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Fujifrontier
Joined: 20 Oct 2007
Posts: 354
Location: San Antonio, Texas
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| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 4:06 pm Post subject: Infinity reference projector |
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You don't have to tell me that this thing probably isn't worth the trouble of going to pick up... howevvverrr..
http://sanantonio.craigslist.org/ele/1599775474.html
Anyone know anything about it? The seller hasn't responded and I love these old beasts so i think I might give it a home just 'cuz. if anything i might be able to stuff the old sony i have in there 
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ecrabb
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Joined: 13 Mar 2006
Posts: 15909
Location: Utah
TV/Projector: JVC RS40, Epson 5010
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| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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Holy crap, that's now the second one of those I've seen on the forums now, and only fourth beyond the two my old man and a friend of his bought in the late-80's. It's the projector I watched for years when I was home from college. He had it set up on the 6' diag high gain screen from the Advent it replaced.
Hell of a set back in the day, IMHO. Curt says it was a POS, but I'm not convinced it was the same set he thinks it was. All I know is it was used for nearly daily viewing in my folks' house for the better part of 20 years, and it never even so much as burped, and always looked excellent. Damn impressive if you ask me.
Here's another thread on it:
https://www.curtpalme.com/forum_archived/viewtopic.php@t=10204.html
Hey, you even posted in that thread!
Video- (480i) only, analog convergence, 25 year old set. What else do you want to know about it?
I don't think I'd spend $40 on one, but that's because I already have too much crap laying around. Might be fun to play some vintage video games on or something...
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garyfritz
Joined: 08 Apr 2006
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Location: Fort Collins, CO
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I'm surprised it was only $4000 new. Obviously it's a different price point / specs / build quality than the $20-40k projectors we mostly use...
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AnalogRocks
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Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 26706
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
TV/Projector: Sony 1252Q, AMPRO 4000G
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| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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| garyfritz wrote: | | I'm surprised it was only $4000 new. Obviously it's a different price point / specs / build quality than the $20-40k projectors we mostly use... |
Yeah these were aimed at the home market where as our projectors were aimed at the industrial markets
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ecrabb
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Joined: 13 Mar 2006
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Location: Utah
TV/Projector: JVC RS40, Epson 5010
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Guys - This is a mid-80's video-grade projector we're talking about. There were no $20-40,000 CRT projectors then - in any market... The video-grade Sonys, Zenith's, NECs, etc. weren't far out of the Infinity ballpark... About the same to about double. The heavier-duty multiscan data and graphics grade machines started coming a few years later, and that's when the prices started really amping up.
Plus - Don't forget - $4000 in 1985 was serious money... A loaded Mustang GT convertible was $15668. So, $4000 then was probably about the same as $8000 now.
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