CurtPalme.com Home Theater Forum

Analog_Alpha · Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 89 Location: London, Ontario

I'm pulling a Raster here and claiming first post to be mine.

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:19 pm Post subject:

Congrats!

However since none of us own digitals (does my 17" Dell monitor count?), you're here all alone..... Wink

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:48 pm Post subject:

Cue Crickets sound.....

Zebu Fellenz · Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 2567

If I shine my MP3 player through a fresnel lens would that count as a "Digital"

Erik Very Happy

nettwerkjohn · Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 4:28 am Post subject:

does my ruby count?

dculberson · Joined: 05 Jan 2007 Posts: 211 Location: Columbus, OH

I have a digital! I mostly play video games in it. It's in "my room" upstairs. (My wife and I live in a 3-bedroom house.. there's her room, my room, and our bedroom. Smile

It's a little tough to fit a CRT in the 10' x 10' room. So it goes in the basement.

My digital is a Canon Powerlite S1. I got it really, really cheap and it is so ridiculously bright. I can have the lights on basically full blast and you can still see it. The quality is rancid compared to a CRT, though. Just rancid. Bulbs are so cheap, too, though. Something like $150 for 2000 hours of life. That is not bad at all. You're not going to win any awards with this thing, other than "burn your retinas looking at it in the dark" awards.

Alaric · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:37 pm Post subject:

Hi There,

I have a Barco Graphic 6300....It may be a 3 chip LCD, but at the size it is and the build quality, its all BARCO

I picked it up cheap as i was curious, i also have a couple of brand new bulbs and a cm50 ceiling mount....Its come in handy a few times while building the HT room, particularly for hooking up to a console as it has a line doubler built in...

It has its uses....its semi portable, quick to set-up and throws a very bright picture, however its not for critical cinema watching.

cya,
Lee

Jaric00n · Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 137 Location: Nyack,NY

Ok ...my Dell 2405FPW is digital....so?

I went from a Sony HS-10 to a Barco 1209s ....

*pat-pat*

Jaric00n · Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 137 Location: Nyack,NY

*grin*

my laptop uses a digital display too...

anyone remember the portable Compaqs with the Amber or color crt's ??

^_^;;;;;
Huge lunch boxes with dual 5 1/4" drives?

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 10:05 pm Post subject:

Welwynnick · Joined: 04 May 2006 Posts: 229 Location: Welwyn, Herts, UK

dculberson · Joined: 05 Jan 2007 Posts: 211 Location: Columbus, OH

Alaric · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:54 am Post subject:

Hi There,

My monitors are mainly CRT at home, my best being a huge black ibm 24" one that has been excelent...Bought 'cos the wife is an Architect and you need real estate for CAD...she idealy wanted an A1 monitor with paralell motion Laughing

I recently got a rack mount TFT for the HTPC because its small and thin and gives me more rack space for real toys, picture is crap and its always moaning that its oversized or wrong synch, they are far less usable than a CRT there.

I've also picked up a small 12" touchscreen TFT, so ironicaly i'll end up controling my CRT with a digital Twisted Evil

cya,
Lee

Chuck27 · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:19 pm Post subject:

I just picked up a Panasonic TH42PX60 as a bedroom TV, and I have to say I am very, very pleasantly surprised at the picture quality. Shocked

I never had a digital TV before, and my CRT bias had me expecting, well, crap, but once I set up the white level and black level to look more or less OK by eye, the picture....even internally upconverted SD...looks astonishingly good from a distance of about 10 feet.

If anyone is considering a plasma for a second TV, this one is on sale at FS right now, it's the best deal going.

Chuck