Official AX-200 Owners Thread - Page 8

The ceiling in my room is a very dark charcoal grey...

Well, most theatre rooms have dark colors, and ESPECIALLY tend to have black ceilings to avoid reflections. A white projector stands out like a sore thumb!

A very large 40 sq ft white screen is ok in a projector room, but a comparatively tiny white projector is objectionable and stands out like a sore thumb??

Yes. The difference is your are SUPPOSED to be looking at the screen, not the projector

Anybody seen this baby in a store yet?
Preferrably close to Seattle/ Tacoma WA

tia

very NICE pictures not soft at all.

Has anyone calibrated their AX200 yet? What are your settings and which calibration disk did you use?

was the ax100 ever available in store?

What do you guys use for cables?
I have the HDMI hooked up short...but I need some long audio cables. Can I run a long Toslink? And how long is too long...what other options?

Another question about Lens Shifting:

Let's say I have my PJ mounted high against 8 foot ceiling, and the screen mounted high against the ceiling, and I use Lens Shifting to move the projected image by 12 inches to match my screen.

Also, let's say I want to do this without using keystone correction on the PJ.

So, do I have it right in that the steps are:
1) Project straight on to wall from PJ current ceiling mount location. I should see a perfectly rectangular image. It will be centered respective of the lens center. (right? no vert offset in neutral position?)
2) Now I use vert lens shift to bring the image down 12 inches to match my screen.
3) Will I need to use Keystone after shifting the image?

I guess the problem is I do not understand if the lens shifting is 'tilting' the lens or if it is 'panning' the lens. If it is tilting, then surely I'd need keystone correction. If it is panning, then I can't understand how it can possibly have such a dramatic shift in vert/horiz direction, when the shifting of the lens is only a few centimeters at most.

How long is it from your source to your receiver? I'd rather use one long HDMI to the PJ and leave all my audio and source equipment towards the front of the screen. Toslink at a long run tends to jump out of the inputs. If you are going to use a long run, I'd rather run coax. I have a 35' HDMI cable for the PJ and it works fine.

With the lens shift you wouldn't or shouldn't need to use Keystone after the shift provided the projector was mounted level.

This is crazy! But wow. OK, so the lens must be panning. How can the lens pan only 1 unch (for example), yet move the projected image by several times more (~12 inches)?

This lens shifting, if I understand it correctly, is no different than grabbing the whole projector and moving it to the right or left on a coffee table to center the image. If you are off by 2 inches, you move the PJ 2 inches...

Im confused.

Here's a little bit of a read concerning lens shift vs Keystone

http://www.projectorreviews.com/advi...alkeystone.asp

Thanks Mark. I read that, but still doesn't quite explain the inner workings of lens shiting.

I'm considering following the PJ with the dvd player so I can keep the video connection short...but I either need to move the receiver or use a long audio cable...and I prefer at this point to try a long cable....
Also I wondering about the audio signal with either Toslink or Coax...long cable more degradation? Uses with 5.1?

This is the part where somebody with a lot more knowledge than I on the subject jumps in and kindly explains the workings to both of us.
I did find this in a search and it may help a little.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-ente...ion-217383.php

I'd rather use a longer vid cable myself. monoprice is where I bought my 35' component cables for the dvd player I have, and 35' hdmi cable from them also. Works great.

If you want a long cable for audio, I'd use Coax.

your prolly right

I hooked up my 200 last night and watched Blue Planet, Payback, and some of the cool parts of Ghostrider. All these movies were Blueray fed through the PS3.

I did a user calibration with CCs disk they give out with a TV purchase. I adjusted the sharpness, color, tint, and brightness.

All I can say is WOW! I came from a Mitsu HC100U (480P pj), so this thing is absolutely amazing to me. Now I have demoed an RS1 in my home and have seen the Pearl in action. I have to agree with Projector Central's review; this is a poor man's (or woman's) 1080P pj.

I'll be posting up screen shots today and will answer questions in this thread as they are posted.

My theater is completely light controlled and I'm using a DIY 106" Roc-Lon fabric screen (1.0 gain).

SIckPuppy:

See if you can figure out what happens when the lens shift is in neutral position. I need to know if the offset vertically is ZERO when the lens shift is centered. In other words, is the lens cenetered with the screen when you do not use any lens shift? It wouldn't be too obvious to answer unless you set up a test of sorts...

I just checked mine and with the lens shift at zero the center of the screen is the center of the lens in the vertical plane. There is a stop in the adjustment so you know it's zeroed.

Thanks Mark!!!

So now I need to figure out if I would be able to drop the image enough to align with my screen... I have all the info I need for that. Thanks again!

Can you give us more info on the RS1 vs the AX-200, since you had the JVC in your house?

Its too bad you couldn't have done a side by side.

What are you going to use for your screen shots?

HDDVD, Blu-ray?

is this pj now actually much brighter than the pt-ax100? is there evan an improvement over the ax100?

i guess it hasnt the ... iris anymore. but concerning pq, is it really better than the ax100?

I second the motion.

I'm very curious to hear how the ax200 compares to the RS1. By their price, they shouldn't be in the same league, but reality may be quite different.

I'll be using Blueray from the PS3. I haven't gotten to the pics yet (I just watched Hellboy on Blu-ray), I just can't stop watching movies ha ha! Look for them to be posted this evening....

I have never seen the 100 in action, so I can't answer that.

It had been some time (about a month) since I had the RS1, so my memory is a little fuzzy.

I was originally considering the Black Pearl, but decided to get something a little more price conscious (I'm in the Air Force and heading to Korea for a year). I decided to take something a little more "disposable" in case it didn't survive the tour. i will be getting the Pearl upon my return.

with that, this comparison is of course, Apples to Oranges. I'm still in the process of setting up and calibrating the ax200, but was very surprised and pleased with it's performance thus far. It throws a very pleasing picture and what I would consider sharp. I'm still working on adjusting the picture for the best black levels, but would not consider this washed out by any means.

It has several different modes for viewing in three categories: Home theater, Living Room and Game. Within those modes there are more sub-categories to choose from. It has pre-set viewing modes for everyones taste. From ultra-vibrant (RS1 style) to very mild like the Sony.

The detail and sharpness that far surpasses it's price point. I was watching the mountain segment of Blue Planet last night and almost got vertigo from the camera "flying" over the peaks ans valleys. Watching this pj is very "immersive".

Yes it would have been nice if PC review would have said if the ax200 was an improvement over the ax100 as far as sharpness and pic quality.Hopefully someone with an ax100 will get one and compare.I wonder if PR will review the ax200.Still sounds like alot of projector for the money.