Greetings,
A friend directed me to the AVSForum site and, I must say, I'm impressed and overwhelmed with your collective knowledge of digital projectors.
I've been doing what I thought was pretty solid research and making purchases only to be disappointed with the results. eBay is becoming the dumping ground of those mistakes...
Here's the situation and I'd greatly appreciate all thoughts/recommendations on how to improve it:
We have a new home with a 16x19 'bonus room' we're making a Theater. It has a vaulted ceiling. We've mounted a component rack on one wall and are throwing a projected image about 19 feet to the opposite wall. The projector sits on the top shelf of the rack (about 8 feet off the ground). We have a DirecTivo, DVD and VCR connected to the projector. "Which projector" you ask? Read on...
We started with an InFocus LP350. XGA 1024x768. Cool. Well, it doesn't keystone video - only data. With the projector that high up off the ground, we had to be able to keystone. We sold that projector on eBay.
We upgraded to an InFocus LP500. SVGA 800x600. We weren't projecting HD and keystoning was more important. Selecting this projector kept us in the
A friend directed me to the AVSForum site and, I must say, I'm impressed and overwhelmed with your collective knowledge of digital projectors.
I've been doing what I thought was pretty solid research and making purchases only to be disappointed with the results. eBay is becoming the dumping ground of those mistakes...
Here's the situation and I'd greatly appreciate all thoughts/recommendations on how to improve it:
We have a new home with a 16x19 'bonus room' we're making a Theater. It has a vaulted ceiling. We've mounted a component rack on one wall and are throwing a projected image about 19 feet to the opposite wall. The projector sits on the top shelf of the rack (about 8 feet off the ground). We have a DirecTivo, DVD and VCR connected to the projector. "Which projector" you ask? Read on...
We started with an InFocus LP350. XGA 1024x768. Cool. Well, it doesn't keystone video - only data. With the projector that high up off the ground, we had to be able to keystone. We sold that projector on eBay.
We upgraded to an InFocus LP500. SVGA 800x600. We weren't projecting HD and keystoning was more important. Selecting this projector kept us in the