Gordon: I know it sounds wild but before you invest in a new screen try painting the wall behind it with a flat white paint. Then put a black border around the white area. Then overshoot the image onto the black area just a little bit for proper framing (like what they do in the movie...
Dave: Another place to check out the prices on the PLV 70 is with Home Theater People. They too take the projectors out of the box and see them in action and know how they work before they ship them out. Another great resource for a review done by a friend of mine at The Big Picture, Jeff...
Gordon: Definitely set it up with the Avia disc for getting your brightness and contrast levels set right. This will set your pluge pattern for blacker than black and your white level. Then you go to the color bars and adjust then get skin tones, etc. down. I doubt very seriously that the Z1...
Gordon: So what did the 70 look like when you fired it up? What have you decided to do to replace your panel? Wood? Plexy? Have you thought about isolating the connectors with an O Ring or similar? Parker
David: Thanks for quoting me but I prefer Parker to Patrick. :) Gordon: I can't wait to see what you think of the 70. If I were going to be getting one this would be my projector of choice too. What do you think of your Rockets? PS: I like what you have done for a HT room too...
I want pictures when you get this all set up. I know you are going to be smiling a lot once you get this set up and running. You are also going to be either going to the movies less or when you go to the movies you are going to walk out thinking "I wonder how this is going to look on my HT when...