hey everybody
Im new to the crt community, Im 17 years old and my room is pretty small; only 4.15metres (13feet) long and 3m wide (4.2feet),
Ive had 3 digital projectors prior to getting this idea and each time Ive been very unhappy with the black level, I just cant help but look for the blackest spot on the screen and compare it to the black bars and theyve all had pretty crappy throw ratios only giving me a 60inch picture,
my original plan was to trade the crappy digital projector that I had against a crt and I looked at curtpalme.com's requirements and started contacting people on a local swedish advert site and I got two peoples interested, both professionally dealing with these projectors within an hour drive
only one however, told me that he had a spare ceiling mount.
one of the guys is the owner of cinemagine.com and he offered me to trade it in for one of the following:
NEC GP3000 didnt ask for info
Barco 700 with very little wear, didnt ask about time on chassis
barco 800 with very little wear, 25 000 hour chassis
I called him a friday morning asking if he had any projectors calibrated that I could look at and he said he had a Barco 800 so
I went to his home cinema place where I saw the barco 800 and
it was MASSIVE, I'd thought it was half the size so I was really chocked
and I was also chocked by the quality of the image...
and it had 25 000hours on its chassis!!!, focus mustve sucked!
I thought getting a crt projector was out of the question until he showed me some of the smaller units.
Anyhow, now 1 month later Ive painted my room, with a really dark blue color on the walls and light gray on the ceiling,
and I've contacted the other guy whose offered me a color filtrated ecp 2100 with "roughly" 6000hours on chassis (perhaps serviced by runco?), OR a Marquee 8500 (non liquid coupled) if I add an additional sum equivalent to 500usd,
The question is wether I should take the ecp 2100 wih no wear and color filtrated tubes that might have been serviced by runco and hence might be able to take greater resolutions with 6000hours on chassis (electrostatic)
or add 500usd for the marquee 8500 (with slight wear) and 4500hours, what do you guys think? (in any case I will also recieve a ceiling mount)
Or contact the other guy and trade the digital against the NEC GP 3000 or the barco 700.
I can also wait another month and get myself a barco 701s, but Ive heard that most crts are basically the same when it comes to performance, someone wrote that "you could throw a virtual blanket over the 20 top projectors on curt palmes list"
Is that true? in any case I think Ill be statisfied with whatever projector I choose due to the immense difference between a digital and a crt projector..
I might also be able to trade in some computer stuff instead of the 500usd since he seems intrested in trading things..
Best regards and eagerly awaiting your response!
Axel L
Im new to the crt community, Im 17 years old and my room is pretty small; only 4.15metres (13feet) long and 3m wide (4.2feet),
Ive had 3 digital projectors prior to getting this idea and each time Ive been very unhappy with the black level, I just cant help but look for the blackest spot on the screen and compare it to the black bars and theyve all had pretty crappy throw ratios only giving me a 60inch picture,
my original plan was to trade the crappy digital projector that I had against a crt and I looked at curtpalme.com's requirements and started contacting people on a local swedish advert site and I got two peoples interested, both professionally dealing with these projectors within an hour drive
only one however, told me that he had a spare ceiling mount.
one of the guys is the owner of cinemagine.com and he offered me to trade it in for one of the following:
NEC GP3000 didnt ask for info
Barco 700 with very little wear, didnt ask about time on chassis
barco 800 with very little wear, 25 000 hour chassis
I called him a friday morning asking if he had any projectors calibrated that I could look at and he said he had a Barco 800 so
I went to his home cinema place where I saw the barco 800 and
it was MASSIVE, I'd thought it was half the size so I was really chocked
and I was also chocked by the quality of the image...and it had 25 000hours on its chassis!!!, focus mustve sucked!
I thought getting a crt projector was out of the question until he showed me some of the smaller units.
Anyhow, now 1 month later Ive painted my room, with a really dark blue color on the walls and light gray on the ceiling,
and I've contacted the other guy whose offered me a color filtrated ecp 2100 with "roughly" 6000hours on chassis (perhaps serviced by runco?), OR a Marquee 8500 (non liquid coupled) if I add an additional sum equivalent to 500usd,
The question is wether I should take the ecp 2100 wih no wear and color filtrated tubes that might have been serviced by runco and hence might be able to take greater resolutions with 6000hours on chassis (electrostatic)
or add 500usd for the marquee 8500 (with slight wear) and 4500hours, what do you guys think? (in any case I will also recieve a ceiling mount)
Or contact the other guy and trade the digital against the NEC GP 3000 or the barco 700.
I can also wait another month and get myself a barco 701s, but Ive heard that most crts are basically the same when it comes to performance, someone wrote that "you could throw a virtual blanket over the 20 top projectors on curt palmes list"
Is that true? in any case I think Ill be statisfied with whatever projector I choose due to the immense difference between a digital and a crt projector..
I might also be able to trade in some computer stuff instead of the 500usd since he seems intrested in trading things..
Best regards and eagerly awaiting your response!
Axel L
