Man, now that the audio gear acquisition side of my home theater is coming to a good resting point, I'm going to have to start looking at projectors. I mean, I won't actually buy anything until I can move it all down into the basement, which will be a while, but it's something to look forward to and plan for. I wonder how big of a screen I'll be able to manage down there. The bad news is the basement is short. I doubt it will even be 7' high with the suspended ceiling. Otherwise, there should be plenty of space to work with. The support beam situation will be something to work around, too, but it shouldn't be too bad. But yeah, hearing people talk about projectors gets me revved up since that's going to be the final piece that makes my system come together.
if you asked me last year if I would ever own a projector, I would have probably said no. Never been so wrong.. The Optoma hd65 is a good starter package. It was at 999$CDN at Costco and came with a screen. I just painted the wall in white and gone for the biggest image possible.
Mine is not in the basement, it's on the first floor and I have really large triple windows. The projector lamp is so bright we can even watch it with lights fully opened in the kitchen.
few pictures of a hd65 picture:
