On Friday 04 November 2005 08:18 pm, Michael Tiller wrote: > At work we just got a $700 computer projector that looks fantastic. I > hooked my laptop up to it while watching a widescreen DVD and it even seems > to support the widescreen format quite nicely. > > So, I'm thinking about getting one of these for my basement. My plan would > be to mount it on the ceiling and project it against a wall. I'd also like > to hook a very simple MythTV frontend up to it. My plan would be to have > only a DVD reader, small hardrive (if necessary), network and video card in > it (i.e. no tuner cards and no direct live TV feed to the projector...only > live TV from a backend over the network).
http://www.mythtv.org/basement/6-Projector/1-screen_mounted.jpg That's my production mythtv setup. Panasonic PT-AE700U projector, homemade screen. > Here are a few questions: > > 1) Any comments on why this might be a bad idea? :-) It sure looks > attractive to me. The biggest negative is that it's really not the best use of bulb life to be doing stuff like listening to music for hours. > 2) Any special issues with video cards? When I hooked my laptop up the > projector we have at work, it seemed like my laptop was putting out a > special resolution on the output port and that the projector was matching > it. The widescreen version looked great. Will all video cards+X.conf be > able to provide the optimal widescreen resolution or is this a special > feature to look for? Most digital projectors these days have vga and hdmi/dvi input, and fairly standard resolutions. I've had no problems displaying 1280x720 on mine. > 4) I've got a fairly nice 5.1 receiver plus speakers. Anything special I > need to hook that up to a computer? If I play a DVD, will it send a > pro-logic encoded signal over normal "line out" or do I need to have a > sound card that can split it up locally and then send out all the signals > separately? I may just skip the 5.1 for now use simulated surround sound. I don't do DVD playback on mine (still prefer to use a standalone dvd changer), but you can pass through the audio with a digital out.. Isaac
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