DarrinG
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I am looking into projectors and I want a decent one but I have no idea who is good and who is bad and so on. Could I have some help.
Brands, quality.....
Thanks
Brands, quality.....
Thanks
the two top projectors for under $20,000 are the Runco VX1000 and the Sharpvision. 10000. Both are DLP.One of Tim Martin's 9" E-home projectors will blow either of these away -- for about $16K.
When specs say "4:3 Native - 16:9 Compatible" does that simply mean a widescreen DVD will play with black bars? Thanks.That means it's just like your average TV. With your two most common movie aspect ratio's you'll have very large black bars with 2.35:1 material and smaller black bars with 1.85:1 material. If you go with a native 16:9 PJ, you'll have no black bars with 1.85:1 and small bars with 2.35:1. But, if you watch 1.33:1 material, you'll have black bars on the sides.
If your going to use it for mostly DVD, get a native 16:9.
Peace Out~
Anyhow, in the projector's menu, there was a setting for 4:3 or 16:9. It was set to 4:3 and I changed it to 16:9 but the image just narrowed. I'm not sure what the 16:9 mode is for if it just narrows the image. I must be doing something wrong. 4:3 looked normal with the usual massive black bars at the bottom (source was a Powerbook and the 2.35:1 Moulin Rouge DVD.)the 16:9 setting on the pj is designed to take a 16:9 signal from a dvd player.
otherwise if you set the projector to 4:3 and the dvd player to 16:9- the image will be distorted.
if you set both the dvd player and the pj to 4:3, the image will look correct, but -in the case of an anamorphically enhanced disc- the dvd player would be downconverting the image- you would be losing resolution and possibly introducing downconversion artifacts from the player.
i'm not sure a bout use with a PC as the pc would be doing the scaling.