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On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:49:52 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:20:26 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>
>>> As I say, everybody's shouting about 2x the resolution as if it's some
>>> big deal or something.
>>>
>>> Now, if it was 10x the resolution, that would seem more impressive...
>>
>> It is actually a big deal when you have a big screen. Our 16:9
>> projection screen measures 106" diagonally, and there is a *huge*
>> improvement between SD and HD on it.
>
> Heh. And my brother has his stuff all hooked up to a projector giving
> him a 9 foot diagonal picture. Pretty cool to play video game football
> when the players are literally larger than life size.
With our sound system, it's just like going to the cinema - except we can
pause to get more popcorn. And don't have the crying babies that some
parents bring with because they can't get a sitter.
Oh, and our floor isn't sticky. :-)
On the downside, had to replace the bulb in the projector last weekend.
Had a spare on hand, but those bulbs are not cheap. :-/
But yeah, our PS3 is connected to it, so I end up playing the occasional
game on that screen. It's really nice - even my wife likes it, and she
initially thought the idea was ridiculous, but she now admits freely that
it was a good idea. :-)
Jim
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:44:58 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> (Not that modern "screen savers" actually save your screen...)
If they use DPMS, they sure do. ;-)
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> With our sound system, it's just like going to the cinema
My brother had movie theatre seats for a while too, until he realized a
couch was more comfortable anyway. It was amusing, tho. I think he still
has them in storage.
> On the downside, had to replace the bulb in the projector last weekend.
> Had a spare on hand, but those bulbs are not cheap. :-/
That they aren't!
> But yeah, our PS3 is connected to it, so I end up playing the occasional
> game on that screen. It's really nice - even my wife likes it, and she
> initially thought the idea was ridiculous, but she now admits freely that
> it was a good idea. :-)
Yeah. And a wii is pretty spectacular too when you're not looking at a
tennis court that's 20" wide.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Linux: Now bringing the quality and usability of
open source desktop apps to your personal electronics.
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clipka escreveu:
> Am 26.04.2010 21:33, schrieb Warp:
>> Le_Forgeron<jgr### [at] free fr> wrote:
>>> Then came out LCD... from laptop to desktop and TV, they killed the CRT.
>>> The colours drop to less numbers, but this is now an hidden information.
>>
>> Not to talk about contrast...
>>
>> Also, CRTs could be looked at from about any direction and it would
>> always look exactly as good. Only in the last few years LCDs are
>> *approaching* that (many still have problems when viewed from above
>> or below).
>>
>> Then there are the dead pixels, which plagued LCDs for many, many
>> years
>> (only relatively recently LCD vendors have started guaranteeing no dead
>> pixels).
>
> Stick to CRTs if you like - I do prefer to have room enough on my desk
> for /two/ displays with 24" @16:9 and 19" @4:3 size (effective image
> diagonal, not nominal tube size), both presenting their image perfectly
> flat and undistorted, with perfectly sharp pixels, no analog signal
> distortion or beam focus problems, no "pumping" effect with brightness
> changes, no moiree effects with the X11 login screen, less dust
> accumulating on the display, less eye strain from flicker - and no risk
> of my desk collapsing under the displays' sheer weight.
>
> It's all a question of priorities. Yours may vary.
thank you. Saved my time. :)
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On 04/26/10 02:40, scott wrote:
>> Question: Why aren't there any widescreen cinemas yet?
>
> WTF?
POTD
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:33:14 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> With our sound system, it's just like going to the cinema
>
> My brother had movie theatre seats for a while too, until he realized a
> couch was more comfortable anyway. It was amusing, tho. I think he
> still has them in storage.
We thought about doing that, but we'll only be in this house for about
another year, then we're moving again (after the kid graduates college
and moves out, this house is too big for just two of us); we decided that
here in Utah, a house with a room that's easily converted to another
bedroom would be more valuable, so all we have to do is patch the holes
from the mounts for the screen and the projector - no problem. :-)
If we were going to be here longer, I'd have even run the wires for the
speakers in the walls. :-)
>> On the downside, had to replace the bulb in the projector last weekend.
>> Had a spare on hand, but those bulbs are not cheap. :-/
>
> That they aren't!
Got about 16 months of use out of the original one. Noisy when they
blow, too - like a firecracker going off. I'd had one do that to me in a
class I was teaching once, and still wasn't fully prepared for it when it
went.
Looks like I can get my bulbs sub-$300, though, which isn't bad; the
replacement I got was valued at $450 by Mitsubishi.
>> But yeah, our PS3 is connected to it, so I end up playing the
>> occasional game on that screen. It's really nice - even my wife likes
>> it, and she initially thought the idea was ridiculous, but she now
>> admits freely that it was a good idea. :-)
>
> Yeah. And a wii is pretty spectacular too when you're not looking at a
> tennis court that's 20" wide.
Yeah, last year our team did a "development week" (for the course
developers), and one of the recreational activities was a wii connected
to one of the screens in one of the big classrooms - I don't recall for
sure, but I *think* those screens are 20' diagonal.
Jim
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:25:12 +0100, Invisible wrote:
> Question: Why aren't there any widescreen cinemas yet?
I missed this the first time around, don't know about in MK, but over
here, ALL of the cinemas are widescreen.
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> bedroom would be more valuable, so all we have to do is patch the holes
> from the mounts for the screen and the projector - no problem. :-)
Oh, these were just bolted to planks, basically. Totally movable. Not really
the actual movie theatre experience, I'll grant.
We did have a row of airplane seats for a while, after the Frnklin Institute
science museum closed their 747 exhibit and basically threw away the plane.
Did you know insurance companies value a row of 747 seats at about $700, or
at least did when we had the house fire back in 1985?
> If we were going to be here longer, I'd have even run the wires for the
> speakers in the walls. :-)
That works even if you sell the house, mind. :-) I had ethernet put in the
walls before the put the drywall up, but I definitely should have had the
speaker wires run too.
> Looks like I can get my bulbs sub-$300,
I think my brother pays $800 or so for his. They're extra super bright or
some nonsense. :-)
--
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open source desktop apps to your personal electronics.
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>> I'm of the opinion that "full price 1080p" shouldn't be that expensive in
>> the first place, and we should all be saving up for 4096p or something.
>> But I guess that's next year's money draw...
>
> What's the advantage. Your *eyes* only have a limited resolution.
I think they need to increase the frame rate to 120 Hz or something first
before making the resolution higher. 24 Hz is ridiculous.
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> You're telling me it's possible to tell the difference betwee 600dpi and
> 1200dpi?
You can't really compare directly. A lot of printing methods use a
half-tone pattern to show various shades of colour, an LCD needs only 1 dot
to show that colour.
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