HTF Contest: Win an Epson HC 8700 1080P projector courtesy of Epson and ProjectorPeople.com! (1 Viewer)

I would put on the bonus materials from The Fountain with all that paint being dropped into water making awesome visuals.

 

[dadkins0]

Boy, a lot of people are worse off than me. I am a senior citizen, retired military, who just loves high tech equipment, but cannot afford them, so I just have to listen to the stories my co-workers tell about their stuff. If I won this item, it would make me and my family very happy. What a way to watch thanksgiving football.

 

[m4rk]

The earliest memory I can recall is being thrown out of a Datsun Cherry Hatchback in the backroads of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. I was four years old at the time. I was nursed back to health by Cole, a kindly blacksmith who specialized in fashioning custom-made broaches for men. He taught me the ways of the hammer, as well as the importance of integrity.


When I was seven, a fitting for a Harpy-styled broach made for Warlocks motorcycle gang member Robert “Mudman” Simon went horribly wrong, and resulted in the latter suffering from a deadly puncture to the heart. Cole sent me to the nearest payphone to notify authorities of the incident, but upon my return, I witnessed my would-be father get brutally skinned alive and eventually murdered by Robert’s vengeful Warlock brothers. The only way for me to avoid death myself was to promise the gang that I would tell the police that Cole had died of natural causes.


The authorities placed me with a couple who ran a tattoo parlor in Long Branch, New Jersey. Life was good, but not great. My skills as a blacksmith translated surprisingly well to the exquisite art of tattooing. Despite fitting into my new family’s trade, I spent much of my formative years contemplating revenge for my earlier adopted father. I considered joining The Breed, a rival gang of the Warlocks. Using a pair of Juttes I acquired at a flea market, every day after school I would hone my combat skills until I knew for sure they would let me in. I changed my mind when damage to our place of business by vandals caused my step-parents Alex and Roy to fall behind on their protection payments, and eventually they were found chained to an abandoned basement wall 6 weeks after they went missing. Their ankles were nowhere to be found. The Breed would claim credit for the incident.


Completely alone and disillusioned, I had lost all sense of purpose in my life. One night, while I was wandering around the campus of Bergen Community College, I met a 38-year-old woman named Shauna I had done some tattoo work on earlier. On her back I had put a dragon circling around a yin-yang symbol, with two flaming ankhs on either side. And on her left shoulder I wrote the Chinese words for “renewal.” It was some of my best work, and she knew it. I told Shauna about some of what I had been through, and she persuaded me to join her Buddhist coven. I have a few personal issues with the idea of possibly reincarnating into an Eskimo, and I don’t really feel that Buddhism holds a monopoly on the idea of forgiveness and finding one’s true path, but when life throws you something good as rarely as it does me, you gotta take what you can get.


After some soul searching I took the plunge, so to speak, and journeyed to China, the Middle Kingdom, where I found a job teaching English at “Shenzhen No. 1 Experimental Middle School” in Guangdong province. I have since been semi-adopted by a family living in the Hua Qiang Bei electronics district. The 4’x9’ kitchen/dining room/bathroom serves as my bedroom, while Ayi, Laoshu, and Jack sleep in the main room. By day they run a corner store in the crowded district selling luxury speaker systems. Nights are usually spent eating grilled sweet potatoes and eggplant, and watching TV through a secondhand 15-inch CRT computer monitor hooked up to the cable box. The eggplant is among the best I’ve had, anywhere.


They are wonderful people, and even though we occasionally have a few rough patches (but what family doesn’t?), it’s all about forgive and forget with them. They take all of their hardships with stride and a smile, and my time spent with them has slowly but steadily restored my faith in others, and in myself. If there was ever a real complaint I heard from them, it would be that the customers at their store tend to get distracted and leave in the middle of the audio demos.


If they had this Epson 8700UB projector, I believe its fantastic and appealing movie-displaying ability would make a great companion piece to their shop’s audio demonstrations for customers. And at night we could take it home and watch the latest Donny Yuen movie, or watch television with Super-Resolution on for some premium-quality sharpness. Jack is looking forward to the upcoming Great Migrations blu-ray, and personally I would love to show him the elegant splendor of those beautiful migrating birds in a gorgeous 1080p resolution with spectacular 200,000:1 dynamic contrast.


They don’t know about the holiday of Thanksgiving here, but I think this projector would be a wonderful way for me to show them. If all the past events in my life were to serve the singular purpose of giving these wonderful people, who never asked for anything from me, such a wonderful gift, then it would have all been worth it.


