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Pitch guide

Pitch guide

Enter the viewing distance and choose where and how you use the screen. You see which pitch range fits and which screens go with it.

metres

The distance from the nearest viewer to the screen, in metres.

Where is the screen?
How do you use it?

Recommended pitch

P2.5Comfortable up to
P5Upper limit

At a viewing distance of 5 metres you view comfortably up to P2.5. Up to P5 is just acceptable; coarser and you see the individual pixels.

Matching screens

2 screens fit

Sport and traffic are project work and are not part of this guide. Get in touch for sport and traffic projects.

The rule of thumb

The minimum viewing distance in metres is roughly the pitch in millimetres. You view comfortably from about twice that distance. It is a rule of thumb, not a standard: content with small text needs a finer pitch, ambient visuals can go coarser.

Read more about pitch and viewing distance

Rule of thumb: viewing distance per pixel pitch
PitchMinimum viewing distanceComfortable from
P1.251.3 m2.5 m
P1.951.9 m3.9 m
P2.62.6 m5.2 m
P3.913.9 m7.8 m
P55 m10 m
P6.676.7 m13.3 m
P1010 m20 m
P1616 m32 m