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Musical Rush

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Damn Is all I have to say about that projector . If you know somebody with an x-rite i 1 display calibrator..you can calibrate those bad boys
 
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ndrwrld

ndrwrld

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hey Snuffy, what's the size of your projection on that wall ? looks massive !
mine is 82 inches corner to corner , and i'm sitting 9 feet from it.
still rocking this ...bought it off Joshua Reid 3 years ago...still works great, although seeing how it had 200 hours when he sold it, and the bulb's supposed to hold only about 2000 hours, i may be treading on thin ice with it.
proper bulb replacement is 50 bucks US.
fuck...new projectors are super expensive.
 
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Snuffy

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It's 120 diagonally and I'm sitting about 16 feet away. It's funny how I wrote that 4k is useless at the beginning of this thread. With a projector, you can reach the limits of 1080p really quickly and I found myself making the projection smaller. What I'm surprised about is how bright these things are. I thought I'd have to get a screen, but I have a beige wall and white still looks like vibrant white.

It was on sale for $599 on Boxing Day, but I missed it by one day so picked it up for $799. After three weeks of searching, I didn't care anymore. It's the Epson 2030.
 
ndrwrld

ndrwrld

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mine is a little old school, no HDMI, but still rocks a great crisp view in 720p. playing a bluray on the p3 on my wall gives me a better picture than my 42 inch plasma.:cool:
my wall is an off white, so that helps.
 
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OwenThomas

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Musical Rush said:
I'm into photography so I do my editing on the Asus PA249Q , I calibrate it every 3 weeks with the x-rite i1 pro.. it makes things look real pretty :)
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Nice! For me it's the workspace that makes the difference. There're 1080ish monitors that are visually "better" than mine at the same price point ($500cdn) but why am I going to edit photos and video to look great on a visually cutting edge screen when %98 of clients print photos at walmart or view video and photos via compressed formats online. These never look the exactly way I intend for the end viewer. Most people view stuff online through thier TVs/monitors with settings jacked to max and makes things look wacky and way off the original anyway.

I love being able to edit a video at full 1080 and still have massive room for timeline, media bins, effect panel and same with photos. Obviously I can't edit a phot a full resolution while viewing at full screen but it's pretty damn close and far better than a "normal" monitor.

I met a professional TV broadcast audio mixer once who explained to me why his final mix is adjusted with a regular TV speakers. If majority of consumers are using regular TVs, they're not going to get the benefits of a 5.1 dolby digital level of mix. Why not make it sound the best on what they're probably using?
 
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OwenThomas

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To the point that 4k is a waste for me for TV, if I watch this video at 8 feet away and flip between 1080 and 4k, I can't tell the difference on my 28" screen for resulution/sharpness. On a 50 inch? Maybe at the same distance of 8 feet but barely at a normal viewing distance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh88exSsQ-g


For the size and distance that Snuffy is viewing his projector, you'd for sure be able to tell the difference but it'll still be great! 4k content isn't really produced on a mass scale right now becasue of hardware and delivery issues.
 
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Snuffy

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ndrwrld said:
mine is a little old school, no HDMI, but still rocks a great crisp view in 720p. playing a bluray on the p3 on my wall gives me a better picture than my 42 inch plasma.:cool:
my wall is an off white, so that helps.
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I almost got the 750 HD because it was on sale, but they were out of stock on that one too, lol. I jumped for joy when I went to another store and they actually had the 2030.

The Staples cashier called me "desperate".
 
praktik

praktik

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Ya projectors and 65"-70"+ screens benefit the most from 4k.

Laser projectors also look awesome but you could buy a new luxury sedan off the lot or an awesome laser projector, the choice is yours
 
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Musical Rush

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but why am I going to edit photos and video to look great on a visually cutting edge screen when %98 of clients print photos at walmart
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I do my own printing and framing on good quality paper ( learning canvas ) This is why I calibrate so often, for the soft proofing in photoshop. I have the 17inch canon ipf 5100, ,it's a bit dated but I got it brand new through a friend a year ago. Everything was still wrapped up only paid $1400 for it. In the stores they're close to $3000. Inks are fucking expensive tho it holds 12 colours, at staples they're $130 each,,I get mine on ebay from a person in Italy for $100. ( shipping included)
 
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Musical Rush

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Yeah true about people getting our hard work printed onto cheap shit , then they come back complaining asking why it didn't look the same as on screen?

(Well the photo wasn't soft proof to the shitty Kodak paper that Walmart uses ) lol

In your case your videos to. By not watching the video the way it was meant to be watched.
 
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OwenThomas

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Musical Rush said:
I do my own printing and framing on good quality paper ( learning canvas ) This is why I calibrate so often, for the soft proofing in photoshop. I have the 17inch canon ipf 5100, ,it's a bit dated but I got it brand new through a friend a year ago. Everything was still wrapped up only paid $1400 for it. In the stores they're close to $3000. Inks are fucking expensive tho it holds 12 colours, at staples they're $130 each,,I get mine on ebay from a person in Italy for $100. ( shipping included)
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Is it bad I still watch hockey on an SD big-back TV? If all 4-5 of us are in close it still looks okay...plus it's a bit of nostalgia.
 
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Bernnie Federko

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Suggestions for a new TV all in about a thousand bucks?

(this afternoon the 51" Samsung plasma D8000 from 5 years ago literally went black, popped, then started shooting sparks that arc'd like something out of Nikola Tesla's lab...
 
praktik

praktik

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lobo said:
4K Blu-ray has already lost to streaming

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" And of course, no matter how good a 4K stream looks, it'll never hold up to the enormously high bitrates of a 4K Blu-ray."

But one can forsee the day when we are dealing with connections speeds in the hundreds of MBPs and improvements all along the streaming signal path (and improvements in their compression techniques) when no one will ever need physical media for anything anymore.

When I do go 4k+HDR in a TV I will be sure to grab one of these players, otherwise I won't really be getting the best image quality I can achieve.

10-20 years from now? Might be a different story
 
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lobo

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I tend to agree praktik.

Our bandwidth is definitely going to increase just like it has over the last 15 years. Remember the days of dial-up and cringing at the thought of downloading MP3s? Along came DSL & cable modems and that helped immensely with Napster! lol

I'll also be getting one of those 4K+HDR players but first I need to upgrade my TV and a/v receiver.

Lobo
 
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Musical Rush

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Now that I record everything so I can skip the commercials can Ff all the time shorten the life of the TV since you're forcing things to go faster?
 
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