I recently went through this exercise, but it involved cutting up large pieces of cardboard and holding them up against the wall while my wife looked on disapprovingly.
Clever, but steal some ideas from here:<p><a href="http://tvcalculator.com/" rel="nofollow">http://tvcalculator.com/</a><p>Compare 4:3 and 16:9 content in the box as an option.<p>I use that to try to figure out what to get to replace my 32" 4:3 CRT TV (yes it's a dinosaur - I'm waiting for black friday). Oh and the answer is 40" 16:9 will replace a 32" 4:3 TV for viewing 4:3 content sometimes.
Awesomely clever. Can you do something about the browser history bloat? A couple drags of the slider and I'm stuck on the page forever, that might piss people off.
I'd love to see a compare feature. For example, someone with a 40" screen might want to see how that compares to a 60" screen. Right now, you can drag back and forth to try and get an idea of the comparative size. Having two sliders would be great to overlay the smaller size on top of the larger size. You could then also display the relative screen area of each -- 60" is 50% larger than the 40" screen diagonally, but 125% larger in terms of area which is what really matters.
My wife is a hobbyist artist and is thinking of displaying some of her art work in online shops. SHe was talking last week about a technology such as this that would enable her to demonstrate her artwork in its intended environment, in the same way as this project for the TVs. I knew this could be done, just didnt know how. I'd be curious to learn how this is achieved, or if there are any services out there that provide this service?
Seeing the title, I thought this was like SnapShop (<a href="http://www.snapshopinc.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.snapshopinc.com/</a>), where you hold your iPhone, point at the wall, and you see the picture with the TV added, as in virtual reality.<p>Could you make it like that? It would be so much simpler than having to take a picture, upload it, etc...
Looks like you've been featured on LifeHacker. Not bad for a weekend project.<p><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5829786/tv-size-matters-lets-you-try-new-tvs-on-for-size-before-you-buy" rel="nofollow">http://lifehacker.com/5829786/tv-size-matters-lets-you-try-n...</a>
I expected a VR-type application where you have a reference something the user has to place on his wall and then he can move backwards, film the wall and see the device rendered on the wall as if it was there.