Television viewer

A viewing system for use by a single viewer of a single electronic display comprising a projection lens having an aperture, a limited, light diverging screen viewed by the viewer, the screen having a Fresnel lens means incorporated therein with a front face and a rear face which optically faces the projection lens, wherein the projection lens projects the light image from the single electronic display onto the Fresnel lens means, the Fresnel lens means comprising a first set of parallel, straight lens Fresnel lens elements on the rear face and a second set of parallel, straight line Fresnel lens elements on the front face which are arranged orthogonal to the first elements, at least some of said first and second elements being contoured to act as a combined simple field lens for focusing an image of the projection lens aperture at an exit pupil located at a predetermined viewing distance from the screen while simultaneously spreading the image over an oval shaped area having predetermined minor and major axial dimensions and which is contained in a plane, parallel to the screen and located at the predetermined viewing distance from the screen, with substantially all of the light image passing through the projection lens hitting the exit pupil.