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I what just wondering if you guys and gals here at the OT had a Home Theather, Big Screen or Projector with Sound System Setup?.

I am planning to get one to view my star wars films on. I want a 16x9 150" wall screen and Projector to add to my 5.1 Sound System.

so far I see that most "Good" projectors are Very Pricey. almost like a used car. I saw one for 1599.99.

I would love to see some pics of your set up for more ideas.


Thanks.
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It's all a question of how much you're willing to pay and looking for bargains. My current setup has a 27" screen, but I have full 5.1 Dolby Digital w/100W per channel. Eventually I'll upgrade and go for a projector, but not until my student loans are paid off and I have a house of my own (renting really sucks).

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I have a 5.1 dolby sound system and standard size bigscreen TV.
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36" Toshiba Widescreen, with Dolby 5.1. I've still got that big Laserdisc player thing connected to it as well as the DVD player.
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53" Hitachi widscreen HD-capable (but don't have a set-top box yet), Panasonic RV56 DVD player, Dolby Digital 5.1 reciever, Bose 5.1 sound system. I'll try and get some pics up later tonight.

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I have a pretty sweet setup for the most part. Everything has its cons. Below is the living room setup, which is what I mainly use when I'm not in my room using my mono 9" RCA.

32" Loewe Arcada 4:3 Digital TV
Pros- Great Picture, sound, anamorphic capability, 4:3 aspect ratio as the majority of what I watch is TV. I don't mind black bars. great remote. easy calibration requiring little out of the box ajustment, great remote.
cons- does not accept progressive feed in favor of its own built in one. slight lumenence flaring. Not sure if HD or SD.

JVC DVD player
pro- progressive scan, great vcd playback, simple to use, MP3,DVD-Audio capability, analogue DTS out allowing DTS without a reciever with 5.1 out(its greatest strength)
cons- Proscan dosn't work with TV, remote wont work through glass panels, VCD locks off after excesive forwarding, only plays 1st 100 mp3s per folder. No DVD-As that I would buy.

JVC 9800 SVCR
pros- fantastic picture quality. great recording quality. great remote. great faulty tape handling. all around one of the best VCRs around.
cons- cheapest loading machinism ever. after multiple fixes, the idiots still haven't found the problem. rewond mysteriously last night, damaging blank inside.(this all pertains to rewinding so I just rewind in one of the other 5 VCRs we have).

old 80's JVC stereo reciever. Used primerily for dad's Fisher LP player, I've since utilized it for the center channel of our sound system.
pros- allows my 3.0 setup to exist
cons- only allows for a 3.0 set up. second reciever required for background. no pro-logic.

I'm looking to upgrade to a surround setup when I can afford it. any suggestions?


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Originally posted by: JangoxFett
I what just wondering if you guys and gals here at the OT had a Home Theather, Big Screen or Projector with Sound System Setup?.

I am planning to get one to view my star wars films on. I want a 16x9 150" wall screen and Projector to add to my 5.1 Sound System.

so far I see that most "Good" projectors are Very Pricey. almost like a used car. I saw one for 1599.99.

I would love to see some pics of your set up for more ideas.


Thanks.


As a home theater enthusiast, I suggest you stay out of the hobby. It quickly becomes an obsession and will drain your wallet faster than any woman ever could

It all started back in junior high school when I dug an old stereo receiver and a pair of speakers out of my mom's attic. One of the tweeters didn't work, but I didn't even care back then. I used some summer job money to pick up a Technics CD player and became hooked on home audio.

The next year I picked up a cheap Magnavox stereo receiver (50W per channel I think), a Technics 5-disc carousel changer (I precariously perched the first one on top of a cardboard box and it fell victim to my jumping cat), and my mom bought me a pair of Bose Interaudio 4000 XL speakers for Christmas (now sitting inside my front door and heading toward the dumpster). I also bought a 19" Sony Trinitron around the same time since I had a bad gaming addiction.

Right before I graduated high school, I upgraded to an Onkyo Dolby Pro Logic receiver, but never could afford the speakers to complete the setup because I was heading into college and needed beer money. That receiver was a tank and, along with my trusty Trinitron, survived 4 years at Penn State (okay, 5 years ) and was just recently sold on ebay. 12 years altogether--a pretty good run, and 12 times longer than I could go now without upgrading.

After I graduated and moved to Jersey, I picked up another Onkyo--a 797 THX Select 6.1 receiver--and paired it with a Polk speaker setup. Picked up a 32" Sony Wega and was in heaven. The old Trinitron went to my nephew's bedroom and is still there. This, I thought, was the ultimate. It couldn't get any better. My neighbors hated me and I was in home theater nirvana.

Then I stumbled across the AVS Forum where I learned about front projection. This is where it gets really nasty.

I'm on my fifth digital projector in two years.

Sold the Onkyo 797 due to some glitches (which, it turns out, weren't glitches at all, just bad internet press and misinformed customers) and upgraded to a Rotel RSP-1066 preamp and RMB-1075/RB-1050 amps for a 7.1 setup. It sounded great, but now the Polks were the weak link in my system. They simply couldn't resolve the detailed sound of the Rotel gear.

