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As a general point, those "full on / full off contrast ratios" should be completely ignored. They tell you literally nothing about how good an image will be or how good the black's will be. A full on / full off CR just measures the brightness off an all black screen compared to the brightness...

The burn-in potential is a little annoying. I'm super careful and I refuse to subscribe to streaming services like Vudu who insist on sticking their stupid logo on-screen the whole time on their original content. For news channels like CNN, which also apparently haven't heard of Oled TV's, I...

Is there anywhere that sells dci standard / digital theater quality movie content yet? I know some people think that having 4k Blu Rays and 4k Netflix means we have digital theater quality at home but we don't... 2k and 4k movies at the theater stream off local media servers at bitrate of...

I probably wouldn't bother with an anamorphic lens if I still used a JVC projector as most of their home theater models produce super dark awesome blacks. They make it easy to mask excess light spillage on the surrounding walls. Plus, they have good lens memory. I developed a taste for high end...

I don't get why anyone would need 4-way masking. If you go constant height, you'd only need / want to mask the sides. If you go constant width, you'd only want to mask the top and bottom. Either way, I agree that motorized variable masking is way too much hassle and cost for too little reward...

I'm not saying anything about what other people should get other than what is best for their viewing needs. It's a personal choice. I don't care what you put in your house. There are various reasons to use screens wider than 2.40:1 (like advertising / edge blending walls and super wide res PC...

HDR is certainly one of the limitations with projectors and I don't believe that will ever change. They can make projectors with good blacks and super bright ones, just not together. There's also the needing a dedicated blacked-out room thing. I used to be in the ALR screen business. With the...

It's a golden rule that you never lose screen area with a constant height set-up because you never change the screen height. You'd keep the 16:9 screen at a 120" (8.7' wide). The anamorphic lens would then widen it to around 150" diagonal for widescreen movies (around 11.5' wide). I'm not sure...

That's why I used it as an example. 1.85:1 and 2.40:1 both should go wider than a 1.78:1 (16:9) screen instead of shrink in a constant height set-up. If you look at 1.85:1 movies on a 16:9 screen, you'll notice small borders at the top and bottom. It's not enough to bother most people but if...

Someone I know has an NX5. They are excellent, especially for a projector in that price range. It won't scratch this particular itch though. Now that I've seen 100" + flat screens, I'm going to wait a while before my next upgrade. I have a high-end 1080p Barco projector that will continue to...

You don't go smaller for 16:9 content on a 2.35:1 constant height set-up. You make it with the 16:9 screen size you want and have it go wider when you watch movies. My 16:9 screen area is 120" diagonal (the same as it was on the 16:9 screen I used to use in my living room). It widens to 150"...

That's true. I can't change LG's product catalog with the power of my mind. My disappointment won't change anything, except my interest in upgrading. Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-LG. I have a 77" LG Oled in my living room and two 65" Oleds elsewhere in my house. I love my Oled displays...

That has been true since 1.33x anamorphic lenses and lens memory projectors first started being used. But... all genuinely high quality home theater kit is expensive (when new). Manufacturers would have us believe that display tech is getting continuously better and cheaper. My experience has...

I think rollable TV's are only a luxury niche product if they are priced that way. The vast majority of people don't care about better processors or understand what they are. A TV that folds away neatly when not in use is my wife's dream come true. Flat screen TVs only overtook CRT because they...

I was kinda reaching the same conclusion. I found some anamorphic lenses with a motorized variable stretch to deal with non-standard aspect ratios. That doesn't solve the issue of projectors only offering a vertical stretch for 1.33x and 1.25x lenses though. If using the zoom / lens memory...

Most decent or semi-decent projectors have an anamorphic stretch mode built in these days so external processors haven't been needed for some time. The projector vertically stretches the image to make it fill the screen (eliminating black bars). The anamorphic lens then stretches it horizontally...

What do you guys think about using anamorphic lenses with home theater projectors these days? I.e. Have current trends and tech made them obsolete or are they still an essential component of an enthusiast quality home theater? I love projectors and I hate black bars on any content but when...

I think that's a huge mistake on their part. It completely misses the key value of the tech imo. 65" is far too small for it to matter or for anyone to pay a premium for. They should be aiming for an affordable ($5000 or less) rollable TV that is no smaller than 100". Then it would bridge the...

I want to know where all the LG rollable OLED TV's are.... They demonstrated some awesome-looking floor-rising rollable Oleds. It's obviously something that would have broad appeal if prices were affordable, so where are they??? Rollable large-screen TVs solve a bunch of issues with large...

That's what manufacturers rely on to make people continually "upgrade" their display hardware. I think it's great. The more that average Joes go nuts buying extra Ks, the more awesome bargains there are for me on uber high end used 4k and 1080p kit.

I can see some benefit in shooting in 8k but 8k TVs are pointless or even a negative. It's yet another format released with no content support and even greater scaling artifacts to deal with. We only just started getting 4k content... Now even that has to be upscaled... Not in my living room...

1.85:1 is a theater standard. 2k digital theater projectors are 2160 x 1080 instead of 1920 x 1080, like tv's and home theater projectors. Because 1.85:1 is the standard for 2k and 4k, virtually no movies are made in 1.78:1. Some are cropped to 1.78 for their blu ray release. The difference is...