New JVC X30 purchased - need EVERYTHING else!! Help!!!

And yes I have seen the "Official JVC X30..." thread, and it is at 132 pages right now and I was getting kind of lost, so I thought I would just ask my questions here.

I have never owned a projector, so after settling on a Mits HC4000 over the last two years and never getting around to pulling the trigger for various reasons, (summer, wakeboarding, busy with work, backyard projects – Ok so my wife wanted her kitchen finished…) I finally today pulled the trigger at our local Big Box store and on the 20th, I will pick up my new JVC DLAX30.

The X30 will be used for;

1. Movies – 2D as 3D just doesn’t excite me right now
2. Sports
3. Inputs to an AV receiver – an Onkyo or a Marantz
4. Dish Network STB ~20% of the time
5. PS3 (or some other standalone BD player) 75% of the time
6. An HTPC – yet to be built, but have been looking at cases, dual video cards and motherboard/processors
7. AV receiver output through an appx. 25’ to 30’ HDMI cable to the X30
8. In a 20’ wide x 22’ deep HT room
9. That has windows (soon to be with thick dark curtains)
10. Used mostly at night

I still need to:
Pick and get a screen, I want a 16:9 120” ceiling mount (not recessed) motorized screen

• What gain?
• What manufacture?
• Screen color/type (white,grey etc)?
• By a ceiling mount
• Suggestions on what and where to buy?

With a 120” 16:9 screen,

• What height off the floor should I shoot for? Dimension “D” in my drawing below
• I have a coffered ceiling that drops down about a foot, the projector will be mounted to the upper ceiling and the screen will be mounted the lower ceiling height, what distance from;
• Dimension “A1” upper ceiling to the center of the lens
• Dimension “A” center of lens to top of screen
• Dimension “B” upper ceiling to the top of the screen
• Dimension “C” lower ceiling to the top of the screen

HT Section - JVC X3.pdf 20k .pdf file
Edited by EricU - 10/16/12 at 9:21pm

My speakers will be placed at the sides and below the screen

Budget: I would like to keep it under $2K

Thanks, Eric

So is this post in the incorrect forum? If so, Mr. Moderator could you move this to the correct forum?

I think my main questions are pretty simple and relate what height a 120” screen should be with a 12’ sitting distance (my “D” dimension)

This then will affect the projector mount length that will control my drawing dimensions “A1” & “A2”

And I figured that out of 132 pages of “Official JVC...” thread the screen gain would be pretty well figured out.

Eric.

So no one can help me out;

1. On the vertical distance from the top of the screen to the center of the lens?
2. What screen material - White, Grey, Pink???? for a dark room with dark walls?
3. What gain for this projector/room combo?

Eric.

And I replied with an email on the 18th

So far,

• I have not ordered a screen
• Have posted the same basic question in a few different sections of AVS and now don’t know which one I should be posting in.
• Am trying to find out the answers to what I thought could be done with a few suggestions or links to specific references – (paraphrasing) not “… read the encyclopedia you lazy…”
• Have been muddling through over 130 pages – sorry that was incorrect, that thread is now over 300 pages and 9,000 posts long!!
• I have a link to ELITEPROJECTOR CALCULATOR (v.022 BETA) that does not list the X30 and I don’t know if the RS40 is the same thing or not

I really thought that my questions were somewhat simple and direct and that my illustration would be clear.

I am just looking for some help to possibly avoid a time or money mistake, I wasn’t looking to fine tune the snot out the X30 (yet) or to find every little possibly thing wrong with it, just some guidance to a couple of questions that I thought were pretty specific.


Eric

Just last weekend I got my JVC X-30 fired up on the Vutec 135" 2.35 screen showing a BD through a PS3 running through a Marantz SR7007 and some Martin Logan Motion 40s. I have wanted an O/H projector for a long time and now all I can say is WOW!!!!!!

I love it!!! and nothing is calibrated - yet!

Thanks to Mike Garret of AVS for the screen.

Eric.