Projectors & home theatres

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camarade

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Do you have some sort of home theatre?

I had a projector a couple years ago (a 720p one) and got rid of it quickly... could see those big chunky pixels from a mile away. BUT now decent 1080p projectors are really quite affordable... but then you need a GOOD screen that costs as much... oh well. :tongue:
 
I was going to buy a 1080p projector back in 2008, but decided to get a 50 inch Samsung Plasma instead. Also 1080p.
It cost a fortune but that was back when I could still pay my bills.

My Yamaha reciever from 2003 has finally died. I moved with it nine times in as many years. The AudioPro speakers still works though so if I only had the money I'd get myself a new reciever and possibly one of them region free Oppa blu-ray players.
 
I had an optoma hd65 projecting about 95 inches in my last house. Only 720p but it looked awesome. DLP technology. The only issue was that I am somewhat rainbow sensitive so I could see those artifacts from time to time (the color separates for brief flashes). Just bought a new house and have an Epson 6500ub projecting 1080p at 106 inches and it blows the optoma out of the water pretty much. And it's LCD tech so no rainbows. You actually don't need a good screen with either technology as projectors these days are really bright. Even just painting white on the wall gives you a great image, provided you're in a dark room. I bought a screen only so I could mount my center speaker behind it, but it was cheap, only 300 bucks.
 
I'm quite content with 480p. To my eyes it looks far more like a film print than the over-enhanced flat-screens. Granted the vast majority of my collection is dvd, so there is no scaling involved, even vhs looks not too bad on dlp.

Maybe someday when I'm flush again, I'll go 1080p, probably about the time when everyone thinks they need 8k. By that time prints will be long forgotten, and I'll be able to stream new releases and not be bothered by teens texting during the show.
 
dop16mm said:
I'm quite content with 480p. To my eyes it looks far more like a film print than the over-enhanced flat-screens. Granted the vast majority of my collection is dvd, so there is no scaling involved, even vhs looks not too bad on dlp.
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There are controls on flat screens so you can unenhance the image. If you're going by the crap you see in the store, they always put it on the worst possible settings (dynamic picture with 120 hz enabled). Believe me, a good flatscreen or projected 1080p image looks 100 times more like a film print than a DVD. Even DVD played on a blu-ray player (which usually have good built-in scalers), looks superior on 1080p.
 
1080 has a true 24P frame rate. 480 was only ever interlaced, 60i. I went from a 720P DLP to a Epson LCD. I preferred the colors on the DLP at first, but the Epson has really grown on me.
 
WhiteMonkey said:
1080 has a true 24P frame rate. 480 was only ever interlaced, 60i. I went from a 720P DLP to a Epson LCD. I preferred the colors on the DLP at first, but the Epson has really grown on me.
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I bought a colorimeter and did a real calibration and wow, what a difference it made. Colors pop like DLP and the image seems punchier. At the very least, you can do a basic calibration with this free disc--

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=948496
 
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