Digitals are good for something.....

Tom.W · 27-07-2009, 7:31 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfHGV...layer_embedded

Tom.W · 27-07-2009, 6:05 PM

OK one more......

555 KUBIK - How it would be, if a house was dreaming // Current

Barcoing Mad · 28-07-2009, 9:27 AM

It'll be interesting when high brightness LED PJs become dirt cheap - it'll be a new form of graffiti.
Buildings will become the canvas for everything from street art to political protest. The police will be clambering up buildings to find the projector with the wireless link.

Political speeches will be interrupted, because a huge arrow with the word 'idiot' (or worse/better) has appeared above the podium. Or images of tar filled lungs on the side of tobacco company HQ's.
A short documentary of drive by shootings at the next NRA gathering...

Pirate cinema. There will be laws against it. Projector ownership will be illegal. We shall have to go underground. CRT and digital owners will become brothers. But then there'll be enormous in-fighting and after the first nuclear apocalyse, huge CRT/laser hybrids will evolve and....

Chris Frost · 28-07-2009, 10:49 AM

LMAO at Barcoing Mad. Particularly like the big pointy arrow idea.Ha ha ha

Tom.W - good find. Some creative thinking went in to that. All the way through though I was waiting for a bloke to come out of the balcony doors and shout

"Oi! Turn that f**king light off. The kids are in bed."

Roland had a belting picture a few years back. He was using the hot air from a digital to defrost a car windscreen. Classic.

Nick Beecham · 28-07-2009, 12:24 PM

What difference a few years make.

I remember that picture. Roland was making the point about how noisy digitals were compared with CRT. Now the opposite is true.

Best wishes
Nick

Paul D · 28-07-2009, 6:15 PM

I thought the same as Chris when i saw the thread title.
I remember Roland defrosting the car with a little digital. (Sanyo?)

Nick, think Roly was showing how much hot air they used to kick out.

BTW Roly, i'm still waiting for you to come back and finish my quiet fan mod for my BD808s! LOL

Tom.W · 28-07-2009, 8:14 PM

3D projection....

YouTube - 3D projection!

Tom.W · 28-07-2009, 8:26 PM

YouTube - Projection on buildings - Live performance

Mad Mr H · 06-08-2009, 1:06 AM

There was a time when the CRT MOD kept updating the FAQ.

Check the FAQ "Just for fun section"....there you will find those pictures.......

Or for the lazy

For those who missed it

There are a few other threads in the "Just for fun section"

olpers101 · 06-08-2009, 6:33 AM

Very nice videos. Can anyone tell me how these images appear on the building???

Barcoing Mad · 06-08-2009, 9:18 AM

Sadly that CRT mod screwed things up for himself.

Mad Mr H · 06-08-2009, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Barcoing Mad

Sadly that CRT mod screwed things up for himself.

Not at all, Others managed that for him, Which was a shame but I feel more of a loss to others.........

Only two people have all the facts and with the greatest of respect for you and I really do mean this without meaning or wanting to cause offence, You are not one of those two.......

You still got your digital ??? and the Quee(s) ???

Barcoing Mad · 06-08-2009, 1:48 PM

It's a hot and sticky day, so I'm feeling bitchy.

Still got the digital. Still got the Quees. The latter will be a winter time project.

I like the 750 - but I'm amazed that reveiwers didn't pick up on a few obvious faults with respect to motion handling. Maybe peole should periodically sit in front of a good CRT monitor just to remind themselves how things can look!

Mad Mr H · 06-08-2009, 7:55 PM

I think many reviews are not as critical as they could be for digital Pj's.

But its the current market and so earns advert money..........

If you ONLY considered picture quality which would you pick? That could be overall or for different areas?

I have not seen the 750, I do prefer the 1209s over the 9500's - Both stock the 1209s has the better detail and I think the 9500 has a low level blue control issue - Thats being picky, They are both excellent PJ's.

Barcoing Mad · 07-08-2009, 11:07 AM

Overall I would pick two Cine9s and stack them. I'd have hush boxes in a room behind a rear projection screen, plus a full-time geek to maintain them. I'd also demand 75Hz/72Hz refresh.

Second choice is the HD750. It ticks a lot of boxes. My only criticism is that whereas a CRT PJ shows each field in sequence with no memory effects between fields - film is reproduced as it should be (judder and all), the 750 mushes things a bit, be it subtle smearing or an occasional loss of bit depth during pans. A lot of the time it's unimportant - the camera swings, and the smearing is akin to the natural effect of our own eyes. But things get odd when your eyes latch onto a background detail and track it - then subconsciously we expect the thing to jump into sharp relief.

However, more often than not, I find myself enjoying the picture, and (I'm afraid) I have no other cirticism of the 750. And given an LED lamp, and the ability to process and address the pixel array faster (I don't want frame interpolation - just the array ready to accept the next frame as it is!) I think CRT will be finally outperformed on all fronts.

Mad Mr H · 08-08-2009, 7:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Barcoing Mad

Overall I would pick two Cine9s and stack them. I'd have hush boxes in a room behind a rear projection screen, plus a full-time geek to maintain them. I'd also demand 75Hz/72Hz refresh.

Like your style

. I tick four of those six boxes, I thinkthat IS the ultimate system but I cant do rear projection for lck of space and went the blend route......

Overall I would pick two Cine9s

and stack them.

I'd have hush boxes

in a room behind a rear projection screen

,
plus a full-time geek to maintain them.

I'd also demand 75Hz/72Hz refresh.

Pulse1 · 08-08-2009, 9:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Barcoing Mad

My only criticism is that whereas a CRT PJ shows each field in sequence with no memory effects between fields - film is reproduced as it should be (judder and all), the 750 mushes things a bit, be it subtle smearing or an occasional loss of bit depth during pans. A lot of the time it's unimportant - the camera swings, and the smearing is akin to the natural effect of our own eyes. But things get odd when your eyes latch onto a background detail and track it - then subconsciously we expect the thing to jump into sharp relief.

Are you talking about 1080P/24 Blu rays or upscaled SD or everything ?

Chris Frost · 08-08-2009, 9:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Barcoing Mad

My only criticism is that... the 750 mushes things a bit, be it subtle smearing or an occasional loss of bit depth during pans.

(I want) the ability to process and address the pixel array faster

DLP is better in this respect. The rub is that good 3 chip 1080 DLP is so much more money than 3 chip DiLA, but once you have seen it then you know why.

They're all still digital though.

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Originally Posted by Barcoing Mad;10098222I

...I'm amazed that reveiwers didn't pick up on a few obvious faults with respect to motion handling. Maybe peole should periodically sit in front of a good CRT monitor just to remind themselves how things can look!

Good point.

I'm constantly amazed at the appalling picture that people accept from LCD TVs. People are buying brand new TVs and getting worse picture quality than from the telly it is replacing. Madness.

Barcoing Mad · 10-08-2009, 2:27 PM

Pulse - The video scaling by the projector is good, whatever the source.

To my eyes however, a 1080p 24Hz source maintains crispness better than a 1080i50Hz video source. But the motion smear is generic - it's a function of the pixel array and its electronics, not the scaler feeding it. (Broadcast SD has intrinsic artefacts an order worse than anything the PJ can throw up)

Chris - yes.