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| Mark70:
http://www.denguru.com/2004/11/13/supersize_your_tv_for_/index.html Anyone ever consider making a unit with this rig in it and a PC with tuner card. Pack it all in a nice piece of millwork, and you have a tv unit. Heat is going to be the big enemy here, and consequently noise from fans while trying to watch tv. Compelling idea. I'd try it if I could get my hands on some free lcds. |
| crashwg:
There's a website that goes by the name www.LumenLab.com that has all sorts information on building something like that. You have to pay for access to some of the info and forums but if you realy want to pursue BYOProjector it's well worth it. I signed up over a year ago but decided against building one due to the fact that even lighting from corner to corner is damn near impossible, it's a lot of work and I haven't even finnished the Mame cab that I've been working on for 3 years now and the price of bulbs for commercial projectors is not a large factor for me since the amout of time I would use it which would only be for movies and the rare occasion of a hour or two of gaming it would take 3-5 years to burn out some of the longer life bulbs on the market today. Oh and the size... You'd be my hero if you could build one smaller than an average microwave! P.S. Wrong Forum |
| Mark70:
I thought it was a bit of everything type of topic, so I put it here. I was including the projection hack, as well as the idea of combining it with a TV Tuner PC, or PVR, or PCVR, or Freevo PC, whatever you want to call it. Good links. You're right. It would be large. I'd expect it to be the size of a bar fridge once you put a pc in there too. It would also dictate your furniture layout. I imagine your best projection spot is from centered opposite the wall you're projecting on to; which means splitting the couch. Hmmmm.. putting it above the suspended ceiling and only the projector head coming down through the ceiling. hmmmm. I had been thinking of a floor unit. If you could make it thin enough to fit between the floor joists and hang down, you could hide the majority of the workings. Interesting. |
| edwardvci:
Yes the work fine I like thew one I built but it does put off some heat. If you look close at the projector you will see it is official Mame projector because of the Marble contact paper by the lens :laugh2: |
| Mark70:
what did you use for a lens assembly? it doesn't look like part of an overhead projector. |
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