It sounds like it was a lot of fun. I am glad that it works for you. Your results are better
than what I have heard in real use. It is encurgeing to know someone with it working. Thanks for
your update.
William
--- michael hast <evylrobot19@cox.net> wrote:
>
> >>>>> I know that this is late but when you are done post your results. I
> >>>>> am very interested in doing
> >>>>> the same thing. I one problem that I have with the projector is
> >>>>> that it does not project a good
> >>>>> picture with sun light and bright lights. Good luck.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> William
> >>>>>
> Well, I'm now in a position to give some results on my projector
> project. No regrets. There's more that we need to do to get it
> perfect, but it's now close. I bought an Optoma HD72, which is a
> native-WXGA resolution projector. It has a 5000:1 maximum contrast
> ratio, 1400-ANSI Lumen light rating, and the resolution will support
> 720p natively, and it has a slew of input source options. Currently, we
> are using an old RCA VCR as our TV tuner (because we are ghetto), but
> soon that will be replaced with a HTPC. We have been enjoying many
> DVD's and Laserdisks on this screen as well as the three or four TV
> shows that we ever catch. For our screen, we decided to go with DIY
> Theater's "Low-Contrast White Platinum" screen paint. If you are
> interested in hearing the caveats of painting a screen, please email me
> off-list and I'll give you the gory details. The end results are
> wonderful, though. Even in daylight, the picture is quite viewable, but
> we have curtains over the sliding door on the perpendicular wall that
> help a lot. When we were testing the projector on a flat, white wall,
> it looked good as long as it was completely dark. With the paint up,
> however, we can enjoy it even with lights on in the adjoining room and a
> lamp on in the room with us. I threw a test drive in my PC and plugged
> it in via a DVI-D cable, and installed Sabayon Linux on it. I was
> thrilled at how nice it looked playing DVD's like that. I did not play
> with it much, but I could not get the resolution in Sabayon adjusted to
> the full 1280x768. It defaulted to 1280x720, which worked fine for
> watching widescreen, but would be frustrating when watching the old 4:3
> aspect ratio. Also, the projector auto-configures to an input source,
> and the delay on it caused some problems while booting.
> So, here's the question portion of this email: Where do I set the
> resolution in a Gentoo-based distro, such as Sabayon? Also, is there a
> way that you can set the computer to default to a video output that it
> doesn't necessarily see a device on at boot-up so that it makes it a
> little easier to get the old HTPC talking nicely to the projector? Thanks!
>
> --Michael
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