Chip McD
Auditioning
- Joined
- May 24, 2003
- Messages
- 4
Hi guys and gals,
I'm interested in building a home theater based on a front projection TV, and I have a couple of questions that I haven't really found answers to in the last week of lurking.
Lets start with the projector. I'd like to pay less than $3000 for the projector. I haven't settled on a format or LCD vs. DLP. I will use the projector for 4:3 DirectTV content, Websurfing, computer gaming, and DVD watching. I'm leaning towards a 1/4 HD format, but I'm concerned with the distortion of 4:3 content. Is the 4:3 content distorted to the point that you would notice it on a projector with a native 16:9 or 1/4 HD? This is my biggest concern because most of the content for the near future will be 4:3. Also, is this something that some sort of off board signal processor can solve? (don't know anything about those yet)
My next concern is the rainbow effect associated with a DLP projector. Can anyone recommend a movie and chapter that is likely to produce rainbows on a DLP projector?
And finally, can anyone suggest a good place in St. Louis to demo some of the lower end DLP and LCD projectors with both 16:9 and 4:3 content that is setup properly. Nothing is more irritating than seeing a piece of high end equipment that a store has made NO EFFORT to setup properly.
Thanks in advance for your help!!!
I'm interested in building a home theater based on a front projection TV, and I have a couple of questions that I haven't really found answers to in the last week of lurking.
Lets start with the projector. I'd like to pay less than $3000 for the projector. I haven't settled on a format or LCD vs. DLP. I will use the projector for 4:3 DirectTV content, Websurfing, computer gaming, and DVD watching. I'm leaning towards a 1/4 HD format, but I'm concerned with the distortion of 4:3 content. Is the 4:3 content distorted to the point that you would notice it on a projector with a native 16:9 or 1/4 HD? This is my biggest concern because most of the content for the near future will be 4:3. Also, is this something that some sort of off board signal processor can solve? (don't know anything about those yet)
My next concern is the rainbow effect associated with a DLP projector. Can anyone recommend a movie and chapter that is likely to produce rainbows on a DLP projector?
And finally, can anyone suggest a good place in St. Louis to demo some of the lower end DLP and LCD projectors with both 16:9 and 4:3 content that is setup properly. Nothing is more irritating than seeing a piece of high end equipment that a store has made NO EFFORT to setup properly.
Thanks in advance for your help!!!