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Jim Shonk
Joined: 18 Mar 2006
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Location: Zanesville Ohio
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Took down a good working 8500 to make room this thing today, Any tips on set up would be welcome
TIA
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Zebu Fellenz
Joined: 21 Dec 2006
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Read the manual 
And if you get stuck on a step ask question here.
How are the tubes?
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Curt Palme
CRT Tech
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
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Location: Langley, BC
TV/Projector: All of them!
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Take the shrink wrapping off before starting?
Seriously, the SOny manual is amongst the best written out there. Download it from the site if you don't have it, and proceed. If you can do the 8500, you can do the G70.
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NewbieDAN
Joined: 09 Mar 2006
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Location: Bunbury Western Australia
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You'll love it. 
Get yourself a Moome internal card DVI-HDMI whatever you can afford. and enjoy a fine machine.
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Zebu Fellenz
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Get yourself a Moome internal card DVI-HDMI whatever you can afford. and enjoy a fine machine. |
Dan,
What Moome card did you have in your G70? I'm thinking of getting one but I'm not sure how much of a benefit I would see as I am running 1080p 60 over RGBHV with gamma. I have noticed streaking with the RGBHV input. Does the Moome do anything to clear these sorts of things up, or is the Moome better suited to people who want to run direct from standalone players?
Thanks
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CasetheCorvetteman
Joined: 09 Nov 2008
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Location: Australia
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Zebu, it is my opinion, but i reckon youd be wasting your money unless youre using a stand alone player. May as well run the RGBHV straight out the arse end of your computer, cause if youre going to see an improvement going to HDMI connection, your computer needs some attention in the setup department.
You can buy alot of RG-6 quad shield coax cable for the cost of a decent HDMI or DVI lead too, so may as well still to analog signal path if you can put out a good signal from the source device.
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Jim Shonk
Joined: 18 Mar 2006
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Location: Zanesville Ohio
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Well I did a crude set up today, I am still trying to pin down a ceiling mount so I set it up on an old coffee table and did a fast calibration, using my old faroudja VP400A, from what I see so far this was a real upgrade from the 8500
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NewbieDAN
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Location: Bunbury Western Australia
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| Zebu Fellenz wrote: | | NewbieDAN wrote: |
Get yourself a Moome internal card DVI-HDMI whatever you can afford. and enjoy a fine machine. |
Dan,
What Moome card did you have in your G70? I'm thinking of getting one but I'm not sure how much of a benefit I would see as I am running 1080p 60 over RGBHV with gamma. I have noticed streaking with the RGBHV input. Does the Moome do anything to clear these sorts of things up, or is the Moome better suited to people who want to run direct from standalone players?
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Ah....if your running a HTPC then your good to go. I was assuming standalone player, you'd need it as a solution only to get past the HDCP of the player. I've used JohnW DVI card as well as Moomes DVI, waiting on the WAF of a sparkly new HDMI.
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rabies_70
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
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Location: Carlsbad, CA
TV/Projector: Sony G70Q
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Sorry about that jim...I am going to weigh it right now
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draganm
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:16 am Post subject: Re: G70 |
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| Jim Shonk wrote: | Took down a good working 8500 to make room this thing today, Any tips on set up would be welcome
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start stocking up on spare parts now. DC, E, PA,and B boards as spares is highly recommended. Your pic quality might have gone up due to LC and depending on what condition the 8500 was in but reliability went down quite a bit.
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ecrabb
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With all due respect, that's BS Dragan. Could you please stop spreading it? I'm tired of reading your "G70s suck" post in every G70 thread.
Curt has stated several times that there are no significant reliability differences between most of these machines and that they all have their weak points and common failures. If your opinion were true, there wouldn't be any threads about Marquee problems - there are - and the forum would be littered with threads about broken G70s - it isn't. There are as many people here with rock solid G70s as Marquees. Your personal experiences and biases do not necessarily reflect everybody else's.
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mike calcott
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I Second that, there seem to be more problems with other machines posted than G70
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draganm
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| ecrabb wrote: | | With all due respect, that's BS Dragan. Could you please stop spreading it? I'm tired of reading your "G70s suck" post in every G70 thread. |
well no,it's not BS and I think people deserved to be warned. remeber Johnsmith808 in Hawaii. After his ancient 1993 Marquee 8000 broke he "couldn't get LC out of his head". I warned him 4th post down what a pile the G70 is
https://www.curtpalme.com/forum_archived/viewtopic.php@t=13011.html
of course all the usuall suspects jumped in to attack me for saying so.
Not more than 1 month later, after paying to ship that sony to Frickin Hawaii, it turned into a ngihtmare
https://www.curtpalme.com/forum_archived/viewtopic.php@t=13926.html
I sent hime some boards, one ofwhich his PJ fried. He eventually parted it out.
| ecrabb wrote: | | Curt has stated several times that there are no significant reliability differences between most of these machines and that they all have their weak points and common failures. |
NO, he has said the exact opposite. That he see's G70 failures at less than 5K hours that you don't see on Marquee's or Barco's until 30K to 50K hours
| ecrabb wrote: | If your opinion were true, there wouldn't be any threads about Marquee problems - there are - and the forum would be littered with threads about broken G70s - it isn't. There are as many people here with rock solid G70s as Marquees. Your personal experiences and biases do not necessarily reflect everybody else's.
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it's true because for every G70 there are 30 Marquee's and 25 of those people just watch their sets.
| mike calcott wrote: | | I Second that, there seem to be more problems with other machines posted than G70 |
Hey mike I have grown to Love the G70, if you part one out it's a Goldmine. People are always buying parts 
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