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jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

i have a 7' x 11' screen i still have the old zenith running until i can find a ceiling mount for my new g 70's. the zenith is running outside of the used phosper area and produces lighter bars on the outside showing the unused phosper.(the pj came out of a sports bar and was set at 80". i want to set up my g 70 at roughly the size of the screen i have would that be PUSHING the tubes?

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 9:19 pm Post subject:

Way to wide. Go for a 8 foot wide screen

jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

ok what about height?

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 9:54 pm Post subject:

The height takes care of itself due to aspect ratio. Do you plan on using 4:3 or 16:9 wide screen?

jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

with the zenith it is easy to switch back and forth depending on the media, i prefer 16 : 9 for movies but television seems to work better at 4 : 3

jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

i geuss what i am trying to find out is what is the largest screen size i can run (preferably in 16:9) without doing damage to the tubes.
i saw the phrase "pushing the tubes" in another post and i did not really understand the full meaning or what would cause it.

jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

8 foot wide andthe aspect ratio will determine the height i geuss i will start looking for some border. problem solved.
i still dont know what pushing the tubes means though.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 2:12 am Post subject:

Pushing the tubes too hard means you have the contrast cranked up and maybe the brightness too. So you can light up a screen that's too big

jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

makes sense, thanks for the info

atomiccow · Joined: 11 Jul 2009 Posts: 89

I've been tempted lately to add another foot to either side of my G70 screen which is currently 8' wide. It definitley feels like it could handle it. I used to run my 1271 on the same screen and the G70 looks so much clearer it seems to me it could easily handle the extra size because I have accidentally had the image spilling over a foot on either side and squeezing it back down didn't obviously sharpen the picture. I think an 8ft wide screen is a great size though.

When I sold my 1271 I passed it on to a guy who wanted it positioned for with a 12' diagonal image. At 6x8' my screen has a 10' diagonal. And yow. It looked beautiful at my place but in his place it was really soft and had poor contrast but he installed it in an artist loft with light coming in everywhere even at night. In spite of a heavily worn blue tube at my place the image still looked great because I have a totally light controlled room. My walls are a fairly dark green, the ceiling is black and I have a dark print carpet. So if you can create a good environment for your projector like this I think you can make it at least 10' wide. If you are getting any stray light at all or your walls are white, its probably wise to stick with conventional wisdom on the size.
Even the small but bright green light on the computer that runs feeds my G70 affects my image significantly enough I have to cover it.
Front CRT projectors don't even tolerate a single romantic candle burning on a coffee table well.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 3:53 am Post subject:

No other lights in the room at all. That's the way I like it

jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

my pj is in my basement you have no idea what real darkness is. the power went out one nite and i did not have a flashlite i LITERALLY could not see my hand in front of my face, it took 10 minutes to find the stairs. i have the room covered with olive drab military parachutes it is like a khaki genie bottle. i hung them 2 feet off the wall so i have a kind of service corridor. i installed several blacklights which dont seem to effect the picture at all as long as they are behind the lenses.

jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

still looking for a (2 if the price is right) pss 70 ceiling mount for my g 70's.

atomiccow · Joined: 11 Jul 2009 Posts: 89

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:46 am Post subject:

Clarence cleared out his closet a couple of years back but he may still have some. Unfortunately he's not into packing and shipping this stuff much anymore.

atomiccow · Joined: 11 Jul 2009 Posts: 89

Spanky Ham · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central

One thing that a lot of people don't realize is that when you don't push the tubes you can get better resolution.