 were the same price and I couldn't in good conscious spend the same amount for a smaller monitor.

Edit: I also use it with my Xbox one and then I push my chair back another 2 feet, so I'm ~5 feet away

I have the 60" KS8000 and it is pretty awesome, find it too big to use as a monitor. I'd probably look at the smallest size they make (which seems to be 49"). Do you find the visual quality and uniformity to be adequate as a monitor? The smallest entry in their new 2017 QLED line seems to be 55", which again for me would be a problem (something in 40-45" range would be ideal, I think).

I agree with it being too large. I was going to get the 49" but the 55" was the same price at the time and I couldn't bring myself to pay the same for a smaller screen.

I have to say it looks great. I haven't noticed any problems visually with it and it has very uniform color. There is one annoyance. There is a PC mode setting to get 4:4:4 Chroma subsampling which is awesome, but if your PC disconnects while the monitor is on, it defaults back to the TV mode. So I find myself changing the setting every time I boot up my machine (Which is daily as I have an SSD so its like a 30 second boot, and I like to shut it down to save power while I'm away.)

Best this about it is I can have 3 editor up each with 160 lines of code at 100 char width and still have half the screen open for documentation or other things. I haven't been able to fill it completely yet and nothing is every hidden behind another window.

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