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I want a rad projector for video gaming, movies, TV, computer stuff, etc. I don't know shit about resolution or any of that jazz. I'd like composite, either VGA or DVI and maybe SVideo.

What do you reccomend for an affordable, reasonable solution? DISCUS!

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:12 (twenty years ago)

are you going to be projecting CSS attacks behind 3xc3pt3r?

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:14 (twenty years ago)

http://wizardishungry.com/lol/lightsynth.mov

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:17 (twenty years ago)

http://eskatonia.net/qcblog/quartonian-mixer/quartonian-screenshots/

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:19 (twenty years ago)

http://arawareru.com/zugakousaku/qc_samples/

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:19 (twenty years ago)

i cannot offer any big help, except be real careful if you're buying used, paricularly with used bulb life. new bulb = $$$

also, a projector for video games might not be cost effective, as i think many bulbs top out at 2000 hours.

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)

new bulbs are like $250 right?

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Only at the very low end. Most are ~$350. Here's a price list.

A friend of mine has a DLP projector (I think a Canon) that is great for movies, but he doesn't do any gaming. It's got enough contrast and color depth that I can imagine it would be pretty great though.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:02 (twenty years ago)

CLASSIC :D :D :D :D

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=9709640828&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Which brands are rub?

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

http://www.witchesinprint.com/images/AstralProjection.jpg

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 22:35 (twenty years ago)

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 03:12 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.maland.com/pics/thumbnails/DSC04249.JPG

― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 03:47 (twenty years ago)

omg wtf my house
http://lolrider.com/pj/1068s.JPG

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 21 April 2006 07:43 (twenty years ago)

http://lolrider.com/pj/1069s.JPG

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 21 April 2006 07:43 (twenty years ago)

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 21 April 2006 10:25 (twenty years ago)

why the sad face?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 21 April 2006 10:39 (twenty years ago)

your images be broken

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 21 April 2006 10:41 (twenty years ago)

oh noes. stupid web server is down

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 21 April 2006 10:42 (twenty years ago)

I GOT A BROKEN FACE, UH HUH UH HUH

― teh_kit says 'FACES' (g-kit), Friday, 21 April 2006 10:43 (twenty years ago)

lol?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 21 April 2006 11:06 (twenty years ago)

Which brands are rub?

At a previous job we had several of the Sharp P10s that were ceiling mounted and then some portable Epson PowerLites. Best thing I can say about them is that they worked well and stood up to being kicked around by teachers, students, etc...

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 22:58 (twenty years ago)

http://lolrider.com/newpix/IMG_1170.JPG

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 07:04 (twenty years ago)

i've finally found a decent use of the thing as you can see.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 07:05 (twenty years ago)

that is really cool

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 07:06 (twenty years ago)

:-D

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 07:12 (twenty years ago)

oh man i have to find California Games!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 07:13 (twenty years ago)

: D !!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 07:24 (twenty years ago)

i'm tryng to imagine the size of the FACES on one of those...

― teh_kit has 20 friends (g-kit), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 08:50 (twenty years ago)

this big!
http://lolrider.com/pj/1127s.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 08:53 (twenty years ago)

(yet i still can't shot head)

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 08:54 (twenty years ago)

lol! there are no FACES on glassfloor.

xpost roffle

― teh_kit has 20 friends (g-kit), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 08:55 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

Hey so I've got a projector that I use mostly for watching movies, but I'd really like to watch some World Cup on it. Unfortunately I can't get any channels over 30 to play through the projector. We have cable and it's hooked directly to a VCR then through the VCR to the projector. Channels 2-30 work great, but everything over that looks like no signal.
I tried a different VCR (mine's kinda busted), but I got the same problem.
Any ideas what's going wrong here? ESPN/ESPN2 are channels 38-39. Soooo agonizingly close.

― wmlynch (wlynch), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 03:26 (twenty years ago)

The signal is PAL because only British people care about World Cup. You need a PAL/NTSC projector.

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 03:29 (twenty years ago)

what kind of wire do you use to connect the VCR to the projector?

and also can you watch the world cup channel on a normal TV thorugh the VCR?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 06:36 (twenty years ago)

It's a long rca video cable. The channels above 30 work fine when the VCR is connected to a TV. I thought at first that the signal was getting scrambled in the VCR but I guess not.

― wmlynch (wlynch), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Is the cable feed going straight to the VCR? Or do you have a cable box? There used to be some kind of difference between high channels & low, I think. If you are changing the channel on a cable box and going through a VCR always set to channel 3, then I have no answer. If you are changing the channel through the VCR, then I still have no answer, but the problem makes more sense.

― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 13:49 (twenty years ago)

so this may be a real longshot, but try daisy chaining two VCRs together in front of the projector. And try connecting them with RCA cables and then with Coax. See if either setup makes a difference.

― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I was wrong about the TV. We're feeding the cable directly into the TV and not through the VCR. We don't have a cable box, so this is a direct coaxial feed.
There's a difference in the actual signals for channels above 30?

― wmlynch (wlynch), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 14:53 (twenty years ago)

I have a vague recollection that there was once .. I could be wrong - I remember old VCRs having some weird business going on - but maybe it was a limitation of the hardware at that time.... ?

― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 14:58 (twenty years ago)

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