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Spanky Ham
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Location: Comedy Central
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Well, Scott walked over to a standard production Marquee in 06 and did it.
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jcarson
Joined: 28 May 2009
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Location: Melbourne Australia
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| Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 5:00 am Post subject: |
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As I see it I need to get myself out of the mess I'm in and into a good projector without bankrupting me. I've already sunk a bit of change into buying the G70 and shipping it to me so a budget solution is preferable.
From what can gather so far the recommendations in order of "lets save the poor guy some money" are:
Option one: Try and source some good low hours secondhand tubes for the G70
Option two: Sell the G70 and try and buy a comparable PJ locally (Melbourne if possible) a Liquid coupled NEC seems to be a popular choice, which would suit me because I can get a Moome HDMI card for it (all my roof cabling is HDMI)
Option three: Sell the G70 and buy from Curt a good used comparable PJ, and then pay shipping (which is going to hurt the bank acct more than I'd planned).
Option four: Sell the G70 and go digital (Just kidding)
I know i could just use it as is but I cant do it, when I ran through calibration the discoloration was horrible, and while i know this can be minimized somewhat I just cant bring myself to install something that isn't looking great - too disappointing!
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CasetheCorvetteman
Joined: 09 Nov 2008
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Location: Australia
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| Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 11:11 am Post subject: |
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Forget option 4 right now!! Although they are pretty darn good these days, not for the money you want to spend. Not in my opinion anyway. Especially if you prefer a 20,000:1 contrast ratio compared to a 2,000:1 from a digital, you never can tell what youre getting there cause they are given in "dynamic" numbers and not static contrast ratio, so when you see one with 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, its more like 10,000:1 with the dynamic mode switched off, and that is still a full on to full off number.
I quote a piece i like to read when i need a laugh:
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From this website: http://au.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.avbuzz.com%2Faudio-video%2F200812%2FG90%2F0.htm&lp=zt_en&btnTrUrl=Translate
My mate Al has a set of brand new tubes that will apparently suit the G70 (P16LJE08) , but good luck getting them from him!!
As far as the replacing the projector goes, shipping will hurt, but that is a fact of CRT life i spose.
Have you found out if you can get those tubes rebuilt for a reasonable price?
What is wrong with putting a HD Fury 3 up with the projector and connecting the HDMI into that?
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jcarson
Joined: 28 May 2009
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Location: Melbourne Australia
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 3:20 am Post subject: |
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| CasetheCorvetteman wrote: | Forget option 4 right now!! Although they are pretty darn good these days, not for the money you want to spend. Not in my opinion anyway. Especially if you prefer a 20,000:1 contrast ratio compared to a 2,000:1 from a digital, you never can tell what youre getting there cause they are given in "dynamic" numbers and not static contrast ratio, so when you see one with 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, its more like 10,000:1 with the dynamic mode switched off, and that is still a full on to full off number.
My mate Al has a set of brand new tubes that will apparently suit the G70 (P16LJE08) , but good luck getting them from him!!
As far as the replacing the projector goes, shipping will hurt, but that is a fact of CRT life i spose.
Have you found out if you can get those tubes rebuilt for a reasonable price?
What is wrong with putting a HD Fury 3 up with the projector and connecting the HDMI into that? |
Yep if i buy another PJ, and one that cant run a Moome card I'll get a Fury 3, supposedly quite good - as for tube rebuilds, I'm kind of new at this CRT business, the only outfit I know where I could even get tubes from is VDC. Any ideas who might rebuild perhaps in Australia? (not likely though)
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CasetheCorvetteman
Joined: 09 Nov 2008
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Location: Australia
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No one. VDC is only place in the world. Dont know how much they charge per tube.
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