Projector

Mitch,

You may have mislead OP with your bigger is better comment. It's not just a space consideration. It's the ability of a projector to throw an adequate picture on a large screen, an ability unlikely on a 150" screen for any projector even thousands of dollars above OP's price range. OP needs to adjust his expectations, and "bigger is better" is not part of that adjustment.

db

Just revisited this thread. Mitch, I stand by my 7/20 post. I suspect your judgement of a high quality picture differs from mine, but perhaps the OP would be satisfied with your picture, which I suspect I would judge washed out and lacking in detail. In my view a projected image should give nothing away to the image of a plasma or LCD display, except greater sensitivity to ambient illumination. Visit the screen shots at AVS.

db

Shadorne,

I think of you mostly as an audio guy, but thanks for reviving this thread. Several years ago, I bought a used Sony VPL-50 (Pearl) projector; it's native resolution is 1080p. Our carpenter built a 100" 1.3 screen using commercially available screen material. Sources are a PS3-80 and a DirecTV HD-DVR, both through a DVDO Edge processor. I use recessed ceiling lights on a dimmer for ambient lighting, so we don't sit in bat cave darkness, but little light impinges of the screen. Black velvet covers the ceiling above the screen, and charcoal carpet covers the wall expect for the screen. The picture quality is at least the equal of the several Sony XBR LCDs we have in the house. We use our projector for TV and film viewing

db