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**AnalogRocks**

Jan 1/10 1:45am

I'm just (re) working my HTPC to play bluray's at 1080i/72.
Currently watching Braveheart Sapphire edition

What geeky thing are you doing now?

macgyver655 · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 8508

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 7:56 am Post subject:

Ok, you got me there....er.....here. That's a pretty geeky thing to do.

huggy · Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 8:01 am Post subject:

Ripping bd's and converting to mkv's,I've just finished Inglorious Basterds and am now doing District 9 Very Happy

Dave

LOTREE · Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 8:13 am Post subject:

Just home from tonites shindigs reading what you're all posting. Went out looking for screens today as I'm itching to get the projector setup correctly. Going to check out some WilsonArt next week then hope the HTPC is shipped from NCIX and I'll also need either a VGA extension cable or just a longer BNC one. Nothing Geeky yet... Rolling Eyes

akajester · Joined: 09 Jul 2008 Posts: 934 Location: Wisconsin

remuxing transformers 2 imax edition for tonight viewing. while waiting, vpn'd into work to turn off the "check filter" alerts from the server room cooling unit. I woke up to over 250 emails from the darn thing. Smile

Matrix · Joined: 06 Sep 2006 Posts: 123 Location: Indianapolis, IN

Have to swap out monitors on this computer today. This one is having issues with the HV supply and flickering. Not too geeky but necessary.

Zebu Fellenz · Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 2567

Muxing BD's and HD-DVD's to MKV on my HTPC, done ~50 so far.

emdawgz1 · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 7949

Scanning Computer websites putting together an htpc for the Bedroom and a NAS unit for the network...

MikeEby · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 5237 Location: Osceola, Indiana

Tinkering around with the eac3to gui.

Mike

BradTheAggie · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 651 Location: Oak Point, Texas

Trying to get UltraVNC to work under Windows 7 Professional...

macgyver655 · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 8508

Readin all the crap you geeks are postin.......... n Laughing

JK.............

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

Investigating the cause for a speckle problem in the display of a Barco SLM R6 3-chip DLP projector. It looks like stuck pixels, but only
when there's an active signal present. Which means it's NOT stuck pixels Interesting. Some of the pixels flicker rapidly but at a clearly visible rate, as well. And a few go on and off erratically.

I have two of these PJs to go through and test, and eventually, sell. Perhaps one will give me the cure for the other.

CJ

macgyver655 · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 8508

Could be a poor connection from 1 of the DMD panels to the main board. The DMD is usually a solderless BGA style to its board and usually a film style ribbon cable to the main board. Also could be a connection in other locations.

mp20748 · Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 5:01 pm Post subject:

macgyver655 · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 8508

Does it have an OSD? If so are the sparkles in the menu also?

garyfritz · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 12088 Location: Fort Collins, CO

Visiting in-laws in Phoenix, so no projects. Geekiest thing I'll do today is take my kids to Avatar 3D Imax. Smile

ecrabb · Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 5:32 pm Post subject:

Laying out all the pages and hooking up IR codes for the iPhone- or iPod touch-based remote I'm beta-testing, so I can start making custom buttons for it all.

SC

MikeEby · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 5237 Location: Osceola, Indiana

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

Yes, it has OSD and the sparkles (lit pixels) are visible in them, and in the internal test patterns. I'll investigate the service menu
adjustments and see what's in there. And, some adjustments require a PC connection, I think. If I can get the software from
Barco, that may be the way to go. Hopefully it's just a free download.

I'm also having trouble getting the unit to display a picture from an upscaling DVD player with a DVI output. I'm going straight from
DVI to DVI (the PJ has two DVI inputs and yes, they're selected active) and I can see the Samsung startup screen but when the disk
goes to play, the screen goes blank. Background only.

I'm about ready to grab my extra computer from work and bring it into the garage and just feed it signals via 5 wire from VGA.

These projectors came from a theme park attraction. I'm still not quite sure why they were surplussed out as they're in generally great shape and the lamps are (a) hideously expensive, and (b) are very low hours. The only real problem is that there are two projectors
but only one lens between the two of them. And those lenses are expensive. The one lens I got with them is very short throw, just
screen height x 0.85. I'd prefer a lens that was a little longer, around a throw formula of 1.2 to 1.5. But I can't be picky.

If anyone has any extra Barco TLD lenses hanging around, part number starting with R98406xx, R98407xx, or R98409xx, I'd sure
like to see about making a deal if it's one of the right lenses.

CJ