Houston, We Have Liftoff
Well, we received our projector yesterday. So, after our soccer game, we made a trip to Wal-Mart to pick up a couple component video cables and an optical audio cable for our home theater system. Finally, we have all the pieces we need.
Last night, once we got home, we set up our projector and fired it up. Absolutely awesome. We watched the second half of The Fellowship of the Ring (we watched the first half the night before with Nate). The screen is about 94" diagonally and the picture quality is excellent. I love it. Some of the motion landscape shots in that movie are just breathtaking on that screen. Of course, the surround sound doesn't hurt at all, either. The drums beating in the background of some of the fight scenes are just intense when you can feel it rumbling the couch. :)
Anyway, now that we've got our system set up, we need to clean up our basement. Needless to say, after entertaining guests all weekend and setting up this whole system, it's a mess. Tack up one more thing to do before we leave on Friday. *sigh*
So, that's about it for me. Peace.
Corey
Last night, once we got home, we set up our projector and fired it up. Absolutely awesome. We watched the second half of The Fellowship of the Ring (we watched the first half the night before with Nate). The screen is about 94" diagonally and the picture quality is excellent. I love it. Some of the motion landscape shots in that movie are just breathtaking on that screen. Of course, the surround sound doesn't hurt at all, either. The drums beating in the background of some of the fight scenes are just intense when you can feel it rumbling the couch. :)
Anyway, now that we've got our system set up, we need to clean up our basement. Needless to say, after entertaining guests all weekend and setting up this whole system, it's a mess. Tack up one more thing to do before we leave on Friday. *sigh*
So, that's about it for me. Peace.
Corey
posted by MC at
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
3 Comments:
Yeah, I bet that true digital connection with the optical connection made quite a difference, along with the component video as opposed to the lone vga you were using, too. Awesome!
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Unknown, At
7:11 PM
Now I'm confused. You said lone VGA. Did you mean RCA (as in composite)? VGA would do better than component as the timing gets its own pins (I believe). Not to mention that VGA cables tend to be more shielded.
Optical is very nice. My only warning is to be careful with the wire. I've already had one go bad that was behind my TV that I never touch. A small break in optical is death for the cable. If you have problems down the road, I'd suggest replacing it after the obvious settings/plugged-in tests. I spent like a week trying to figure it out as it was intermittent... lo and behold it was the cable =)
Sounds like you have a very nice setup though. I'm jealous.
Joe
By
Anonymous, At
8:59 PM
It was RCA, my bad.
By
Unknown, At
4:14 PM
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