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Originally posted by: bad_karma24
Sounds like a nice set-up. I assume you've gone and calibrated the gray-scale, tightened the guns, etc. It reminds me of Bjoern's.
The one thing I don't like about HD on HBO and Showtime is that more often or not they're broadcast in 1.85:1 regardless of their OAR. Very annoying.
It's a DLP, which is digital. No guns to tighten
Focus is tack-sharp and doesn't require all the fiddling CRTs do. I did grayscale and complete color calibration using a colorimeter and test patterns (OpticONE and Avia PRO). The Sharp 12K has a highly configurable user menu that allows you to adjust not only red, green, and blue bias/gain, but also adjust the color decoder so you can plot red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, and magenta on a CIE chart with near-perfect accuracy. I calibrated the projector to mimic the characteristics of SMPTE-C phosphors, which are the phosphors used in professional monitors during mastering. I'm about as close to seeing what the telecine operator sees when he creates a master from original film stock as anyone can be.Bjoern has an incredible setup though. My "theater" is really just an extra 14' x 11' bedroom in my apartment that I dedicated to my movie watching activities. I'll probably be buying a house in the next few years, and when that happens I'll design and build a true home theater. Should be fun.
HBO does tend to crop scope films to 1.78:1 (16:9), which sucks. Sometimes they open up the mattes on Super 35 stuff like they did with Harry Potter, which also sucks. Showtime is almost always OAR.