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how is the color on this thing? i'd imagine with an overhead projector bulb you won't get the true colors?
 
its pretty damn good actaully, its a bit on the yellowish side so I boosted the Color temp in powerstrip to compensate, its not as good as a Metal hallid bulb alot o guys use but those bulbs also cost about 150 for a bulb and ballist but i'll prolly end up getting one of them down the road after my stack of bulbs I got with the projector burn out

but those pics are not retouched so judge for yourself on color
 
How crisp does it look in real life? Is it nice and sharp or does it get a bit blurry once it gets to the wall?
 
yah I took a monitor which had a bad backlight striped off all the guts and laid it all out on some glass I had cut, tact it all down with some duct tape (had to keep the ghetto theme going and it was black duct tape so it doesn't look all that bad),

the LCD is a bit big for the OHP so the res is being droped thru powerstrip down to 800x480 (can do 800x600 but 90% of what I watch is 16:9 so it made making a screen easier if I didn't have to dick with a 4:3 interface)

Looks pretty good at my 10ft view distance there is a bit of screen door but not terrible and I had a Halo Tourney at my house last weekend and it was a big hit
 
Originally posted by: Xanis
looks pretty good. how much did that cost you and was it hard?
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not hard at all most tedius part was strippin the LCD since there are alot of fragil ribbon cables.

it was pretty cheap

I need to paint the screen yet which will get me a little better blacks and a litte more gain. and I'm going to enclose the whole thing in a MDF box to cut down on sound and light leakage
 
also I just noticed viewing the pics on another monitor those vertical lines aren't visable on the actual projection, must be as side effect of the camera
 
that's a nice picture for $100. where do you hide the projector, though? doesn't look too good (but who cares?)
 
its in my basement, so the room its self is only half finished (walls with old 70s style wood wall board and 2 concrete walls), and the floor is unfinished concrete with a couple area rugs thrown out.

so the ghettoness is not an issue
 
where did you pick up the LCD? i have looked for an LCD with a bad backlight on ebay, but everything i saw was way overpriced.
 
Originally posted by: Umberger
where did you pick up the LCD? i have looked for an LCD with a bad backlight on ebay, but everything i saw was way overpriced.
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got this one locally but just from checking for a friend earlier in a week there were 3 or 4 possible canidates it looks like about 50 bucks is what you would need to pay for one after shipping, which isn't really all that bad, the reason alot of these go for that much is the backlight sometimes isn't that hard of a fix so alot of people get these trying to repair them
 
source for instructions? That looks like a really cool project. I've already got a big screen television, but we were considering turning one of our garages into a family room. Something like that would be perfect.
 
that site that I linked to is prolly the best for info on the project, there are alot of different methods some are as easy as what I did, some involve alot more complex lens and mirror systems.

another good source is DIYAudio.com

Lumenlabs is also good from what I here but they make you pay 15 bucks to get in and I never figured it was worth it since the other two sites have most of the same info
 
and you can use 17in if you build your own enclosure, but thats quite involved, and also required use of a more expensive 500mm FL lens which runs about 140 compared to one you can salavge off a OHP for under 30 bucks for a 15in
 
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