We recently moved into a new house. In our old house I built a little home theater with a Sony HS10 projector. It worked very slick because I had a little closet where I could hide the components and I had a drop ceiling to hide the wires.
Our new house has a similar layout in the basement where I will have a viewing area, pool table and bar. Because it doesn't have the drop ceiling I was thinking that running the wires would be an eyesore and a deal breaker for the better half. I even made the trip to Ultimate Electronics, BB and CC to look at 50ish inch plasmas. At one point I even had one picked out and was ready to get it. But I couldn't quite pull the trigger. I really miss the 100 inch screen I had and I think I want to try and make it work here.
So I'm looking for some advice here. First, the projector. I was happy with the HS10. But I haven't kept up on the latest and greatest. I will plow through the threads here but I'm looking for thoughts on where to start. It will be used mainly for HDTV, Sports and the occasional movie. We used the HS10 as our main TV and while it wasn't perfect for non HD stuff it was acceptable to us. The price of the plasmas we were looking at were in the $1800 range, so I would be looking to stay under $2K on the projector also.
The room is downstairs so light won't be a big concern. On football Sunday's it won't be pitch dark in here because we do have a walkout, but overall the light will be very similar to what we had in the old house and the HS10 did OK in those light conditions.
Thoughts on good projectors to start researching?
Our new house has a similar layout in the basement where I will have a viewing area, pool table and bar. Because it doesn't have the drop ceiling I was thinking that running the wires would be an eyesore and a deal breaker for the better half. I even made the trip to Ultimate Electronics, BB and CC to look at 50ish inch plasmas. At one point I even had one picked out and was ready to get it. But I couldn't quite pull the trigger. I really miss the 100 inch screen I had and I think I want to try and make it work here.
So I'm looking for some advice here. First, the projector. I was happy with the HS10. But I haven't kept up on the latest and greatest. I will plow through the threads here but I'm looking for thoughts on where to start. It will be used mainly for HDTV, Sports and the occasional movie. We used the HS10 as our main TV and while it wasn't perfect for non HD stuff it was acceptable to us. The price of the plasmas we were looking at were in the $1800 range, so I would be looking to stay under $2K on the projector also.
The room is downstairs so light won't be a big concern. On football Sunday's it won't be pitch dark in here because we do have a walkout, but overall the light will be very similar to what we had in the old house and the HS10 did OK in those light conditions.
Thoughts on good projectors to start researching?
