Home Theater Project

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Looks sweet tfinch2

I haven't done it myself yet, but I've read that if you add a black boarder around your image, you'll perceive it as having better contrast and the image will look better overall. When I get my screen set up, I plan to make a boarder for 16:9 and then inserts that I can add when I'm watching a 2.35:1 movie or 4:3 material and have the boarders line up with the edges of the image.

As for real speakers vs logitechs....

It's not like there's anything magic that takes place when you move to HT speakers vs. computers speakers. It's still an amp getting a signal and amplifying it to some paper (or some other material) cones that vibrate . I'd have to say the things I appreciate the most are

1. Better response over a fuller frequency range (I get about 15Hz to 20kHz +/- 5dB) meaning I get a lot more low end (I think most computer subs... even "THX" subs only go down to about 35Hz) and sets like logitech that don't have tweeters don't do a great job on high stuff
2. Better clarity and richness of sound, especially at higher volumes
3. Well... higher volumes with a surface are of drivers of over 300 square inches, it's a lot easier to get more air moving in a room compared to your average set of computer speakers
4. More options - you get to pick how much you want to spend on each component and decide what features are important to you - along with this is connectivity (related to receiver choice) allowing you to hook up a ton of stuff to the same set of equipment without a bunch of "ghetto rigging" you'd have to do with a set of computer speakers
5. Upgradability - when you want to replace something, you can just replace that one component and keep the rest - when I thought my Dayton 10" from parts express wasn't cutting it, I sold it to a friend for 75% of what I got it for and upgraded to something a lot better

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
Dude, you can MAKE your own curtains!!! My screen is made from blackout cloth!!!!! The same reason it's great for curtains makes it perfect for screen material; it reflects back more than 95% of the light that hits it.

Screen made of blackout cloth. Screen is 78 x 44 (16x9)

Is that your setup? Niiice.

 

[Fritzo]

For around $300, we got a diamond layered remote controlled 16x9 projection screen. That might have been a cleaner, cooler solution.

 

[Doggiedog]

Sweet!

Congrats. Once you go FPJ you'll never go back. The projector is one of the very few electronics purchases my wife raves about. It has a 100% wife approval rating.

Here's how much my set up cost:

Infocus 4805 $1250
Onkyo 601 receiver $250
Cerwin Vega 5.1 speakers $100
Ceiling mount $50
Speaker wall mounts $50
Cables $100
1/2 gallon of paint $10
Paint brush and rollers $10

Total $1,820

Zenith DB318 DVD player $179 if you want to count that.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Doggiedog
Sweet!

Congrats. Once you go FPJ you'll never go back. The projector is one of the very few electronics purchases my wife raves about. It has a 100% wife approval rating.

Here's how much my set up cost:

Infocus 4805 $1250
Onkyo 601 receiver $250
Cerwin Vega 5.1 speakers $100
Ceiling mount $50
Speaker wall mounts $50
Cables $100
1/2 gallon of paint $10
Paint brush and rollers $10

Total $1,820

Zenith DB318 DVD player $179 if you want to count that.

how do you like your 318? that's my next planned hardware upgrade

 

[Doggiedog]

I'm on the fence on it.

I bought after much research on AVS forum.

First thing I don't like about it is it has no option to see the time remaining on the DVD.
I use it mainly to upscale component but I get wavy distortion once in a while in the picture no matter what resolution. I don't know if its the projector or the DVD player. I'm also not sure if its my electrical system since I also get horrible feedback on my subwoofer as well.

3 of my friends have bought the 318 and seem pretty happy with it. I was actually pretty impressed with their CS. I was going to return the unit because of the distortion. I called them up about it and they sent me a prepaid fedex slip to return the product with. I ended up not doing it because I was afraid they'd flash my bios to the new one which doesn't support progressive scan out from component.