now, his entire dorm room wall is a TV screen...

he spent 2 Gs on this awsome professional presentation level projector, and hooked it up to his THX speaker system.

i just played GT3 and tokyo extreme racing zero on it,
and, dayanm! it was some experience!

ooooooh.... the possibilities...
- video games
- movies
- computer monitor
- school presentation
- life size porn stars

 

Depending on which unit he got 2k is a smoking deal.
I traded my CRT projection in on a Runco DLP. Cost was $8100.00!!
The scarry thing is, with the trade in on the Vidikron, I was up a fair bit of cash

Big screen is the only way to go

 

I am jealous

 

Gee, I feel like the poor kid on the block. All I've got is a 60" Mitsubishi.

 

My wife has a Compaq MP1400 she uses for her seminars. I guess I could use it for watching dvd's, or tv. Can I?

 

I took a look at the specs of that unit, and It apears the answer is no.

It only has a VGA input, you would need either composite, or S-Video.

I'm not aware of any adpaters to make this work, but doesn't mean I'm right

 

while at her seminars I think she runs a vhs machine thru it as a part of her presentation...... along with running it thru her lap top. I dunno kinda out of the loop on these things, I would ask her but then that would mean she is smarter than me I like having all the answers

 

Well if she is running it with a VCR, then there is your answer. It must have atleast a RCA video in. Though I didn't see it in the specs, I can't figure how it work otherwise. If thats the case, fire that puppy up. Either use a white wall, Preferably a screen if she has one, or worst case, stretch a white bedsheet up, with out any wrinkles. Load up the Matrix or something like that and have fun!!!

 

I think you can get RGB to VGA adapters which would let you run a DVD player into it. You might take a look on the AV Science Forum and do some quick searching to see. The other option would be to use a PC with a DVD-ROM in it. The board I posted the link to has an entire forum dedicated to home theater PCs.

 

LCD projectors are actually quite cheap these days. I originally set up my little home cinema with one to try how good they work but are about to replace it with a decent DLP unit and an upgraded screen.
Projectors are fun .
With the advent of DVD they really make sense.
Note the black/red theme even in my home cinema - for love of my black/red S2000 of course:
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