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MYoung · Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 369 Location: Madison, WI

My solution is just have two home theaters! Very Happy

I have a beater 6PGXtra for gaming and occasional movies in my basement (I play probably at least a few hours of COD MW2 per week) and the 1292Q in my living room is for movies. I have a 6PG with minty tubes waiting to replace the 6PGXtra, though it'll be a while before I need to replace anything, if I even do! It also works out well that the 6PGXtra only runs at 720p for gaming as the games I play on PS3 aren't true 1080p anyway. I seem to recall COD MW was something like 600p that gets upscaled by the PS3. I sometimes find myself even watching movies in the basement setup as I have it blacked-out, there's less fan noise, no streaking (shoulda' dumped my 1292Q for a Runco DTV-1100HD I saw on CL a year ago!), I have a larger screen down there, and 768p @ 48Hz on a PGXtra still looks somewhat decent and is fine for titles where picture quality isn't crucial.

ecrabb · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 6:47 pm Post subject:

Yeah, that sounds great Mike... But, A) I have a wife, two kids, and a small house, and B) when I'm sitting in my theater playing Battlefield, and I'm driving a tank and let a 105mm round go, it sounds like a 105mm round. Smile

I couldn't go back to gaming on a lesser system now that I know gaming on my main system. I could see setting up a 720p digital just for gaming, though I'd need something with lens shift and it would still look like ass hanging under the G70.

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perisoft · Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 2920 Location: Ithaca, NY

MYoung · Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 369 Location: Madison, WI

My house is 720 sq. ft! Granted, no wife or kids and the basement doesn't count. A woman alone would probably require moving considering how much junk I have and the fact that all the closets are already full. I don't think many women would be cool with keeping their hundred and some pairs of shoes in my shed. I don't have a garage but if I did have one, guess what? I'd have a third home theater in there! Ha, ha!

I take it you're gaming on a PC then? I've gamed on a PC with a 1271Q several years ago. Played GTA Vice City and San Andreas from beginning to end on it, and those aren't short games by any means. I don't think that projector got any burn-in but lets face it, even back then, burning a 1271Q's tubes? No loss! These projectors are made for using! I can see your point with the G70 though. Going with a digital under the G70 might be the way to go considering space. I actually considered a ceiling mounted 9"er and my table mounted 8" 6PGXtra for my basement setup. Imagine how low the WAF would be for that setup!

garyfritz · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 12088 Location: Fort Collins, CO

Re: hanging the digital under the G70... Don't most digitals have horizontal lens shift too? Couldn't you hang it *beside* the G70?