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I'm looking for a theatre display again.....
drventure:
--- Quote from: nickbuol on July 12, 2012, 03:47:26 pm ---EDIT: Long post deleted because I couldn't clearly communicate that a large projection setup can be awesome without having to spend a ton. It came across just wrong.
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+1 on that. I found a motorized tab tensioned screen off CL for 250$ (a fixed screen is WAY cheaper, but you have to be able to dedicate some wall space, and I didn't want to, though, now, that's probably the way I'd go if I do it again), and a Panasonic Ae-900U project off ebay for 300$.
I've read that buying a can of screengoo and a good sponge roller and some MDF gets you very good screen for a fraction of that price.
I can also see the benefits of a set it down, run a cable, and you're done big LCD or plasma. A lot of the choice comes down to personal preference and how/what you typically watch.
saint:
--- Quote from: nickbuol on July 12, 2012, 03:47:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: saint on July 12, 2012, 07:04:31 am ---If you're not buying your cables from monoprice.com, you're paying too much as a rule (though that ebay deal was a score).
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+1,000,000
EDIT: Long post deleted because I couldn't clearly communicate that a large projection setup can be awesome without having to spend a ton. It came across just wrong.
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Gah, I thought it was well written and I wish you'd left it :)
Gray_Area:
--- Quote from: nickbuol on July 12, 2012, 04:49:24 pm ---A quick google search of hotabiz.com review doesn't make me want to give them any money.
Plus $315 (let alone $287) for a 55-inch tv is bogus. That TV should be around the $1000-$1500 price range.
Either they are scamming to steal your money, or they are scamming to get you to pay $1000 shipping. Either way, it is a scam or shady at best, and that isn't very promising.
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I did a search but nothing, not even 'review', shows anything significant. Certainly looks scammy. But you never know. Asian markets have cheap stuff. Would $200 shipping be worth it if the item costs retail $800, and you're getting it for $400?
Ond:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 12, 2012, 05:00:45 pm ---
Well, most of those are usually nonissues at a decent theater. But the easiest counterpoint is that a 100" screen with a consumer surround sound system is also absolutely nothing like a good movie theater. At all. That's an important part of the comparison. It's not just the environment. It's also 20' of screen size and about 7500 watts of sound system.
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No. Sorry, but this is not necessarily so. Pompous mode on: [Come over to my place and I'll radically adjust your thinking on this. Sure a cheap all in one sound system is not going to reproduce big commercial theatre sound, but it is possible to not only match the experience but it exceed it with high fidelity consumer systems. It's also a matter of space, in a large or even medium theatre 7500 watts is appropriate, in a home theatre the same quality can be achieved with wattage appropriate to that space. A well matched and configured system with powerful subs can reproduce the wide dynamic range and quality of a commercial theatre.] Pompous mode off. :P
Ond:
--- Quote from: drventure on July 12, 2012, 05:13:28 pm ---I've read that buying a can of screengoo and a good sponge roller and some MDF gets you very good screen for a fraction of that price.
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Out where I am screengoo worked out more expensive than the cost of a fixed 110" screen, so I went with the screen.
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