Projector?

[Ferritboy]

Can any one suggest a reasonabily priced over head projector??

thanks! (:

[Greg_D]

It depends on budget, Projectors go from £200-£50,000.
What is your budget?
What are your needs?
What is your imput?
HD or not?

May i suggest a quick internet trawl first.

Greg

[oola]

Greg_D said:

It depends on budget, Projectors go from £200-£50,000.
What is your budget?
What are your needs?
What is your imput?
HD or not?

May i suggest a quick internet trawl first.

Greg

Try £200 - £300,000

As above, requirements and budget are everything. They vary as wildly as cars ...

[hairyben]

oola said:

Greg_D said:

Projectors go from £200-£50,000.

Try £200 - £300,000

Have lexicon just brought one out?

[peterperkins]

I like Epson projectors and have had one in the living room for my main telly/films etc for 4 years or more.

I'm now on a TW700, needs a fairly dark room for best results.

http://www.projectorpoint.co.uk/projectors/Epson_E...

The bulb lasted about 2400 hours on a mix of high and low settings.

Bloody good! and can produce great pictures with decent 720p HD input. I would never have a normal telly, lcd or plasma again.

I drive it with a mixture of a netbook using VGA/HDMI and component from my old DVD player and freeview box.

Will be watching a film tonight with a bag of crisps/chocs and glass of wine at one side and the wife sitting knitting on the other! I just need some 3D glasses now and a copy of Avatar!!

Edited by peterperkins on Saturday 23 January 18:31

[OldSkoolRS]

Somewhere between the cheap and nasty and the millionaires only priced models there are numberous decent ones to choose from:

In no particular order: Panasonic AE4000, Epsom TW5800, Sanyo '700, Sony HWL15 and JVC HD550. I'm a fan of the JVC model and have the older HD350 which was recently appearing around the £2,200 area as end of line. You could do a lot worse than any of the above (whose complete model names I may have missed or forgotten, but a quick google should put you right).

I just watched a few films this weekend on my setup, which is modest, but setup to as near perfection as I can manage (with my budget calibration sensor and video processor to help). The image I get at home is significantly better than that which I've seen in most local fleepits and I'd even say it beats the Odeon Leicester Square in quality if not in absolute size. I have no exit signs and other H&S BS to worry about so can view in total darkness, thus getting a fantastic black level when required...I only watch broadcast films on TV these days as even a 60" TV wouldn't cut it for me now: near 10' wide in 'scope' all the way for me.

Edited by OldSkoolRS on Sunday 24th January 10:36

[Tyrant]

You could get an HD Optoma and electric screen and have change from £1000.

[oola]

hairyben said:

oola said:

Greg_D said:

Projectors go from £200-£50,000.

Try £200 - £300,000

Have lexicon just brought one out?

Nope, Runco SC-1
http://www.runco.com/sc-1.html