Eyefinity Home Theatre

[Jeff007245]

I'm planning a Home Theater build... Is it worth it to go with a Triple Projector High Performance HTPC?

I want to build something like the holodeck similar to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSErBk3Vogg

Plan on using 3 Projectors for Gaming, and Center Projector for Movies.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Well, I don't have experience with eyefinity home theater, however, I've got a 3 monitor eyefinity setup in my home office and I've got a home theater in the basement with a 106 inch 1080p display.

I tend to prefer a desk with keyboard and mouse for my gaming, so it worked out better for me anyhow, though occasionally I'll game on the projector ...

If you want to go triple projector high performance HTPC, just be aware that you will probably need some kinda converters unless at least 1 of the projectors has "displayport." Even if you go Crossfire + Eyefinity, you need all your displays hooked up to a single card for crossfired eyefinity support.

I think an eyefinity projector setup would be amazing .... but it's an awful lot more dough for 3 x 1080p projectors vs 3 x cheap 1080p monitors .... so you'll want to give it some thought ...

 

[Sidekicknichola]

Take the follow FWIW -

I had a similar plan ... three projectors in my basement home theater room. I already had two of the three so figured my investment wouldn't be too much more... figured the best way to check it out was buy another HD20 at bestbuy, try it for a week or two, and if I didn't like it, return it....

My goal was to have an eyefinity gaming setup (like you've mentioned) and my own mini sports-book.... after trying it all for two or so weeks I ended up returning the 3rd projector.

This was the main reason:

I tend to prefer a desk with keyboard and mouse for my gaming, so it worked out better for me anyhow, though occasionally I'll game on the projector ...

Burnitdown and I are the same here... gaming on that big of a screen was a PITA for most games and honestly took down the fun factor. For the few times I would like to game on a big screen one 120" screen is enough.

My current setup has the 120" screen, 92" screen to the side (only really used for sports)... 3 couches to view the screens, and behind the center couch a desk that holds my PC (HTPC / Gaming rig) and monitors. I have an hdmi splitter on the output so I can play using eyefinity, one monitor, or on the projector... I enjoy this setup the most since I can play games and still send movies to the projector.... Its great because I can fire up some movie for my fiance while I play games at the same time.

 

[Exterous]

Have you tried gaming on a single large screen? I guess it would depend on the game but I'd agree that I don't think I'd like eyefinity gaming on that big of a screen. Non twitch games were better but I play a lot of FPS games and apparently I move my neck around a lot more when gaming on my *looks at other posters screensize* tiny 101" screen. I don't remember if it got sore or if I just didn't like it. Either way I was really dissapointed and didn't spend much time doing it.