1080p Goodness - when you need it

I am a nut about my television viewing experience. I was a projectionist at the movie theater in college and after that, I have avidly followed all of the technical minutia of movie technology. Dolby Digital, DTS, HDTV, etc.

I have finally found a good technical write up of when resolution differences can be viewed and calculating optimum viewing distances. The short answer is that if your TV screen is small and/or the distances far away, you can't resolve any pixel differences between resolution. However, in that area of 50-70 inches and 5-9 feet, the differences are noticeable.

All of this is getting more and more important to me as I don't find myself enjoying going out to movies as much as the crowds are more and more unruly. Talking, cell phones, poor framing (when the film is not aligned in the projector so you see too much top or bottom of the frame) or masking (the black curtains are not in the proper place to border the picture) all distract me from the immersion experience....