Return of the King + Projector
 

= heaven.

We've had our projector for a couple of months, but so far had just used it to watch a few hockey games. Last night we watched ROTK on it, and DAMN was it nifty.

What kind of projector have you got? We've been looking into buying one for awhile, and links or advice?

an Infocus X1 (which I think has been replaced by the X2). about $1000.

it's a pretty basic, low-end projector that fit the bill for us.

so what does your screen size effectively work out to? and I assume the image quality is solid?

My wife will bring one home from work occassionally, and it is awesome to watch movies on. I dunno, though, about owning one at home as Im not sure how long the life expectancy is supposed to be with regular usage. I hear some of the replacement parts, the bulb especially, are very expensive.

Most bulbs should be good for 3000 or 4000 hours of viewing, so when you consider it, $200 or $300 for a replacement bulb isn't that expensive.

right. and we basically are using it for the occasional movie or hockey game. It'll take a while to burn through it the way we use it.

Cthomer - we actually don't have the screen yet. putting it just on a bare red wall, which looked surprisingly decent (just a bit on the red side). We wanted to wait until our furniture came in (Tuesday, after a nearly 3 month wait) and get the location of the projector finalized before ordering the screen. the size of the screen depends greatly on how far back the projector is.

there's a good vendor here http://www.avscience.com/
I called and talked to someone there (Jason, who specializes in that) who is helping us pick out the right screen (size, quality, etc).

dola, image quality is "good". I wouldn't say amazing, but, for the size of the picture, it definitely "wowed" us.
I do expect that to improve when we finally get a screen.

Understood, but that was why I aksed. What size/distance have you been watching it at now - and how is the image quality?

it's a 20 foot room, and the projector is at the very back. I'm just eyballing the wall, but I'd say it's about a 6x8 image - which is probably a bit TOO big (we sit about 15' from the wall). The screen is probably going to be a foot or two in (mounted from ceiling), so that should make it a bit smaller.

image quality is "good". I'm definitely not an audio/videophile though - people with a higher quality expectation may not agree with me.