Thank you, and compliments of the season to you all.

 

[Tjack02]

Over the years, when times have been tough. I have often found myself coping by going to the movies... Wether it was emotional, financial, or just plain loneliness; it has alway helped me to forget about my current situation and even inspire me at times to be stronger than I thought I could be.
About 3 yrs ago, I met someone out of the blue. It was a time in my life that I felt empty and lost about where I had been, and where I was going. It was life changing for both of us...and I must say...the best thing that's ever happened to me. However, it is a little complicated... We live about 75 miles apart. Furthermore, he is a divorced father of 2. And he lives in a very small town where folks aren't very open minded about 2 guys falling in love and becoming a family...and because of that, we stay at home a lot. We really enjoy our time together and try to make the best of it. Because of us traveling back and forth so much, and these tough economic times; We have very little disposable income. We love playing video games, watching movies, and letting the kids have their friends over for movie night. It's something we can do that brings us together and costs very little. My dream would be to make a entertainment room for us that we could really enjoy. One that may allow us a little time to forget the challenges we face and give the kids something to say "wow" about. So to answer the question. We would play some games, then sit back and watch Avatar on the big screen.

 

[JawhnM]

I caught the front projection bug a few years back when I walked into a High End HT shop while visiting a friend in Atlanta. Within days I bought an old CRT projector, then an XVGA 1024x768 DLP. I have a BluRay player but still can't project FULL 1080p. I've wanted a 1080p projector since the first time I saw one and the Epson is at the top of my list.


I live in a military town and we usually have a few guys over for Thanksgiving Day.


1. I think I would start off with the Cheers Thanksgiving episode. This is not yet available on BluRay but the food fight is classic.

2. Then some BluRay Eye Candy, Avatar is the current top choice for picture and sound. I can't imagine how good this would look on this projector.

3. Following the movie it's time for some HD Football (Life sized players just can't be beat).

4. After the games we usually watch a war movie (Did I mention most of the guys are in the Army?). Saving Private Ryan or Black Hawk Down are favorites.

5. Finally we conclude with something a little lighter to move us into the Christmas holiday season, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. What better way to check out all those PJ lumans than with the Griswold Christmas lights.

This Projector would move my modest Home theater to a whole new level.

 

The Family would gather together and watch "It's a Wonderful Life" a Thanksgiving holiday tradition. I guess my hard luck story is that I have been unemployed for over a year now so I have no way to get a FP other than to win one, thanks for the opportunity!

 

[Bill Cowmeadow]

We seem to always watch the Patriot--Mel Gibson, on Thanks giving evening, it has become a tradition for us, and to watch in HD on a big projector screen would be great.

Not really interested in watching the Dallas Cowboys play a terrible game of football, and Detroit don't do it for me either... fingers crossed, waiting, waiting, waiting,...

 

[cthrax]

If I had an Epson HC 8700 1080P project, the inaugural viewing would include some games of "Pain" on the PS3 followed by some Scott Pilgrim vs The World. I can't think of anything finer[SIZE= 12px].[/SIZE]

 

[AllanIsKing]

I would watch the Macy's day parade. I would love to see all the giant balloons on my wall. It would be real cool to see a giant blue smurf on my den wall. Every year my wife says that we should go to the parade, but its always too cold. Its so much easier to watch at home with a blanket on and my fireplace going strong. Plus I can open the bottle of brandy that I got for my 50th birthday. This should put me in the right spirits so that I can stuff my face with all the turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, string bean casserole, .....

 

[Joel-H]

The first thing I'd watch on this baby would be the new Scott Pilgrim Blu-Ray - best movie of the year (so far).

After that I'd watch the greatest movie of all time - Flash Gordon (1980).


Then I'd kick on some football to watch whilst eating my pie.


After that, porn.

 

[keithK]

So I had to give some thought to what I would really want to watch in hi-def on the big screen kicking back after thanks giving dinner. Usually I find myself on the couch fast asleep wishing I hadn’t eaten that second helping. I suppose given the opportunity I might chose to do something a little different with my projector. I have always wanted to build a massive screen and share a movie evening with the family and neighborhood. You know everyone could bring a folding chair, some popcorn, a blanket and their favorite beverage, we’ll take over the court and erect the huge screen and some good sound equipment and project a good movie that everyone can share in. We’ve just seen some great movies come out that are good for the whole family, so I am thinking I’d share, “how to train your dragon”, or perhaps “toy story 3” these are both really good blu-ray movies. I am fairly new to the blu-ray experience and I tell you I have seen some amazing new pictures and experience television in an all new way. I think it might take the experience to another level seeing it larger than life through the projector, add sharing that with family and friends and I am sure it’s an evening we’ll be destined to repeat, we may even have to move it to the nearby park to make room for everyone. We may even father the event movie in the park I can just imagine it now...thanks for the opportunity for consideration good luck!

