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ecrabb
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Joined: 13 Mar 2006
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Location: Utah
TV/Projector: JVC RS40, Epson 5010
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| Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| Spanky Ham wrote: | | After driving up 41 to Craig's place and seeing those tall high rises, I just thought it must have been fun getting that Ampro in your apt. |
It was probably a hell of a lot easier getting the Ampro into his apartment than it was getting the G70 into my old basement. An elevator, a two-wheel cart, and no stairs would be pretty cakey compared to most suburban residential basements!
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veelangs
Joined: 22 Oct 2014
Posts: 59
Location: Chicago
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| Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 4:03 am Post subject: |
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| Spanky Ham wrote: | After driving up 41 to Craig's place and seeing those tall high rises, I just thought it must have been fun getting that Ampro in your apt.
Also, I thought how neat it might have been if you were up above watching your CRT while Curt, Craig and I were down below eating dinner.  |
Haha well if y'all are in Chicago you're more than welcome to come check it out and get the astigmatism and convergence perfect 
And yeah it wasn't terribly hard, it weighs what? 100 lbs? I can pick it up myself if I need to buy a flatbed was much more convenient haha
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veelangs
Joined: 22 Oct 2014
Posts: 59
Location: Chicago
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| Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 4:05 am Post subject: |
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| ecrabb wrote: | | Spanky Ham wrote: | | After driving up 41 to Craig's place and seeing those tall high rises, I just thought it must have been fun getting that Ampro in your apt. |
It was probably a hell of a lot easier getting the Ampro into his apartment than it was getting the G70 into my old basement. An elevator, a two-wheel cart, and no stairs would be pretty cakey compared to most suburban residential basements!
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Haha exactly from my car to the flatbed to the elevator
Only thing challenging was explaining to all the passerbys that yes this is a real projector haha
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Spanky Ham
Joined: 22 Mar 2006
Posts: 5643
Location: Comedy Central
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| Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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Craig is just north of you probably not to far. It seems like he was only a ten minute drive from Wrigley.
Separately, Craig and Cliff have talked about having a meet. If one happens, then I will try to make it.
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mc86
Joined: 20 Sep 2008
Posts: 767
Location: pittsburgh, pa
TV/Projector: ECP 4500 (Vidikron box), ECP4500+, wanting 07MS/07MTS, evaluating pc soft-blend
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| Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 4:26 am Post subject: |
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Ok, so last night I got around to setting up the BRP-83 after it came back from Oppo over a week ago. To the OPs request, here are a few shots from my "low budget" CRT setup. The camera is nothing special and makes the images look worse than they do to the eye. Anyway, I'd guess a newbie could:
1) Get someone to PAY him/her to take away their ECP
2) Get a HDF2 or 3 for ~$50
3) Use any simple BR player...
End result: Decent 1080i 80" image from a free projector as viewed from about 13ft in a dark room.
My particular video path is:
Oppo BRP-83 outputing 1080i over HDMI
Outlaw Audio 970 Processor to switch sources (the HDMI is DVI in/out)
HDF3 + GammaX
DVDO iScanHD (analog passthrough mode)
50 foot RGBHV cable
ECP 4500+
Screen is a plain-jane SharpVision, 80"W screen.
I touched the conversion, only bumping the entire red grid up and over two taps of the remote and the entire blue grid four taps up...total of 30sec tweak from the couch. I set the timing and let the camera chose the aperture...I forgot to set the white balance on the last and didn't monkey with it otherwise. The camera was about 9ft from the screen and I cutoff the left edge in the image.
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| C3PO looks washed out to me in the photo and the lights seemed to blare, but this is the gammax washing out lights a bit in order for me to avoid crushing everything in the black AND the camera isn't weighting the exposure correctly or something else, per |
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