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oskinny1
Joined: 10 Nov 2006
Location: Right behind you!
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| Thunndarr wrote: |
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| Wow, thanks Prince Adam!! |
I crap bigger than Prince Adam.
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The year: 1994. From out of space comes a runaway planet, hurtling between the Earth and the Moon, unleashing cosmic destruction! Man's civilization is cast in ruin!
Two thousand years later, Earth is reborn...
A strange new world rises from the old: a world of savagery, super science, and sorcery. But one man bursts his bonds to fight for justice! With his companions Ookla the Mok and Princess Ariel, he pits his strength, his courage, and his fabulous Sunsword against the forces of evil.
He is Thundarr, the Barbarian! |
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 crap. My bad, but you do look alike and Prince Adam is half Earthling. |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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If you don't mind...
How much was your projector and how heavy is it? (are you going to ship it home or carry it around with you?) Also, does it hook up to a laptop easily? Cheers! |
Mine was 1.3 million when I bought it, but there are much better models now for the same price. It isn't very heavy, but I don't remember offhand. I'm sure it's under 10 pounds. Most projectors have a variety of inputs so it really depends on what kind of outputs your laptop has. But, to answer your question, you can probably hook your laptop up to a projector. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Thunndarr wrote: |
| tfunk wrote: |
If you don't mind...
How much was your projector and how heavy is it? (are you going to ship it home or carry it around with you?) Also, does it hook up to a laptop easily? Cheers! |
Mine was 1.3 million when I bought it, but there are much better models now for the same price. It isn't very heavy, but I don't remember offhand. I'm sure it's under 10 pounds. Most projectors have a variety of inputs so it really depends on what kind of outputs your laptop has. But, to answer your question, you can probably hook your laptop up to a projector. |
Projector size, weight and even cost (!) are simply not hurdles to going big-screen anymore. For the most recent setups that I helped install, the screen/mount/cabling/Somfy system (screen, lighting & drapery controls) package cost more than the projector. And they were was still well under 10 million won total.
So as projectors shrink in size, weight and (almost) cost to about the size of any old DVD/VCR player that you'd have anyway, what it really comes down to, then, is just a question of your viewing taste and your viewing space.
Taste: Other than movies & sports broadcasts, this isn't for TV viewing. If you're not seriously into watching films on DVD or from a hard-drive, don't bother getting a projector & screen.
Space: This is even more subjective than taste, but I don't recommend a big screen for small rooms. Many people seem to think that all they need is some wall in some room in their home that's sufficiently large for projecting a massive image. But that's not enough. The room must ALSO:
1) afford a properly long viewing distance from your seat to the screen, or else watching a movie is as tough on the eyes and the neck as courtside seats at Wimbledon,
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2) allow maximum ambient light control, or else your image quality will be as dull, sucky and washed-out as an old rear-projection TV in a smokey sports-bar in the early '80s.
Three posters PMed me in the last few months about getting projector & screen setups. After seeing their room dimensions, I recommended that two of them forget projectors and just get a big LCD TV instead (one of them barely had 3m of viewing distance  ) and that advice comes from one of the biggest projector & screen fanboys around. |
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Gideon
Joined: 24 Feb 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:40 am Post subject: |
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I have to agree that lcd projectors are great to have. I bought an NEC lcd projector last winter and it rocks. great quality and really fun on the xbox.
I paid about 1.1 mil all in.. and the lamps for my projector cost about 250,000 won. That was the first thing i looked into before buying my projector, were the replacement lamps.
some are really expensive. |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:26 am Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| Thunndarr wrote: |
| tfunk wrote: |
If you don't mind...
How much was your projector and how heavy is it? (are you going to ship it home or carry it around with you?) Also, does it hook up to a laptop easily? Cheers! |
Mine was 1.3 million when I bought it, but there are much better models now for the same price. It isn't very heavy, but I don't remember offhand. I'm sure it's under 10 pounds. Most projectors have a variety of inputs so it really depends on what kind of outputs your laptop has. But, to answer your question, you can probably hook your laptop up to a projector. |
Projector size, weight and even cost (!) are simply not hurdles to going big-screen anymore. For the most recent setups that I helped install, the screen/mount/cabling/Somfy system (screen, lighting & drapery controls) package cost more than the projector. And they were was still well under 10 million won total.
So as projectors shrink in size, weight and (almost) cost to about the size of any old DVD/VCR player that you'd have anyway, what it really comes down to, then, is just a question of your viewing taste and your viewing space.
Taste: Other than movies & sports broadcasts, this isn't for TV viewing. If you're not seriously into watching films on DVD or from a hard-drive, don't bother getting a projector & screen.
Space: This is even more subjective than taste, but I don't recommend a big screen for small rooms. Many people seem to think that all they need is some wall in some room in their home that's sufficiently large for projecting a massive image. But that's not enough. The room must ALSO:
1) afford a properly long viewing distance from your seat to the screen, or else watching a movie is as tough on the eyes and the neck as courtside seats at Wimbledon,
AND
2) allow maximum ambient light control, or else your image quality will be as dull, sucky and washed-out as an old rear-projection TV in a smokey sports-bar in the early '80s.
Three posters PMed me in the last few months about getting projector & screen setups. After seeing their room dimensions, I recommended that two of them forget projectors and just get a big LCD TV instead (one of them barely had 3m of viewing distance ) and that advice comes from one of the biggest projector & screen fanboys around. |
This is all good information, but I would hazard a guess that your tastes may have become a bit more rarified than those of us in the lower income brackets. (No offense intended, if accusing someone of making a lot of money can be considered offensive.)
My room is far from ideal, however, I've been forced to make the best of a relatively bad situation, and even though my room has 4 white walls and isn't really all that large, I find that the image I'm projecting to be quite good. Now, this all comes down to taste, as you mentioned, and perhaps this is where I find that your tastes (as a true connoisseur) may have divereged somewhat from the mainstream (as I assume I am.) Givent the choice between the 30-40 inch LCD TVs I've seen, and the very, very budget oriented projector setup I've got, I know what I would choose everytime.
That is not to say I disagree with what you've written. I think it's all excellent advice. However, for many of us, the choice is not between a great LCD and a great projector setup. It's a choice of a small to middling LCD and a projector setup that will get us by until we graduate to a full house back home. |
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