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I asked a question about the best resolution a while back, but forgot that most of you guys has 16x9 resolutions. I've got 3:4, mostly because of my kids, they watch a lot of full screen movies, and because of the winter sports that are fullscreen on norwegian TV. But what I guess I should have asked was what the sweet spot of my projector should be. The setup is this:
Barco Graphics 808 chassi
Brand new Panasonic tubes
HD-144 lenses
Upgraded RGB amps, at least on par with 808S, probably as good as the Cine 8 according to my tech guy
So what should I do with that? 1280x1024, perhaps?
Also I could of course use PowerStrip and my rather advanced control setup. I press 1 on my remote, the screen goes all the way down, and ZoomPlayer goes to fullscreen. I press two, and the screen goes up to mask, while ZoomPlayer goes to 1.85. I press 3 and get 2.35 with subtitles. I press 4 and get 2.35 without subtitles (norwegian subs are around 10 cm below the picture area on two liners). 5 is 2.40 with subs, and 6 is 2.40 without subs. It wouldn't be much trouble to let the widescreen aspect ratios set the HTPC to a good widescreen resolution. But I don't know if that's practical since I have the projector mounted on the floor (room restrictions) and watch the movies on the upper part of the screen (so the masking means that the image goes to the top, and the screen goes as far up as it has to.
Any suggestions would be welcome. Serious suggestions would be especially welcome!
Barco Graphics 808 chassi
Brand new Panasonic tubes
HD-144 lenses
Upgraded RGB amps, at least on par with 808S, probably as good as the Cine 8 according to my tech guy
So what should I do with that? 1280x1024, perhaps?
Also I could of course use PowerStrip and my rather advanced control setup. I press 1 on my remote, the screen goes all the way down, and ZoomPlayer goes to fullscreen. I press two, and the screen goes up to mask, while ZoomPlayer goes to 1.85. I press 3 and get 2.35 with subtitles. I press 4 and get 2.35 without subtitles (norwegian subs are around 10 cm below the picture area on two liners). 5 is 2.40 with subs, and 6 is 2.40 without subs. It wouldn't be much trouble to let the widescreen aspect ratios set the HTPC to a good widescreen resolution. But I don't know if that's practical since I have the projector mounted on the floor (room restrictions) and watch the movies on the upper part of the screen (so the masking means that the image goes to the top, and the screen goes as far up as it has to.
Any suggestions would be welcome. Serious suggestions would be especially welcome!