OT - CRT projectors
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That's a good thing. You need to be like 10 meters from A7s to get the full benefit. Nice speakers, just not practical in a normal size room. Your projector looks very nice. I think yours is bigger than mine.
We're watching the last season of Breaking Bad this week. Amazon streaming quality is much better than Netflix. The picture from the CRT is still impressing me every time I watch. Seems like the need for fine tuning is easing up, things are getting pretty stable.
Decided to go with three S.E.X. amps to get the surround setup going. Hope to have the audio system fully operational by the end of the month.
We're watching the last season of Breaking Bad this week. Amazon streaming quality is much better than Netflix. The picture from the CRT is still impressing me every time I watch. Seems like the need for fine tuning is easing up, things are getting pretty stable.
Decided to go with three S.E.X. amps to get the surround setup going. Hope to have the audio system fully operational by the end of the month.
The project keeps moving sideways. The two architects and the builder were here yesterday and we settled many things. However tonight we watched a movie with the kids and I realized my current tv room is just perfect. Less isolated and would require some light treatment but a much cheaper and easier project. The ceiling is too high but i already found a solution to mount the transformer. The audio is installed as is the video equipment. I would need an electric screen to unwrap in front of the tv. And having the room upstairs isn't a negative.
The current seating is perfectly located for a 96" wide screen which is the max Curt recommended. And the throw distance would allow me to fix the projector from the back wall instead than from the ceiling.
I may some day build the other room but for now it looks like I'm sticking to the one I have.
This may change overnight though!
The current seating is perfectly located for a 96" wide screen which is the max Curt recommended. And the throw distance would allow me to fix the projector from the back wall instead than from the ceiling.
I may some day build the other room but for now it looks like I'm sticking to the one I have.
This may change overnight though!
It makes a lot of sense to simply get a screen up in the existing room and play around with the setup for a while. 96" is what I have. If the room is blacked out you could go bigger, but I suspect the picture would start to seem not sharp enough. That is my only minor compliant about the CRT. The awesome contrast and color from it far outweigh the slightly soft image.
Caucasian Blackplate said:
Man, we have been fighting with this for years. DSL is not available in the hood, so we are stuck. I have found that the browser can really help with streaming. Safari and Firefox are crap. I like Opera, but Microsoft products, including server software, do not play well with it--maybe because Opera spanked MS in the courts over IE. Chrome does work relatively well. I have no idea why, but playing with the Audio Midi Setup settings in OS X can have a profound effect on the picture quality. Anytime the image has a black/green pixelated look then it is time to go into the AMS and reset to either a lower or higher sample rate, most of the time it wants a lower setting.
Surprised that there has been a class action suit against Comcast/Xfinity. In the Comcast workplace, workers are blocked from sites that compete with Comcast. I upgraded to HD and had a question about EyeTV and the worker could not access anything on it.
Today I pulled myself together and placed the projector in a temporary setup to start trying it. The first thing I noticed was that at the 107" throw distance that Curt calculated I was getting a smaller image. Checked the manual and it says that for a 96" width the distance should be 127" instead. I pulled it back and voila. Unfortunately in the big installation it will be closer to 107 than 127 so it may not fill the full screen.
Anyway. We noticed that the image came and left and it's clearly the hdmi jack. Until it left completely. Now I only get a No Vsync message. I'm really hoping it's the card. I know I'm not the one with issues with these cards
Another problem is that although the fan is very silent something vibrates. Maybe something got loose on shipping? Will look at that.
On the positive side I learned to reverse the throw (it's on the floor now) and did a lot of adjustments after the signal left. Its easier to adjust than what I expected!
Anyway. We noticed that the image came and left and it's clearly the hdmi jack. Until it left completely. Now I only get a No Vsync message. I'm really hoping it's the card. I know I'm not the one with issues with these cards
Another problem is that although the fan is very silent something vibrates. Maybe something got loose on shipping? Will look at that.
On the positive side I learned to reverse the throw (it's on the floor now) and did a lot of adjustments after the signal left. Its easier to adjust than what I expected!
Grainger49
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Xavier,
You continue to amaze me! You 'da Man!
You continue to amaze me! You 'da Man!
Here's where I'm at. Blank screen photo is with the screen set to the full 16:9 96" diagonal format. The Hobbit screen shot is with the masks set to 2.35:1. The camera always struggles with this kind of shot, the image is much better in person. Still need to install all the speakers and finish cable routing. And I see I need to do quite a bit of touch up to the 10 year old paint job (doesn't show in the dark...). With the kids off to college we are really enjoying having a two seat theater.
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A little update - after some conversation with Curt Palme I decided to go from my ten year old slightly pearlescent screen to a matte white screen. Of course it had to be another DIY screen. So I went back to the AVS forum thread on DIY screens. Happily there has been a some balance struck on that forum between a few large personalities dominating the place with their seat of the pants designs and a few thoughtful people who have come along and actually taken measurements of many of the more popular DIY screen choices. What floated to the top was Glidden GLN-9000. It's a $10 quart of paint from Home Depot that was measured as the most neutral screen white the measurer had ever come across.
Down came the screen, off came the velvet frame, and on rolled nearly a quart of the GLN-9000 in two coats. Even before I had the painting done I was getting stoked as the new white was positively dazzling compared to the old yellowish pearlescent coat. Reassembled and back on the wall the image is just a knockout. Having gotten the yellowish tint out of the screen required a bit of tweaking of the color levels, and once I had it close - wow. My concern that the blacks might be a little less black was 180 out. The blacks are even more black than from the old screen. I may actually have to up the brightness (which is actually the black level control) a bit.
So if you have a light controlled front projection HT that can handle a white screen, this movie screen for a sawbuck paint is da' bomb.
Down came the screen, off came the velvet frame, and on rolled nearly a quart of the GLN-9000 in two coats. Even before I had the painting done I was getting stoked as the new white was positively dazzling compared to the old yellowish pearlescent coat. Reassembled and back on the wall the image is just a knockout. Having gotten the yellowish tint out of the screen required a bit of tweaking of the color levels, and once I had it close - wow. My concern that the blacks might be a little less black was 180 out. The blacks are even more black than from the old screen. I may actually have to up the brightness (which is actually the black level control) a bit.
So if you have a light controlled front projection HT that can handle a white screen, this movie screen for a sawbuck paint is da' bomb.
While we were slogging through the epic battle of putting up a new website I was distracting myself during the 'hurry up and wait' moments by ordering some blu rays for the newly revamped theater. Trying to build a modest collection of well remastered classics, like 2001, Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, etc. I also picked up a fave that is a lot newer - Sin City. It was the first to arrive and we watched it last night. This high contrast film noir is just amazing coming from a CRT projector.
"Kill him for me, Marv. Kill him good."
"Kill him for me, Marv. Kill him good."
Watched Casablanca night before last. It is as good a blu ray remaster as the reviews suggest, really clean but still having the look of film. Watched Forbidden Planet last night, and once again it is a really nice remaster with a great deal of subtle color and clarity, but without taking away from the film feel. Sound is not yet up to the quality of the picture. I've been using a crummy Extigy-TOSLINKed-to-Samsung BDP-1500 lashup to simulate surround on the all Blumenstein speaker setup, through two Stereomours and a S.E.X. amp. Bought a used Panasonic DMP-BD80 player on ebay last night for cheap. It is one of the few players besides the Oppos that has analog 7.1 outputs and handles DTS-HD Master Audio, so I can run directly into the amps. That should get me another step towards the finished system I have in mind. For those who might wonder - with five Orcas and three subs in the room it can get surprisingly loud.
