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  1. vinman

    Projection screen how big Is Big ?

    That's exactly where this fascination started with me. In the late 70's I worked at what is now the grand Elgin Theatre in Toronto.I took a job as an usher just because I was struck by the immensity and grandiosity of that old theatre which at that time had fallen in disrepair and was mostly...
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    Projection screen how big Is Big ?

    This is what I had in mind 10 years ago when I started my install .....they don't make them like they used to.......I think that would definitely be big enough.....
  3. vinman

    Projection screen how big Is Big ?

    Yes the G-90 is a CRT projector with a few thousand hours of use on new tubes. I just fire it up in advance and it works just fine without any fumbling. I usually watch satellite feeds on a sony 55" lcd , but when the snow piles 4 feet high and I haven't booked a flight to Florida , I use the...
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    Projection screen how big Is Big ?

    My Sony G-90 is projecting onto a 12 foot wide (4:3) screen . The room is 30 feet wide by 40 feet long , ceiling is 13 feet high. I can go much bigger in screen size and the G-90 will keep up. But where do I stop ? I can dedicate one entire wall to a fixed screen , I've experimented and it looks...
  5. vinman

    WANTED: Warner Home Video Westerns Collection Vol. 2

    Funny how Home Theater technology has surpassed television broadcasts of the Classics. Will I be around to see TCM , Fox and the Western movie channels broadcast in High(er) Definition so I can stop running around collecting my favorites on today's mediums (often from poor transfers) ? Yeah...
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    "The Robe" and "Demetrius and the Gladiators" are now a wow!

    I've been ready and waiting with High(er) Definition projection for 10 years and now that Blu-ray players and Blu-ray titles of my favorite movies are finally available I've just added another medium to the chain of processors in order to view my favorites. Looking back it seems quite...
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    Things I wish I would have done differently in my project

    Buy a house that would contain my Home Theater on the main floor of the house without having to segregate the whole thing to the basement or a dedicated theater room where the sitting arrangement often feels like being in a church staring at the screen as if it was an altar. Integrate my Home...
  8. vinman

    l'Homme de Rio (That man from Rio) on DVD?

    "That man from Rio " has played on TCM , if memory serves me right, in the last year or so.
  9. vinman

    "The Robe" and "Demetrius and the Gladiators" are now a wow!

    Wow what great news. I bought The Robe on VHS , then I bought the Laser copy , then I bought the DVD in 2002 and now since we have proof that this release is better I just ordered it. I just can't wait till next year for The Robe Special Edition on DVD and blu-ray just so I can have them all...
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