Home theater

victor

victor

Antediluvian as Feck
Orderite
Dunno if this is really the place to ask, but I´m planning to get a home theater setup. It´s mostly for my Xbox 360 and the occasional DVD movie, because I rarely watch TV. This means getting a HD projector, but I´m unsure what model to get. I can go as far up as $1400 for the projector alone.
 
OK I well it depends on a couple of things:

A: throw distance, how far away from the wall will the unit be

b:will it be mounted?

c: how dark can your room become.

d: do you feel like paying $500 every time you globe blows. depending one how much use this may happen in the first year.
 
I'm not going to use it for watching TV, just for gaming and movies, so I won't have to replace the lamp that often.
 
I would get a 37/40 inches LCD with HDMI and some coolio processing with the money, but it really depends on the size of your room. I hate the idea of changing globes too...
 
My living room is huuuuuge, as seen in this picture;

PA040045.jpg


LCD TVs are the same price range, and you get a smaller picture, so meh. I don't think the globe changing occurs more than once a year, if you don't overuse your PJ.
 
If you are going to use that wall, then no doubt a 42" Plasma would work better with a nice 5.1 setup to make SOME REAL BIG NOISE!!!! :)

it´s too close for a projector man, but if you want one at least ask for a try out, and see if it fits, many stores will let you do that (where are you from anyway?)
 
The Overseer said:
My living room is huuuuuge, as seen in this picture;
Click to expand...
That's pretty small according to my standards. The size of your living room (what I can see on the pic) is about the size of my writing room. I would call that cosy, not huuuuuge.

The Overseer said:
LCD TVs are the same price range, and you get a smaller picture, so meh. I don't think the globe changing occurs more than once a year, if you don't overuse your PJ.
Click to expand...
Don't buy a HD projector. My dad's got one and it sucks, even though it's supposed to be one of the best out there (it's a Sony, don't ask me which model exactly 'cause I haven't got a clue). He payed around 60 000 Belgian francs for it (which is around 1500 euro). He has had the projector for over a year now and uses it quite frequently, yet the lamp has not gone dead on him yet. It's the quality of the image that's disappointing. When you get one that's worth 1500 euro or 1500 $, you're not going to get the best quality, you know, especially not in a small living room: in my parent's living room (which still looks bigger than the room on your pic), you can actually see the pixels when the footage is being projected on the wall. That gives a distorted image, not something a real obsessed film fan like my father can laugh about.

They also bought a plasma screen last month. He's more than optimistic about that thing.
 
alec said:
That's pretty small according to my standards. The size of your living room (what I can see on the pic) is about the size of my writing room. I would call that cosy, not huuuuuge.
Click to expand...

yes, because you are making money with painting shit with hairy penises and stuff and call it a children´s book. and then you go licking your book publisher´s toe very endearing.

:roll:

@overseer better watch out that nobody can see you through this window, when you make dirty stuff. otherwise somebody other will be your overseer. and yeah, better watch your toes.

:roll:
 
http://www.xbox360forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19147

Not according to these guys. The living room is much bigger than on the pic, it's just that it got compressed when I downloaded it. Maybe your dad has a LCD projector, I'm looking into DLP right now. Maybe he had trouble installing it.

Of course I'm going to try and test it, but there aren't too many stores around here.
 
No, no ,no... look go on and try games and movies on your own, on a 40" LCD, a 42" plasma, HD Ready, and check the difference in brilliance and contrast to a sub $1400 projector. Really try them, and remember a white wall doesn't provide the image you can get on a white screen, and that would be even harder for your budget.

So my advice is writing down the distance between the sofa and the wall, and then see how things work by yourself, not by indication of some guy on the net.


more info here

http://www.highdefforum.com/
http://www.avforums.com/forums/index.php?s=510c840fcef043320c13a796d2f62bfc
 
The Overseer said:
http://www.xbox360forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19147

Not according to these guys. The living room is much bigger than on the pic, it's just that it got compressed when I downloaded it. Maybe your dad has a LCD projector, I'm looking into DLP right now. Maybe he had trouble installing it.

Of course I'm going to try and test it, but there aren't too many stores around here.
Click to expand...
Nope, it's really too close to get an image from it that's better than a HDTV would give you. So: get a plasma or LCD TV.
 
The sofa can be moved pretty easily. I could just put it against the opposing wall. I´d say wall to wall it´s at least 4 meters. 6 meters between balcony window and wall.
 
The Overseer said:
The sofa can be moved pretty easily. I could just put it against the opposing wall. I´d say wall to wall it´s at least 4 meters. 6 meters between balcony window and wall.
Click to expand...
As I said, 4 meters isn't far enough to get a decent enough image to warrant getting a projector, 6 might be.
 
alec said:
The Overseer said:
My living room is huuuuuge, as seen in this picture;
Click to expand...
That's pretty small according to my standards. The size of your living room (what I can see on the pic) is about the size of my writing room. I would call that cosy, not huuuuuge.

The Overseer said:
LCD TVs are the same price range, and you get a smaller picture, so meh. I don't think the globe changing occurs more than once a year, if you don't overuse your PJ.
Click to expand...
Don't buy a HD projector. My dad's got one and it sucks, even though it's supposed to be one of the best out there (it's a Sony, don't ask me which model exactly 'cause I haven't got a clue). He payed around 60 000 Belgian francs for it (which is around 1500 euro). He has had the projector for over a year now and uses it quite frequently, yet the lamp has not gone dead on him yet. It's the quality of the image that's disappointing. When you get one that's worth 1500 euro or 1500 $, you're not going to get the best quality, you know, especially not in a small living room: in my parent's living room (which still looks bigger than the room on your pic), you can actually see the pixels when the footage is being projected on the wall. That gives a distorted image, not something a real obsessed film fan like my father can laugh about.

They also bought a plasma screen last month. He's more than optimistic about that thing.
Click to expand...
Sony makes a few good projectors. They have a few decent home theater projector...the VPL-HS60. All the other ones are way more than your dad spent. That said, it's a few years old and it's LCD based. It's not bad...and it should atleast look decent. If it doesn't, then something is not setup right. That's about as simple as it gets. If you don't have that projector, then you have a business projector...in which case you're trying to use a projector meant for powerpoint for movies and home theater instead. Calibrate the projector...it'll make a world of difference.

Also, if you're seeing pixels it means that your screen size is too large for your viewing distance. Make the screen smaller or sit further back. It's known as the Screen Door Effect.

Lastly, I'm not sure what your standards are...but I go by scientific ones. My two sources:
Sound and Vision
THX and SMPTE Standards
 
if you're seeing pixels it means that your screen size is too large for your viewing distance.
Click to expand...

Exactly what i suspect Overseer would find :), if his room can't cope with 60" screensize why bother to have to deal with inferior brightness and contrast (even with DLP) particularly if he doesn't have a nice white screen?

If he finds another room then fine, i like the cinema like feel of a projector, but in that room?

Let him try first and make up what's best, i have my doubts but it is his money.

Just...test...the...various...options Overseer :)
 
If my camera still worked, I'd take a decent pic of my living room and you'd see that it's significantly larger than it appears to be.

Of course I'm going to test a projector before buying one, d'uh.
 
Yeah, trouble is the projectors I want to get aren't in stores here, I have to buy them off the net. But I have to test if I can stand DLP first, some people have problems with it.
 
Buying projectors from the net?... Not testing and making comparisons?...

You're on your own, i've removed you from my will!


Well anyway good luck, you'll need it, do give your impressions when you get the hardware.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top