Posted by Adrian A on 07/17/06 09:19

Sla#s wrote:
> Adrian A wrote:
>> Hot Dog - Jumping Frog - Alberkirkie wrote:
>>> "The Man Whose Head Expanded" <hauntedriver@hotmail.com> wrote in
>>> message news:1152651969.167846.76420@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>>> Ed Chilada wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Last weekend I went to watch Pirates of the Carribean. They put an
>>>>> anti-piracy trailer on...
>>>> It's called "irony".
>>> Buy a home cinema projector , plenty of good models brand new from
>>> 500 quid , 8 foot screen around 100 quid , hey presto a real home
>>> cinema , at half the price a 40 inch plasma/lcd screen which imho
>>> are crap anyhow.
>>
>> I've been thinking of doing exactly that, hopefully I'll find a
>> projector capable of 1920x1080p at a reasonable price.
>
> That's exactly what I'm going to do - keep a small screen for watching
> the news etc and only use the big screen for movies and the likes of
> major sports events.
> I'll connect it to a silent PC Media centre, then I can put in
> whatever format drive wins the Blueray/HDDVD war for considerably
> less than a
> full player. So far I haven't seen an advert for a projector of that
> resolution.
>
> Slatts

I read recently that the HDMI 1.3 standard supports resolutions up to
2560x1440p maybe I should look for one capable of that when the time comes,
especially as I hope to use it with the computer a well.
--
Adrian

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