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Purple Lemon:

--- Quote from: quarterback on November 11, 2006, 10:38:41 pm ---Yeah, but how far in the future?  According to that article, hundreds of companies should have rolled out their wireless USB products by now.

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Like all future technology, it's probably 'Real Soon Now'.  Bluetooth didn't get it right until version 2.0, so I would rather wait for until Wireless USB actually works than a product that only works some of the time.
kelemvor:
With a Home Theater I agree with soem above the the screen would be big enough that rotating a screen wouldn't be necessary.

I'd just get a PC with an S_Video out on it and plug that into your TV.  RUn the audio cables to your tuner and you're done.

As for the controls, a friend of mien rigged up a small CP that you'd hold on your lap.  It connected via a LAN cable to the iPac near the PC.  He also made a second one that plugs into the first one with another LAN cable so you could have 2 people sitting next to each other, each with their own CP on their lap, and playing head to head.


RandyT:

I'm just wondering when it was that "home theater" started applying to anything bigger than a 35" TV or an aspect ratio of other than 4:3.

I guess we can thank the marketing people at the electronics conglomerates for that one.


True "home theater" setups can display a vertical game virtually from the floor to the ceiling without turning anything. 

RandyT
Purple Lemon:

--- Quote from: RandyT on November 13, 2006, 05:57:23 pm ---True "home theater" setups can display a vertical game virtually from the floor to the ceiling without turning anything. 

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If you have a dedicated room for home theater with the high end seating, projector, AV equipment, etc, then chances are that you can afford the extra room to put any pinball / arcade machine you want.

I'm not in that category, unfortunately, which means I have to make do with moderate priced equipment that has 80-90% of the functionality of the high end gear.
NickG:
I live in a single 20ft.x20ft (approx) room yet i have one (so far) arcade cabs and a 600 dollar projector setup    and futon.  Yeah; no need to rotate the screen.  I laugh at people when they buy theses leetel girly-man lcds for 600 and try to call it a home theater-  until my bulbs run out, then they laugh at me back.  Then, all of a sudden having a small screen sounds like a good idea.  Then, your idea also sounds nice.......but, I'd just as soon prop one up on it's side with a pizzabox or something...people in your "category" will pobably be inclined to build their own stuff unless you make yours really impressive and unapproachable somehow; seeing is believing. :o
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