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buschdogg
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:02 pm Post subject: weird setup for sale on ann arbor craigslist |
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First off, I'm not selling this, I just came across it and thought it was weird... so if you want to remove it, Curt, go right ahead. (Though it's not even necessarily a working unit.)
http://detroit.craigslist.org/ele/1067123718.html
Has anyone seen a setup like that before? a Marquee 8500 in a big screen tv case? What was this for, HDTV resolutions well before HDTVs existed? Interesting to see, at least.. maybe someone can pick it up and see if it's working.
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kal
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buschdogg
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting. Bet it looks pretty darned sharp when focused, eh? The screen seems deceptively small in the pic, too, since it's apparently almost 80" tall.
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ecrabb
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, that thing is huge. It would just barely fit under a normal residential 7' door opening. If it's really 58" deep, you'd essentially need a double (French) 3' door set to get it through. Damn it makes a 65" Mitsubishi RPTV look small.
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buschdogg
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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And I'll bet even the mitsi 1080p doesn't look as good as that thing when it is properly setup!
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Zebu Fellenz
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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I bet Curt already has an offer in. That's an Ultra 
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secstate
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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| ecrabb wrote: | Wow, that thing is huge. It would just barely fit under a normal residential 7' door opening. If it's really 58" deep, you'd essentially need a double (French) 3' door set to get it through. Damn it makes a 65" Mitsubishi RPTV look small.
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I don't if it applies to this one, but the Barco versions allow you to swing in the projector so they can go through a "normal" door.
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Heywood Jablome
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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I may send a friend over there for it... I could use the Ultra and he could use the chassis at his gun club.
That's the Retro IV cabinet... I just destroyed the one I got from govliq wrapped around my 9500. Unfortunately, it was not usable as the screen was scratched somethin fierce.
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Kiev Savoie
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and to think i had to buy a whole 80" mitsubishi just to get a fresnel screen and these guys are happy to part it out.
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Kiev Savoie
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How hard are those short throw lenses to come by?
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Heywood Jablome
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The 9501 in mine had HD10Ls. I don't know about an 8500... if its' an LC Ultra it too can use the 10Ls, with slightly different results.
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Elaine Benes
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| Kiev Savoie wrote: | | How hard are those short throw lenses to come by? |
I would be pretty surprised if there were some previously un-heard of "short throw" lenses on that 8500 Ultra inside the Retro cabinet. The Retro cabinets had a slide out mirror that increased the effective throw distance, there would be no need for any different lenses on an air coupled Marquee than the stock HD-8 RevB's. The only reason there would have been HD10L's on a 9500LC inside a retro is because they were available, had a higher focus ability(12 lppm) compared to the plain HD10(10 lppm)they were *optimized* for the screen size. There is no comparable air coupled lens available.
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kal
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sorry guys - I assumed that the lenses would be some sort of special sort throw variety because I believe that's the way that the Barco retro setups work. In other words, on the Barco setups you can't pull out the projector and expect to use it as a regular ceiling projector.
But then, given how things are going today I probably got that wrong too... best to just ignore me. 
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bbfarmht
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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| kal wrote: | sorry guys - I assumed that the lenses would be some sort of special sort throw variety because I believe that's the way that the Barco retro setups work. In other words, on the Barco setups you can't pull out the projector and expect to use it as a regular ceiling projector.
But then, given how things are going today I probably got that wrong too... best to just ignore me.
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draganm
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good job guys, the poor seller must have been so hammered with e-mails he had to pull the add.
if it was an LC then almost certain HD10Ls. I have also pulled a bunch of standard 8500's out of these cabinets and they were all normal plastic HD8's
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Heywood Jablome
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| Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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The seller had an offer of $900 when he replied to me.
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Curt Palme
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Didn't see it, too expensive for me at $900, whatever it was.
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