I agree too. There is still a screendoor effect with my setup, but I offset that slight annoyance against the considerable cost of stepping up to XGA.

Ken Silver
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~1993 SL500, glistening triple black, xenons: http://www.kensilver.com/SL
~1999 SLK 230 Kompressor, silver /black, CD, immaculate (my wife's)
~1991 Daimler, shiny grey / grey leather, best in country!
~ex 350SL, 230E, 280E, MX5 and a lot of other makes not nearly as nice.

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1000 lumans or beter 400:1 or higher and a 1000+ hours bulb.
try best buy for new with warranty our ebay for used lots of people get rid of there when all that's wrong is they need a new
bulb they tend to go blue when the bulb dies
go to www.rooftop235.com for more info clik on severses




happey hunting tangent

Hi all.

A couple of my (multiple) jobs are as a corporate AV technician and as a consultant specifying and installing AV systems in museums and exhibitions around New Zealand. I have played with a LOT of projection systems over the years. I can say that the only way to see if you like something is to try them out in your home! I have seen 200 ANSI lumens SVGA projectors have more depth and subjectively better pictures than 4000 ANSI UXGA ones. (You just have to have a darker room..)

There has been a lot of battling between DLP and LCD over the last few years, and I have to say that the only really spectacular DLPs I have seen cost NZ$50,000+. LCD is a bit older technology and a bit more developed (so cheaper too) but again, you're spending about NZ$15,000 before it gets anywhere close to a filmlike quality.

If I was in the market for a home projector myself, I don't think i could be satified with anything but a fantastic picture, and I haven't yet found an affordable projector that can do this. Almost all of the digital projectors on the market are designed around the RGB style computer input and they "scan-convert" any input video (DVD etc.) signal to their native resolution as a digital format within. In some ways, what KenSilver does (running DVDs from a computer) makes sense, but video is still a very low resolution format, still only with 25 frames per second / 625 lines of resolution in PAL (30/525 for NTSC). DVD can only do 720 x 480 pixels in 16:9 anyway. That is it's native resolution. Running from a computer just means the conversion is done within the computer rather than the projector. The very good (read expensive) projectors have amazing scan convertors in them and the difference is palpable. The video is MUCH more stable and the colours are correct. Current DVD is never going to be a reference format though, but at the moment it is the best source format most people have. It's a shame that so many people are satisfied with it.

The ultimate projection system for video format is still the old 3 gun CRT system. They are always going to be more expensive though. They are never going to sound as bright as the LCD or DLP type, but really, unless you are using the projector in a corporate boardroom, brightness is not really an issue. CRTs have practically no resolution limit - it depends on the source material and processing electronics. Also, because they dont use a single hot lamp, they sometimes don't need fans to cool them. After living with some little corporate style LCDs and DLPs at home that sound like little jet planes idling away (well almost..) I can say that dramatic movies with lots of silence just don't sound the same.

This is way too much rambling anyway, and it is 2 am here. So that is all. (for now)

:-)