Anyone else got a BIG screen? (I aint talking about a tiny 50 or 60" TV)

[ch2s]

I got it from GoPCPlus.com for $1060 and they have free shipping to USA, this one might be $100 more but think about the money youll save due to the longer bulb life.

 

[RandomHero]

Thanks

 

[ch2s]

Email me if you want more info, the one I have works best with a PC or progressive DVD player, if youll use it with other sources others might be better.

 

[emad]

my living room is probably the size of my room - our 32 inch is almost too big

 

[ch2s]

"my living room is probably the size of my room - our 32 inch is almost too big"

lol, my room is like 12x12ft, before I got my projector and hung my 72" screen, I thought "holy **** this is way too big", now that I have the projector I think "There must be a way to make it even bigger"

 

[emad]

consider this:
-Projector costs what? $1500 canadian?
-Bulbs cost approx $300 canadian?
-The lecture halls in my school need a new bulb at least once every 2 months - let's make that once a year for regular home use?
-so, that's a $300/year maintenance fee for your projector? Add in any damages that may possibly occur to your screen and we'll make it $310/year?
-The cost of our 32 inch tv when we got it more than 10 years ago was about $6-800 Canadian

My 32 inch tv is over 10 years old and in that time, it was in need of repairs only once - a one time fee of $150. That means, in 10 years, it only incurred $150 in costs.

Lets assume the projector has a max lifespan of 10 years like my tv - that would be a total of 3 grand in maintenance fees on a projector with a screen that's so big that it'll probably blind you in half that time

 

[ch2s]

As I said my projector has a long bulb life so that means 1 bulb per 3-5 years, not per year, I never would have gotten it if it cost that much to operate, it ends up to 10 cents an hour.

If you wanna compare compare something similar not a tiny 32". I could have gotten a 50 or 60" TV but that's $5000, my projector was $1400, so for $3600 less, I got a much bigger screen, that I can make even bigger when I move, and can afford over 50 years of bulb life to match the price of a 50 or 60" TV.

And if you want to do a real comparison, a TV the size of my screen is $20 000 US, I paid $1000 US, that's $19 000 cheaper.

 

[ch2s]

And how can it blind me? Dont you ever go to the theaters? Thats WAY more than 72", does that blind you? NO

 

[emad]

I go to theatres a lot - but The point is that a 72 inch screen for daily use in a small room is completely nuts

 

[ch2s]

It's not for daily use, I use it only when theres something really good on TV thats at least 1 hour, or for DVDs and games, the rest of the time I use my 16" PC screen (I have TV DVDs and all that on the PC).

 

[toyomatt84]

Originally posted by ch2s
Is your 65" a plasma? What technology is it? Because at that size I think theres only plasma in non projection TVs, and i agree projection TVs looks terrible.

Close, it's an LCD litback. It's not on the market. Quite nice when you can get a hookup like this. Expensive as hell though.

 

[2ez2KiLL]

.... i wonder wat it would be like to play counterstrike on taht.. id be an aimbot...

 

[skylineGTR_guy]

NICE I'm going to get a projector for my home theater system