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"The Page & Plant (without Jones) tours of 1995 and 1998 were filled with great performances which shows what a little rehearsal will do for ya! I sure wish they'd release some DVDs of those tours." Try Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Unledded, A DVD released on October 26 of a 1994...

I agree that Zeppelin should have been on there. But their performance was, uh, BAD, as all members of the band have since admitted.... Didn't matter to me, though. I was blissed out just seeing them on stage again.

I sure would be interested in hearing from viewers who have both the standard and superbit versions as to differences in PQ....

My prediction? It depends on how much you value screen size. PQ for PQ, you will be disappointed. It's too much to ask of a HD2+ 52" DLP to match the PQ of a direct view, 34" calibrated CRT. Frankly, a calibrated CRT RPTV can get a lot closer, but that has form factor limitations.

That's a tough one. I take it you've called upper-end home theater shops? The trouble with those, of course, is that they are going to steer you to spendy digitals, which may not be the way you want to go. Try the AVS board. Not only may you get referrals to shops, you may get invites to...

Another CRT booster here. Dollar for dollar, in a light-controlled home theater, with the CRT FP properly set-up, there really is no contest. Price independent, it starts to get closer (at maybe 2.5 to 3x, where x is the price for a good 8" EM focus 8 inch CRT FP).

I'd recommend the Lumagen HDPro. $2300, and 1080p capabilities as well. Should be out of beta in the next couple of months, I'd wager. I have a beta unit, and it's very nice.

Interesting. I saw a 65" Mits RP CRT in a reasonably bright room right next to a 70" XBR, and was allowed to use the remotes and the user menus (not the service menus) to my heart's content for over 30 minutes. The Sony's blacks, even in relatively high ambient light, simply could not...

FP for HD and DVDs. Rear projection for SD. And you don't have to worry about "bulbs" being replaced if you buy a decent used CRT FP ;). Run your CRT FP for DVDs at 720p and a 72hz refresh rate, and it's the closest to a movie theater (but better picture than most) I've seen. Run the HD at...

Screen size and increasing quality for less. Those with room are going to jump all over that. What's a Sony 70" XBR LCD go for these days? $5,500? For that money, you can increase the screen size by 30 inches and at least match the PQ with a new digital (or beat it with a used CRT FP ;))

Check out the newest Home Theater issue (September). They liked the Optoma. Best black levels, best deinterlacer, most adjustable, among other things. The comparo was with a BenQ PB6200 DLP and a Epson PowerLite Home 10+ LCD.

Don't want to be a one-trick pony on this board, but for the prices mentioned in front projection, a properly conditioned used CRT projector will provide at least the longevity and, in the opinion of many, multiples of PQ for the same prices.... There are reputable dealers who sell these...

The funny thing is, I don't see rainbows without trying, but I sure as heck do get headaches on all single chip DLPs I've been in front of for any length of time. I wonder whether it is possible to get a headache from rainbows you only rarely see? Or maybe it's something else causing them? The...

I've got an XG75. Set-up by Doug Baisey. Scaled with a Lumagen Vision. Doug's coming up here again soon with my just purchased, beta version Lumagen HDPro, which he will have explored at his leisure before plumbing it in my system. On the first set-up, he got the mechanical right, but...

Where are people getting this "CRT projectors need to be 'calibrated' every 6 months" nonsense? I've seen/heard this repeated endlessly (although never by an actual CRT user, I must add). It's not true, unless by "calibration" you mean 10 minutes of electronic touch-up in the service menu...

The situation you describe--a light-controlled, single-purpose room that you are designing and building--is ideal for a front-projection CRT set-up. It's particularly hard these days to predict what will be available at what price point in "6-12 months", but it's also hard to imagine that a...

I would also add that once you get a CRT front projector hung properly on the ceiling, its weight is a non-factor. As Matthew said, you can get phenomenal values in that market. Although I paid considerably more for my XG a couple years ago ($3500), even then you add a processor, screen and...

A properly ISF'd CRT RPTV will not drift in convergence, to any noticeable degree, "every few weeks". In general, what's the obsession with "out of the box" performance? Personally, I could give a rat's ass about it. What I care about is how the set looks after it's been tweaked, the nature...

Dude--of course they want insane prices! That's the way the system works--there's enough money floating around this country that industries develop around different pockets of it, and "high-end" home theater is one such pocket. Those are not the places you're being advised to check for your...

Nope. No politicans in my family. As far as "converts", that's how we take over (or take back) the world--one viewer at a time. Heh heh.

Another FP fan here. A 92-inch diagonal is roughly the size of a 16x9 image on a 4x3 100 inch screen. If you want to watch SD, or pan and scan (shudder), on the screen as well as DVDs and HD in 16x9, that's a pretty standard screen size. I have such a screen, but if I had to do it again (and I...

Gregg-- I'm not a calibrator, and yet I still know that. I was responding to your statement: "All the 11s and 13s have 64 point convergence. Quad Field focus is pretty much a marketing gimmic (sic)". Sounded to me like you were saying that the first made the second unnecessary. In...

Interesting. Craig Miller doesn't seem to agree re Quad Field focus. Not sure that convergence grids compensate for that.

The 413 has Quad Field focus. If you are going to get the set ISF'd/calibrated, that system gets better corner focus, according to Mits calibrators I've talked to. For the same or similar dough, I'd get the 413, because I don't need a built-in HD tuner. You might.

Actually, if you saw the Sony in a very dark room, and you liked it, and you must avoid front projection, that's probably your set. For your budget, you could buy a Sharp 12000 DLP projector, with plenty left over for accessories, and have a screen at least 30" bigger and a picture with, at...

Sharp 12000 DLP projector. Very good reviews of this product--I think Greg Rogers did one in Widescreen Review. Street price about 70% of retail, which would be within your budget. HD2+ chip. I'm a CRT front projector guy, personally, but this is a nice projector, by all accounts.

One more time: http://www.mghometheater.com

Don't be misled by those ratings--the Mits are excellent TVs. A good calibrator can probably get more out of a Mits than any other RPTV. Check out www.hghometheater.com for what an example of what a good calibrator will do. Moreover, the '04 Mits is their best yet, by a significant margin. If...

Don't get a 613 for its "better picture". It uses the same focus circuitry as the 413, has the same guns, etc. If you get it, get it for the HD tuner. My personal opinion is that an external tuner of good quality is going to be better than the one in the set--I have a Sony HD300, for example...

My Sony HS-10 has this feature as well, but it's not as good as it sounds in principle. The convergence you get when you press the button is fair, but not as good as doing your own service convergence. More importantly, the convergence you get when you do your own is not "learned" by the...