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- Cornelius Qualley
Hello, I'm new to the forums here and just wanted to see if anybody had any input on a problem that I'm experiencing. Okay, so I just moved in to my own house and renovated the old basement to include a full theatre room with a complete in-wall speaker system, 16x9 fixed projection screen, and ceiling mount projector. In my last few apartments I used a huge 4:3 screen which worked fine, however I decided that most of my content is either HD or widescreen I would switch to that format in my new install.
So, everything looks great and I love it except for one major problem that I'm just now noticing. For my projector I'm using a ViewSonic PJ551 (LCD, XGA) which is pretty much my only choice because of the fact that I need the short throw for the theatre room and for the business applications where I also use this projector. Anyway, as I'm sure everyone knows LCD = poor contrast ratio (at least with this model as compared to DLP). Although I'm fine with the image quality on the movies, I've noticed some serious light overthrow on the top and bottom of my screen. The reason being, this is a 4:3 projector and it basically just blacks out (or more like a dark grey :frowning: ) the top and bottom of the image in order to create the sudo 16:9 image.
So, what I'm wondering is if anyone has any suggestions on taking care (or covering up) the light above and below the screen, aside from a new projector. It's only noticeable when the room is very dark, but it is a theatre after all, so that's pretty much all the time. The only thing I can think of is some sort of ghetto way to cover the top and bottom of the lens, which admittedly is ridiculous. Or, to maybe install some dim strip lighting below and above the screen to make it kind of glow thereby covering up the overthrow. Please, if anyone has any recommendations on this I would love to hear them!
So, everything looks great and I love it except for one major problem that I'm just now noticing. For my projector I'm using a ViewSonic PJ551 (LCD, XGA) which is pretty much my only choice because of the fact that I need the short throw for the theatre room and for the business applications where I also use this projector. Anyway, as I'm sure everyone knows LCD = poor contrast ratio (at least with this model as compared to DLP). Although I'm fine with the image quality on the movies, I've noticed some serious light overthrow on the top and bottom of my screen. The reason being, this is a 4:3 projector and it basically just blacks out (or more like a dark grey :frowning: ) the top and bottom of the image in order to create the sudo 16:9 image.
So, what I'm wondering is if anyone has any suggestions on taking care (or covering up) the light above and below the screen, aside from a new projector. It's only noticeable when the room is very dark, but it is a theatre after all, so that's pretty much all the time. The only thing I can think of is some sort of ghetto way to cover the top and bottom of the lens, which admittedly is ridiculous. Or, to maybe install some dim strip lighting below and above the screen to make it kind of glow thereby covering up the overthrow. Please, if anyone has any recommendations on this I would love to hear them!