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Well, yea - 35 miles is NOT a short 10-20 min drive (like my Other BB location). My main one is 5 mins from my house. --- Good to see your PJ should be there tomorrow!!

Cool. :D

TGIF Troy;)
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Today is the day! 3D projector will be in my basement tonight! :banana:

Congrats Troy.....I know this has been a long day coming......I bet you are excited.

Congrats!!!

A happy Friday for many of us today.

The Oppo 93 has just arrived... :rock:

You're going to have lot's o' fun this weekend too, sir! :thumbsup:

YAY! My projector arrived at the Lancaster Fedex Store at 9:30 this morning - I sure wish I could take a half-day off work at lunch and just go get it right now! :(

CONGRATS Troy! I got my avr yesterday, so I should be hooked up by tonight and ready to watch 3-D as well. :)

It's good they created weekends specifically for HT upgrades - I suggest we officially declare the 2nd weekend of February of every year henceforth as "National Home Theater 3D Upgrade Weekend"... :cool: :D

...or...."Lets Spend Our Tax Refunds Day"...... :)

AS long as you are paying for my upgrades I'll call it what ever you want to call it. Hell it could be T-ROY Weekend.

Hey T-roy...I'm heading out for the day. I will see you tomorrow at noon.

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Tommy want wingy

See ya tomorrow, Dan - at High Noon! :rock:


Some new photos for ya's all:


The Box...
http://troyfrey.com/forum/flood/5010box.jpg


Whoa!
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Not much comes with it - power cord, remote, batteries, HDMI cable clips, and user manual on CD...
http://troyfrey.com/forum/flood/accessory.jpg


Wow, this projector is a monster compared to my HD20... :eek:
http://troyfrey.com/forum/flood/compare.jpg


How to modify a projector mount for 10 bucks - a big piece of 1/4" plexiglass and a few bolts, washers, and lock nuts! :rock:
http://troyfrey.com/forum/flood/pjmount.jpg

Congrats and TY for sharing the pics:rock::D

Very nice, congrats on the new pj.

Hahahaha, very nice "modification" there Troy! ;)

Congrats on the new toy!:rock:

Looking good, Troy!!!

Good Morning, HT Enthusiasts! It's a lovely, snowy day here in Pennsylvania - great day to work in the theater room! :cool:

Just about ready to mount the new projector on the ceiling - temporarily in the exact same spot the old projector was mounted. I just want to get it up and running on the mount so I can do some calibrations. Eventually I may move the mount to another spot in the ceiling to get it out of the way of wandering heads, since the projector is so large.

Right now I have to run over to the hardware store to get some shorter M5 bolts - the ones I bought last night were a bit too long... I also want to get some parts to construct a security chain to attach to the mount as well - the entire projector and mount will be suspended by a single 1/4-20 bolt from the down-tube, and if the threaded base happens to pop out of the bottom of the tube, I don't want the projector dropping straight to the floor - a catastrophy just waiting to happen! :eek: :eek: :ohnoes: The tube has holes drilled through it that I can mount a hook or eye to attach a chain to...

Anyway, now that I have both projectors down from the ceiling, I took a pic of the two side-by-side, so you can really see how much different in size they are - The Optoma weights 6 pounds, and the Epson weighs 18 pounds!

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Looking good T-roy. Just stopping in quickly. Got my taxes done this a.m. and now quick trip to Giant. See ya soon

Morning, Dan - Just leaving the house, Headed for Beanie's right now - see ya at Noon! :rock:

Congrats on the beast. :rock:

Wow, I can't believe the size of the epson! That is nice! Congrats!

Ditto that!!

Looks like a Slide projector we'd see in a 5th grade Science class next to that Awesome EPSON PJ:whip: :rock: :rock:

Wow congrats !!!!! Shes a beauty .... :rock:

Looking good Troy. Hurry up and get er done. I tried out a 3-D blu last night after I hooked up my Onkyo, and I love it. I can only imagine what it would look like on a pj screen. :eek: CONGRATS!

:sleep2: :ahh: Wow, I ate two dozen wings, a cheeseburger, and 3 mugs of Hopdevil Ale at Beanie's Bar today for lunch, hangin' with Valore... just woke up from a little afternoon nap, after eating that big feast... :dizzy:

Gotta get back to work on my projector project now! :whip:

:eek: Damn it man! I would still be sleep. Looking forward to the new pics. :rock:

:eek: There sure is a little difference in the projectors' sizes.

Be, need to change your signature!:whip:

BTW* :shrug:

Good damn autocorrect.:mad:

"GOD" even? :rotfl: :rofl: :lolcry:

:banghead:

My sausage fingers have trouble typing on a regular keyboard, even - and I work in IT, lol... That's why on my computer at home, I still use a big old IBM PS/2 keyboard from the late 1980's, with the clicky-clacky keys... :rock:


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SO anyway, I got my new projector installed on the ceiling mount, along with my home-made security chain - it's bigger, but it's not really that much more in the way than the HD20 was, so I guess I'll let it there for awhile and see if it works out...


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How difficult is it getting the throw angle and ratio adjusted when you put a new projector in the exact same place of an old one? Was is tough to get the picture to fit the screen perfectly?

Not at all - If you look at the top of the Epson projector in the comparison photo, see the two smaller dials behind the big focus and zoom rings? Those are vertical and horizontal lens shift dials, to adjust the position of the screen image. SO, you just mount the projector pointing straight ahead and perfectly level, and then use the lens shift dials to zero-in the image on the screen. If I want or need to, I can even mount the projector way off-center, almost even with either side of the screen, and still get it to fall properly onto the screen... :rock:

Most of the higher end projectors have adjustable lens shift; My Optoma projector just has a fixed vertical lens shift, and no horizontal lens shift at all - so that projector has to be mounted perfectly cetered on the screen, and then because of my low ceiling, I had to tilt the projector upwards about 10 or 15 degrees to get the picture on the screen. That makes the sides of the rectangular image slightly distorted, angling out at the top - a couple inches wider at the top than at the bottom. Then you have to use keystone correction in the projector to fix that (just like the adjustments in old CRT monitors).

My Optoma has keystone correction too, but I hate using it because it messes with the native picture. Does the lens shift on the Epson squeeze or pull the picture?

No, lens shift doesn't distort the picture at all, so you don't get the image quality issues like keystone correction may give you. I didn't use the Keystone correction on my Optoma either, I just let the top corners of the image go out onto the black border around the screen - you could hardly even notice it. :cool: