recently moved to a veterans home (read 'nursing home')(i'm only 59! with C.O.P.D.) and haven't used my ptl500 in over four months.

fired it up last night here at the home with the sylvania bdp, looked good on screen; working on a small compact 2.0 sound system for use here at the 'home'. workable system should be up and running by tonight.

let there be movies in my (and others) lives once again!

last night i fired up the 500, sylvania bdp, and cheapo 2.0 sound system and showed 'Island_in_the_Sky', c '1953, b&w, 4:3, w very young looking john wayne, james arness, etc....

had an audience of 3 others which added a bit to the fun.

it'd been at least four months since i watched a movie via the pj, etc.
much more fun this way!

running my 500 mostly fri and sat nights for me and my fellow vets here at the 'home'.
most of them retire by 7pm so there's not a big crowd up when it gets dark enuff to run the pj (~8:30 pm).
may try another room that has some sort of light control, etc so i can start movies around 6/7pm.

fired up ptl500 last pm to watch the blu-ray version of 'where eagles dare'.
looked quite a lot better than the dvd which i last viewed about 4 years ago.

been using my 500 2 or 3 nights per week here at the vets home.
still works fine, still bright enough to make me squint on bright scenes.

loving it! :D

just bought two new hdmi to dvi cables (3' and 6') from monoprice.com for the pj as the ~7 yr old original one must have a break in it as it gives a huge green image if bent a certain way.
new ones seem to work ok. :)