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Hi everyone. Hope you all had a good holiday(for those of us celebrating christmas).

I thought I'd post a couple of images of my projections. This is with my 2800 lumen overhead(360W ENX) and 640x480 panel.

Zardoz: My screen is a 4'x8' piece of melamine(I think... can't remember exactly what it's called) that I got from Home Depot for $12. Works pretty well. Certainly better than a sheet!! 😉

The projected image in these pictures is about 75-80" diagonal.

Here's what the camera got:

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Same picture with increased brightness due to photoshop:

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#26
Axeman

I'm looking for a much bigger image than 4feet tall, I'm using an ATI TV Wonder card to bring signals other than DVD into my HTPC. With the TV card I can use "video desktop" which gives me a gorgeous picture that fills my living room wall, and I can get even bigger with very little image degradation. When I refered to "brightness and contrast" I meant controlling these aspects on the LCD panel, not "fixing" my screen pictures with photoshop. All my pics are shown "as shot" with the only editing being to make them small enough to post.

zardoz
 
#28
What we really need to do is determine how we measure our screen's. The manufacturer's seem to quote them as width by height, where as many HTphile's quote their diagonal image size. Who is correct? The folks that build them? or those that use them?

As for the issue of Imperial vs Metric, use whichever turns your crank. We were all brought up using one standard or another.

The shoe that is comfortable is the one that fit's YOU best.

zardoz
 
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zardoz said:
What we really need to do is determine how we measure our screen's. The manufacturer's seem to quote them as width by height, where as many HTphile's quote their diagonal image size. Who is correct? The folks that build them? or those that use them?
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the diagonal image size is bigger, which is why all monitor manufacturers prefer it. but both are correct, so long as the aspect ratio and the pythogorean formula are known 🙂

As for the issue of Imperial vs Metric, use whichever turns your crank. We were all brought up using one standard or another.

The shoe that is comfortable is the one that fit's YOU best.

zardoz
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certainly, but i was brought up imperialist (america - ha, bad pun) but prefer metric 🙂 foot-pounds?! SLUGS?!
 
#30
Zardoz:

I understood your original meaning of changing the brightness and contrast. I just offered my screenshot with and without software brightness for those who would like to get a better idea of what 640x480 looks like in terms of quality. 😛 (I looked up your panel and I envy your SVGA and nice contrast ratio! Nice find! 😎) As you can see from the first shot, my camera doesn't pick up the image very well, even though in reality it is adequately bright.

Re: screens- I just thought I'd let you know about a decent screen material that is very very cheap. I too would be going for larger screen sizes, except the dimensions/features of my viewing room prevent it. 🙁
 
#31
Axeman

I share the problems with viewing area, but hope to improve this hugely in the near future. And seeing as I do have view room area problems THE biggest problem I have is that the main front window in my house is right smack dab in the middle of my best screen location (cant put up a "fixed" panel screen). It's just not fair 🙁 If this were a blank wall I'd have it surfaced to a "T" by now. Thanks for the gear compliment, it's not the "best of the best" but I did a lot of reading and learning before I bought. The system DVD's, TV's and surf's just GREAT! It's not a gamers dream though by any means, but it does make Age of Empires really cool!!!

zardoz
 
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