Front Projection Screen advice?

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Architectural Digest March 1988
Alfred and Deann Baldwin Home
for further details contact:
Wylie Overstreet, Architectural Digest


This 5 million dollar custom built home features
Sony 1020Q projector (thats 15,000 lumen)
(your LCD cant even push 1500!)

In what universe? I installed several 1020's back in the day (that would be
the early 90's), in the museum where I'm the AV manager. It's a sub-500
lumen projector that needs a dark room and a high-gain screen.

Meanwhile, we're now commonly using 3000-lumen LCDs in the same sorts or
installations; they cost half as much, weigh a tenth as much, require no
convergence, and can be used with normal room lighting.

Mikey, I think maybe you've been napping for a few years?

Now, I won't argue that CRT projectors don't achieve much higher contrast
ratios than LCDs, DLPs, etc. It's just that there aren't any available
anymore that can compete with the current crop of HT projectors on a
bang-for-the-buck basis. And does anyone even make a 1020p CRT projector?

RichC

RichC

wrote:

your LCD projectors will go the same way as your
rear projection TV's. Picture quality from a mirror
sucks.

Things improve. Well, most things. Your brain function sure hasn't.

--
Dave
www.davebbq.com

wrote:

Architectural Digest March 1988
Alfred and Deann Baldwin Home
for further details contact:
Wylie Overstreet, Architectural Digest


1988?

This 5 million dollar custom built home features

Yawn. This proves nothing. And you still haven't proven that it has anything
to do with you.
--
Dave
www.davebbq.com

Neck & Red wrote:
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And listen to someone other than this twit if you want "real" advice.
the Stewart brothers are my friends,
I have installed AV for 34 years,
My installations have appeared in Architectural Digest,
and Better Homes and Gardens Magazines,
I am currently working on three 5 million dollar +
custom homes,
This is hardly the resume of a "twit",
Just because you love these half assed LCD projectors
with pathetic brightness and picture quality does not
exclude your ability to learn something from a professional
with 500 times your experience.
You are jealous of my ability and try to compensate by
insulting me. You have an inferiority complex.
Three gun projectors rule, and professionals know this well!
so cover your windows, sit in the dark, and enjoy your
LCD while it still (brief period) works (before it breaks).
or before the projector bulb burns out, or before the plastic
mirrors start to warp and crack...
Later you will learn the lesson but never admit the mistakes.


You install $5million home theaters but can't afford better than a free
Yahoo internet account?

He's posting from a Southern California Comcast account via Google Groups.
I'd bet the free Yahoo account is for spam control.

The guy blows his own horn quite loudly and has some warped [and
incorrect] beliefs about audio/video in general, but judging on his
internet connection is rather petty. Especially when you're wrong.

wrote:
And listen to someone other than this twit if you want "real" advice.


the Stewart brothers are my friends,
I have installed AV for 34 years,
My installations have appeared in Architectural Digest,
and Better Homes and Gardens Magazines,
I am currently working on three 5 million dollar +
custom homes,
This is hardly the resume of a "twit",
Just because you love these half assed LCD projectors
with pathetic brightness and picture quality does not
exclude your ability to learn something from a professional
with 500 times your experience.
You are jealous of my ability and try to compensate by
insulting me. You have an inferiority complex.
Three gun projectors rule, and professionals know this well!
so cover your windows, sit in the dark, and enjoy your
LCD while it still (brief period) works (before it breaks).
or before the projector bulb burns out, or before the plastic
mirrors start to warp and crack...
Later you will learn the lesson but never admit the mistakes.




Mykey can be remarkably OFF KEY most of the time. However, when he
recommends Stewart, he is 100% on key nad is sounding magnificent.

I won't go into his projector choice, but for screens he is correct.

The issue for the OP is that he cannot afford a Stewart and must drop
down to something that is under $200

wrote:
Architectural Digest March 1988
Alfred and Deann Baldwin Home
for further details contact:
Wylie Overstreet, Architectural Digest


This 5 million dollar custom built home features
Sony 1020Q projector (thats 15,000 lumen)
(your LCD cant even push 1500!)
custom made eel skin table with internal motorized
projector lift mechanism, 9 foot diagonal Stewart
Film screen, $40,000 amplifier rack, custom built
all room remote control system and audio video
distribution, and of course the Sonance One speaker
which was the FIRST architectural in wall speaker.
since then this type of installation and remote system
has been copied by hundreds of installation contractors.
but WHO was there building the ORIGINAL?
Now give credit where credit is due.
These LCD salesmen can't even DREAM of doing the
installations that i do, and can't even DREAM of working
in the houses (castles) that I have designed systems for.


1988!!!!!

A current Sony projector that will do 10,000 lumens - they don't have a
current projector brighter than 10,000 costs about $98K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Robert Gammon wrote:

Mykey can be remarkably OFF KEY most of the time. However, when he
recommends Stewart, he is 100% on key nad is sounding magnificent.

I love my Firehawk :-)

--
Dave
www.davebbq.com

Dave Bugg wrote:
Robert Gammon wrote:

Mykey can be remarkably OFF KEY most of the time. However, when he
recommends Stewart, he is 100% on key nad is sounding magnificent.

I love my Firehawk :-)

--
Dave
www.davebbq.com

Well.. I'm just getting into the projector arena.. but by all
accounts.. it seems that everyone loves the Mitsubishi HD1000U (street
around $900 shipped).. for that price its a bargain, 720p, 1500 lumens
(maximum output).. everyone says its plenty bright, even with ambient
lighting, which I will have.

I've decided to go with the High Contrast Grey Screen variety.. either
something like a Dalite ModelB or maybe a draper, should be well within
the budget

markm75 wrote:
Dave Bugg wrote:
Robert Gammon wrote:

Mykey can be remarkably OFF KEY most of the time. However, when he
recommends Stewart, he is 100% on key nad is sounding magnificent.

I love my Firehawk :-)

--
Dave
www.davebbq.com

Well.. I'm just getting into the projector arena.. but by all
accounts.. it seems that everyone loves the Mitsubishi HD1000U (street
around $900 shipped).. for that price its a bargain, 720p, 1500 lumens
(maximum output).. everyone says its plenty bright, even with ambient
lighting, which I will have.

I've decided to go with the High Contrast Grey Screen variety.. either
something like a Dalite ModelB or maybe a draper, should be well
within the budget

It sounds like you've got things well in hand.

--
Dave
www.davebbq.com

"Robert Gammon" wrote in message
news
wrote:
And listen to someone other than this twit if you want "real" advice.


the Stewart brothers are my friends,
I have installed AV for 34 years,
My installations have appeared in Architectural Digest,
and Better Homes and Gardens Magazines,
I am currently working on three 5 million dollar +
custom homes,
This is hardly the resume of a "twit",
Just because you love these half assed LCD projectors
with pathetic brightness and picture quality does not
exclude your ability to learn something from a professional
with 500 times your experience.
You are jealous of my ability and try to compensate by
insulting me. You have an inferiority complex.
Three gun projectors rule, and professionals know this well!
so cover your windows, sit in the dark, and enjoy your
LCD while it still (brief period) works (before it breaks).
or before the projector bulb burns out, or before the plastic
mirrors start to warp and crack...
Later you will learn the lesson but never admit the mistakes.




Mykey can be remarkably OFF KEY most of the time. However, when he
recommends Stewart, he is 100% on key nad is sounding magnificent.

I won't go into his projector choice, but for screens he is correct.


Proving the statement that even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes...

The issue for the OP is that he cannot afford a Stewart and must drop down
to something that is under $200