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Hi, I would really appreciate some advice on the best type of screen to use with my new dedicated HT room. The room is totally light controlled and is always set pitch black for viewing. The screen (for want of a better word!) is just a 150" diagonal matt white painted rectangle on a matt...

Travis, Go for it! I'm sure the PLV-70 is an excellent projector. Can't say I've ever compared the specs to my Sony - and don't really care either - it seemed the best at the time. There are plenly of other threads to read in this forum if you want to discuss relative merits of projectors, and...

My experience if I may - I also have a 150" diagonal 16x9 screen in a large room. My viweing distance is approximately 17 feet from the screen. The walls, ceiling and screen wall are painted matt black with the screen being an overlaid rectangle with flat-white ceiling paint. The carpet is a...

Just bought the R4 BTTF set and am blown away by the quality! My system is front-projection onto a 150" screen, so flaws really show up. Not so with BTTF. Considering this series is now some 15 years + old, the transfer is superb. Colours are deep and rich, no annoying artifacts and great use of...

Hi, I've just purchased a new Sony VW11HT projector. After reading several articles on tweaking the settings for maximum performance for both NTSC and PAL signals, I was wondering if it is possible to save the ideal settings for both permanently. Can I set it up somehow to toggle between, say...

I think the point has been missed here in some instances. Anamorphic squeeze is all about picture quality. Has nothing to do with size. A non-anamorphic 1:85:1 dvd will occupy the same real estate on a 4:3 TV as it's anamorphic equivalent, but the quality of of the latter will be so much better...

DVD and HDTV always looks more impressive on widescreen TV. Black bars on the top and bottom of a 4:3 display annoy me visually, yet I can live with black bars at either side of a widescreen TV (ie displaying a 4:3 image on a widescreen.) Something akin to movie theatres where curtains open from...

My projector is native 4 x 3, but like many, is switchable to 16 x 9 to take advantage of anamorphic DVDs. My question is, can an LCD panel suffer any kind of permanent "burn in"? Most of the time I leave the projector in 16 x 9 mode but when I switch back to 4 x 3 a very faint thin blue line...

I am led to understand all LCD projectors have internal line-doubling, but CRT projectors don't. So, aside from some obvious colour/contrast advantages of a CRT unit, which is really going to look better - a DVD player hooked up to the s-video input of an LCD projector, or the same hooked up to...

The R4 version of "Conan The Barbarian" is superb! I guess it is exactly the same as the R2 version. The 5.1 sound is absolutly awesome! I don't really know or care whether it is a mono remix or whatever, but it is very pleasing to the ear. The anamorphic transfer is also amazing for a movie of...

Something else I have heard may need to be considered in the NTSC vs PAL forum is the different colour temperature for white used by each format (please shoot me down if I am wrong!). I have a number of R1 NTSC disks which are distinctly yellower in colour compared to their R4 PAL counterparts...

Yep. Nothing really surprises me anymore, but the reason, if true, does seem trite. Anyhow, no way will I the buy the R4 P&S version. I've recently ordered the WS version (R2) from Blackstar in the UK. Great mob of people to deal with ... ! Highly recommend them. Looking forward to its...

Totally agree with all said! The thought of pan & scan only makes me shudder. In Australia, "Harry Potter" is available P&S only .... so I purchased out of the UK instead who at least gave me a choice. Further more, as sales of widescreen TV sets gain ground, these same people crying for pan &...

Natalie, we too have recently moved into a new house where we were able to dedicate an entire room for HT. The room is about 20 x 15 ft and here's how we set it up :- painted all walls and ceiling matt black and hung dark curtains to reduce acoustic "brightnes" and give the room a real theatre...

The projector has two temperature settings - High (optimised for PAL white temperature) and Low (optimised for NTSC white temperature). I use high by default. I tried the low setting which reduced the impact of the hot spot, but it was still there. Overall, the low setting has too much red push...

Hi, My Sony projector starts out fine from cold, but after about an hour or so one small portion of the display (around middle top)seems to take on a slight green cast. "Dark" movies with greys are most affected. For example smoke from a chimney in a movie scene will start out blue/grey then...

Neil, the screen is nothing too formal. I am projecting against a 16x9 aspect wall panel finished with a pure white flat latex paint. Not sure what that would relate to in terms of gain. The rest of the wall surrounding is matt black. The other walls are covered by dark curtains. Any light spill...

For a couple of years now I have been using a Sony projector (not the 10HT) as FPTV. The model is VPLX600 which has a 16x9 mode and displays a beautiful picture with anamorphic DVDs. Eventually I would like to fit an anamorphic lens in front so I can use the entire LCD panel, but these beasts...