In comes a complete M&K S-150 THX Ultra speaker system. The sub is larger than most people's TVs. This setup completely blows away the Polks. I keep the front Polk towers and subwoofer and hook them up to the college tank Onkyo (remember him?) in the office with the 32" Sony Wega. This is my gaming rig. Streets of Rage never looked or sounded so good. The rest of the Polks (two center channels, two bookshelf speakers, and two dipole surrounds) sit in my closet until I decide to put them up for sale. I originally wanted to use them for a 5.1 gaming rig, but space was too tight. Maybe when I buy a house.

After a few months, I decided the feature set of the 1066 was too limited, so I upgraded to an Anthem AVM 20. Unbelievable piece of equipment. Built like a tank and sounded amazing. I kept the Rotel amps because they were more than enough power for my small theater.

Just last week, I sold my AVM 20 and bought a Harman Kardon DPR 2005 receiver. Rather than traditional analog amplification, it uses a digital amplifier. This means anything sent to the receiver digitally (Dolby Digital, DTS, a CD player connected via optical or digital coaxial) stays digital until it's sent to the speakers. Let me tell you, these new digital amps are going to bring audiophile-quality sound to the masses.

In terms of price and feature set, this is a downgrade from the AVM 20, but in terms of sound quality, it's definitely an upgrade. This thing sounds better than the AVM 20/Rotel amps ever did, and is 1/3 the price. There is ZERO background noise and the dynamic range is incredible. The 2005 is a higher-end digital amp (about $1100 street), but that's because the power output is insane for a receiver (200W x 7 channels at 4 ohms). There are much less expensive models from companies like Panasonic and Kenwood that sound just as good but don't have the power to drive large, hungry speakers. If any of you are in the market for a receiver, I highly recommend trying one with a digital amp (SA-XR50 or SA-XR70 from Panasonic, some from Kenwood and Sony also). There are guys out there who are dumping thousands of dollars in gear and hooking up their $10K+ speakers to a $300 Panasonic digital amp because it sounds that good.

The M&K's are also on their way out. Upgrading to James Loudspeakers. This upgrade is bordering on sick, but I'm an American, and excess is a way of life for me.

Oh, my current projector is a Sharp XV-Z12000 DLP projected onto a 92" screen. I calibrated it with a colorimeter and special PC software. Looks like a giant reference monitor.

Hi. My name is Jay, and I'm a home theater addict.
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What I wouldn't do for that kind of money... I watch most stuff on my computer's 17" monitor and $20 speakers or on my 13" monitor with a built-in mono speaker... lol... I've only really recently thought there was anything bad about my archives being mostly first-generation EP tapes from VHS... ^^;;;

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Best ive got is my laptop with a 15.4 inch widescreen

A dedicated Home Theater room is the dream.
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I've got a 27" Sharp flat screen TV (not flat panel or plasma, mind you). Phillips 5 disc changer and a Sony surround receiver with Dolby something or other. I live in an apartment and cannot properly mount the speakers so the surround sound kinda goes by the wayside. When my wife and I get a place that we own, we're having her father install the surround sound properly (he's an electrician and knows how to set them up through walls and under carpets and all that jazz).
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If you want a 150" screen that projector would have to be like 30 feet back from the wall.

Even if you can get it back that far the screen door effect would kill the whole picture. Your better off going for a 90" or smaller screen.

You can pick up the Infocus 4805 that looks really good. I had one before I upgraded to the 7200 (I had it for exactly three days, I'm a sucker for a good deal). I have that hitting a 92" screen and it looks great.

Projectors all come down to the room they are in. If you can put it in a room that is all painted black, with black carpet and no light in it other than the projector the 4805 will look just as good the 7200 I have in my set up. I would bet money on it. I have a ton of light sources in the room I have the projector in so most of the time I use my Toshiba TV. It's more than enough for me.

I would like to upgrade to the 65" model though. But yeah just take Jay's advice and don't get into home theatre. You always want something more. ALWAYS!

My Equipment
57” 16:9 HD Toshiba Projection TV (57HX81) -or- Infocus 7200 (92" screen)
Pioneer VSX-D810S (Receiver)
Pioneer DV-F727 (DVD Player)
M&K V-1250 THX Subwoofer
Infinity 12” Subwoofer (BU-120)
M&K 550 THX Surround (X2)
M&K LCR-750 THX Front (X2)
M&K 750-THX Center (X2 - one in front and one in rear)
Monster Clean Power Center HTS2500 MKII

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Thanks for all the Suggestions! I got some thinking to do.
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i'll be sure to take some pics of my theater....
you can tell how lazy i am to list it all...
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Well ive got a 256inch fuck off plasma projection flat screen LCD baby in my front room.
Also have a Dvd super high definition superior sound h2O blue chip multi channel FX007 big boys nuts player
With a 2100 gigawatts copper coiled HD32638 ball busting GZ27 Amplifier
Speakers 5600watts multi channel 8 speaker 25w set up with ding dong bassbooster SD5628162


Yeah baby, mine rocks!

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lol

sounds grand
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Indeed. You speak salesman like a pro, HotRod.

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i would buy it...
"Never. I'll never turn to the darkside. You've failed your highness. I am a jedi, like my father before me."
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I never knew that Jay lived in my state! It dinitely seems like he is an addict.