 

[jcieutat]

We are leaving for Disneyworld the day after thanksgiving (my daughters think we are leaving two days after). This will be my youngest daughters first trip there, she is 2. I plan on playing our most recent Disney trip just before my youngest was born to further the excitement she is already feeling. We recently added onto our house a dedicated HT but I had to go with a budget projector to keep costs down. This projector would just put it over the top.

 

[kdssrugby]

It's certainly been tough reading some of the stories on this thread and I hope that they have a great Thanksgiving, whether they get a projector or not.

I recently moved halfway across the country to do my Masters in Vancouver and will be unable to visit my family or relatives for Thanksgiving due to certain obligations inherent in the pursuit of my degree. This separation from friends and family has not been helped by the depression I've suffered from over the years which has unfortunately led to my becoming insular and hesitant to make new friends. Consequently, I had been planning to spend the holidays by myself doing the one thing that helps me escape: watching movies. However, if I were to win the projector I would plan to hold a movie night for the other History students in my program as a means of breaking out of my shell and starting my life anew. Being history nerds, I would probably want to watch the recently released Bridge over the River Kwai.


Thanks HTF for providing this opportunity to hope for a better holiday event.

 

[Illiop]

A few years ago I set out on the task of building a custom HT setup. I built all of the cabinets, designed and wired the crossovers for the surround speakers and built a massive sub to add the rumble. I ended up getting a low quality television to go with my setup and it is definetly the weakest link. If I won this projector I would be able to finish out my dream system with a quality television to go with all of the hard work I put into building all of my speakers and also justify buying a blu-ray player because I would have something that would display the picture in full resolution, and I would invite my friends and family over to kick off the holiday season off with a few old movies that have now been released on blu-ray as well as the time-honered Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving special. I tremendously hope I win this!

 

[KingNYC]

The movie I would watch on the NEW EPSON PROJECTOR, would be a classic movie with a time honored family tradition of watching "A Christmas Story". Great film and great times always!!! Seeing it that big for the first time would be amazing.

 

[paiaboy7]

I suppose I would watch the same movie I watched last year after Thanksgiving. The Criterion film "Harakiri" by Masaki Kobayashi but this time in glorious 1080p. What would a black and white film look like in 1080p? I watched it last year on my Dwin HD700 720p crt projector and was in such suspense throughout the film I don't think I moved. As a lover of Samurai films I couldn't believe I hadn't seen this one yet. Fantastic! Whether I win or not this will become a strange Thanksgiving movie tradition especially on a full stomach!

 

[tradewind6050]

If I had an HD EPSON projector:


My parents will be visiting me in Baton Rouge, from New York for thanksgiving and I would have a few friends over for the first thanksgiving dinner in my apartment and the first with my family in 5 years. After dinner just as everyone is ready to fall into a food coma from the excessive amounts of mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, home-made cranberry sauce and the doses of tryptophan from the turkey, I would have the projector set up for the debut screening of the 30 minute action film that my friends and I are shooting in HD. Hopefully, screening our film on a big projector with my surround sound would wake everyone up. And with an HD projector we could really see how our work would look on a movie theater size screen and make the hard work, long hours and sleepless nights all worth the wait for an awesome picture.

 

If I won The Epson HC 8700, I would first display my idiot brothers standup comedy bomb and continue with my sisters questionable home video of her and fiance' "Brian" (Who is a loser). After discrediting my siblings the obvious is in order... Stills of my parents and grandparents weddings with a sappy soundtrack that makes you want to puke. (Probably Arrowsmith - I don't want to miss a thing) Now that I am in the best of graces and my Brother and Sister in the worst, I will display HD video of a perfect surround sound system (Epson AP-60) which would go perfectly with a brand new Epson HD Projector. Imagine the grand kids I'd have if this was possible. I love you Grandma.

 

[Paul.S]

Wow on some of the personal anecdotes. I'll just say I'd be motivated to get a few of the BDs already on my Wish List that touch on themes of gratitude, family and the season: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving; Saving Private Ryan; and Road To Perdition.

 

[DanielQuinn]

If you pick me I will host a party for Miss Teen USA contestants. I'll bring up Google Earth and show them where the U.S. Americans live.