Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo Odyssey Stratos - Part 3 "The End"

My Brother in law's projector is 1080i compatible, at least. These days, that is nothing special. When he got it, the projectors was listing for around 10K (His company bought the thing for business use, and he used it for presentations...the portability meant that he could unhook it quickly an easily for job-related issues. long story short - two years after the company bought it, they basically forgot that they bought it, and - wammo, free projector.)

Anyway, I looked into some projectors, and really, you won't be saving any money. If you factor in the screen that you'll need to buy, and factor in the cost of the actual projector, which is still pretty high these days (circa 2-3K for a good one) and then consider that a 1080p projector will likely be newer and thus, more exepensive, there's mroe fuel for the "cost-fire." Then, you add picture quality concerns because of the light issues and it all begins to get kind of expensive.

All of that said - I hope to one day get a projector, because it certainly is pretty d@mned cool seeing DVDs played at 90 inches. You really feel like you have a home THEATER!

But, if costs weren't an issue, we wouldn't have these boards, we'd all be out buying every hot toy we could think of.

Sorry for the long response that didn't answer your question.

Wow, I hadn't thought of a FP. What a nice solution. spiff, in looking at the cabling, I'm hoping you took a look at someone like Blue Jeans Cables rather than Monster Price.

I emailed Blue Jeans and am awaiting their reply.

FP would be sweet but it would indeed be rather pricey. When I consider that in this particular place the biggest screen I could hope for would be about 80", I may honestly be better off with something like this...

Can you say "I like it!"

This may work really well. My major concern was with my gear up front, I'd need a tv that could sit on a stand. Most of the set's I'd seen that I liked, couldn't do that. This would actually work very well with my Idea B.

dang it...it looks like this model may only be 1280x720. 1920x1080 will be the new standard soon, I'm not buying a tv that'll be obsolete so soon! Grrr...

I love Bllue Jeans stuff. Their owner, Ken (?) spent 1/2 hour on the phone with me getting me set up. The quality of their stuff is excellent.

Actually, a good FP can be had for the same $$ as a good TV. Additionally, you would save some serious jack not having to buy a TV stand. I've seen some FPs work and they can be pretty impressive. The difference in the video will be virtually unnoticeable. You might also be surprised at the $$ and quality of an EDTV palsma.

Spiffnme, this is pure heresay, but I was under the impression that the Samsung DLP sets were upgradable in the sense you could have the DLP chip replaced with newer versions for cost/labor. Like I said, this is pure 'water cooler' talk from work and I have nothing to substantiate it, but might be worth checking out.

jr

A 1080p projector is available, and more are on the way.

But unless you want to spend a minimum of $30,000, you won't have one in your den for some time. There is a couple digital PJ's, then there is currently some double stack CRT's capable of 1080p.

But what are you going to feed it? Properly de-interlaced DVHS would be 1080p I suppose, but there won't be any need for 1080p for a couple more years, and I bet there will be very few products available even then.

Also, hopefully Samsung, or someone else will deliver a 1080p rear projection set by the end of the year. But it won;t be cheap either.

My concern is that HD-DVD in all likelyhood will be 1920x1080. If I'm going to spend upwards of $4-5K on a TV, it had better darn well be good for a long time. I'm not going to be buying another one anytime soon.

The other nice thing about FP's is not having a hard screen acting as a baffle or reflective surface when you just want to listen to music.

Without a TV between the L/R channel, the soundstage sounds nicer...and deeper.

I understand your concern about not having a tv for HD-DVD for whenever it comes out. Hopefully it will be 1080p, but you won't find anything capable of 1080p for $4-5k anytime soon I am afraid. I am in the same boat. I want a new TV, but at the same time, it is hard justifying spending so much money on something when you will want something bigger and better in 3 or 4 years. I will probaly get the 34XBR960 whenever it comes out. Then in a couple years, I will move it to the be/1.om and pick up either a 1080p FP or rear projection set.