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mx83toy
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I had an InFocus LP420 DLP for my first machine and a couple of Sony and Mitsubishi LCD's (Last one was 3x LCD 1.3"!!) Then Discovered CRT!!! kinda happened in reverse for me  Every review i read on projectors was " as close to a CRT " "contrast comparable to CRT" I thought dam!!! I want a CRT!!!
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banzairun
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Location: NJ
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My first projector was a sharpvision.. I forget the model, but it was a second generation single-panel unit. I didn't really enjoy watching movies on it at all though -- I preferred my Sony PVM-2530 -- but it was great for N64 games.
Soon after that I picked up a Barco Data 600 in early 1998 for about $800 I think.. and then an NEC line doubler for watching laserdiscs. I think I sold the 600 on ebay a year or so later for over $1k (with a Stewart screen), right after I paid $1400 for a Barco Graphics 801s on ebay, which was sort of a deal at the time as the guy was in KS and wouldn't ship. Of course I really wanted a 1208, but they were still usually going for $5-7k at the time, and the guy that seemingly cornered the market on them was that dude that eventually started up "Theater Automation Wow", rebranding new E-homes for sale.. Remember his forums? I remember checking them about as much as I did AVS at the time.
I bought a first-gen Panasonic DVD player around that time as well, but it took me months to prefer DVD over LD! ..it took them a couple years before they figured out how to encode DVDs properly.
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Ile
Joined: 09 Mar 2006
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Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
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Barco Graphics 500 in 2003 and few weeks later I bought ecp with bad power supply to get mint tubes for Barco.
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CasetheCorvetteman
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Location: Australia
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Banzairun, was the Panasonic an A350 or A330?
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opv
Joined: 18 May 2010
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Location: Emek Hefer,Israel
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My first projector was a Hitachi PJTX100 LCD projector with practically no shadow details, which was before the dynamic Iris models in 2003 I think.
I suffered for almost a year before I went to the dark side with a great BG808s.
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ElTopo
Joined: 07 Nov 2006
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I tell you what's my actual one: BR909 !
Started with Barco 801s, Barco 708, Cine7, 808, Cine8, Marquee 9500LC Ultra and then finally moved to the TOP
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Das444
Joined: 22 Dec 2006
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Hi,
2002 $4800.00 for a Sony VPL-VW11HT. 2003 $300.00 for a Sony 1252. 2009 $500.00 Nec xg 1350. 2013 Free Sony g70.
Sony VPL-VW11HT long gone, still using the Sony 1252 and the 1350 and getting ready to install the G70.
Dan
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digitalayon
Joined: 02 Mar 2009
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| fuchs wrote: | hehe... my first one (somewhere in the '90s, when I was a teenager) was a wooden case with an ordinary small colour TV in it, and a large lens to project on a silver curved screen. The image was absolutely craptastic! I think the resolution was less than 200 lines. I projected overhead from my bed and watched MTV music videos on it. It did, however, get me hooked on the "big screen" projection-thing.
Sadly, I don't have any pictures of the thing. |
thx for doing us the favor of not having any pictures!!  I remember guys in college all around me buying those 10 dollar lens and plans kits. One of them actually looked good out of the 40 plus that I saw. It was a sony trinitron and it had a flatter screen and he swapped two cables on the inside of the unit to invert the picture so he did not have to turn it upside down.
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Nashou66
Joined: 12 Jan 2007
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Location: West Seneca NY
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dvh99
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Location: nederland
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Decibel
Joined: 31 May 2007
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Location: Roma - Italia
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ECP 3100 ---> BG808 (modified to 808s, then modified LC) ---> Runco DTV1100 ---> 
Yes, the Runco is not my last pj
Now I have a BG1209s
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the big E
Joined: 20 Apr 2013
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Location: speedwell Tn.
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i have one almost like yours and still have it(don't use it much as i ain't a fan of lcd)
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Spanky Ham
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I was all about the digital, but never bought one. I considered CRT, but was to scared of it. A writer for Stereophile GHT made it sound so complicated that I said not for me. I started reading on AVS and finally took the plunge via the Gov in '2004. I bought a couple of NEC PGs. I have bought a handful of other CRTs over the years and now have a G90 and a G70. I am thinking I will probably run the G90 till it dies then go digital.
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the big E
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| Spanky Ham wrote: | | I was all about the digital, but never bought one. I considered CRT, but was to scared of it. A writer for Stereophile GHT made it sound so complicated that I said not for me. I started reading on AVS and finally took the plunge via the Gov in '2004. I bought a couple of NEC PGs. I have bought a handful of other CRTs over the years and now have a G90 and a G70. I am thinking I will probably run the G90 till it dies then go digital. |
Keep a crt for a back up unit or in case you don't like the digital projector(I am going from a digital to a crt)
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Spanky Ham
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I could see the former happening, but I am not sure I would keep one lying around (although I have done just that with the Sonys).
As for the latter, I know full well what a digital looks like. I would probably grab a JVC and I have seen them multiple times.
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mc86
Joined: 20 Sep 2008
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Location: pittsburgh, pa
TV/Projector: ECP 4500 (Vidikron box), ECP4500+, wanting 07MS/07MTS, evaluating pc soft-blend
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I know someone who used a TV-projection setup for an interesting Halloween project. He videotaped his head making crazy faces (had a black sheet over his shoulder so it was just a head an neck) and wailing noises. He then shot the image onto some sort of manikin head for what was a nifty effect. I didn't see it, but could kind of imagine. An older version of the giant eyeball someone posted here a year or so ago.
A healthkit CRT -- awesome.
Matt
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banzairun
Joined: 10 Jul 2006
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Location: NJ
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| CasetheCorvetteman wrote: | | Banzairun, was the Panasonic an A350 or A330? |
It was the A330.. I kept it until 2000 when everybody into CRT was super hot on those Skyworth progressive players that were region-free with a Faroudja chipset and an HD15 output. Had to import them from Hong Kong but even after shipping I think they were <$300...not the greatest build quality, but the region-coded Denon player with the same Faroudja chipset at the time was 5x the Skyworth's price and only had component output.
That was basically the best player for the money until the Oppos came around and more useful scalers became cheap.
It never felt like it at the time.. but looking back, the world around CRT seriously evolved every couple years. Everybody completely changed their source chain a good 4-5 times, while the projectors always stayed the same..
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CasetheCorvetteman
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I had the A350 when it first come out, there were only 4 or 5 movies on DVD at the time!! Connected to a Panasonic GAOO TX-47WG25-H
Got the same A350 still, and also got an A330 someone gave me for doing some electricsl work at their home after floods a couple years ago.
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banzairun
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Yeah I only had a couple discs for a while as well.
I think "Planetary Traveler" was the first disc I had.. that strange CGI film was popular as a demo disc at the time.
My 330 was stolen from storage, along with my LD-W1. I don't miss the 330.
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AFryia
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VPH-G70Q my one and only!
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