Front Projection Home Cinema
March 5th, 2008 — Digital Front Projection
Make an IPod Video Projector - video powered by Metacafe
Here is a neat idea for a Do It Yourself mini projector. Made out of cardboard, mirror and a lens, this box will turn your iPod into a self-powered video projector.
It won’t compete with your 1500 lumen HDTV light cannon, but it looks like a fun project. Get the detailed directions over at instructables.
January 15th, 2008 — Digital Front Projection
The Belkin FlyWire system announced at CES 2008 will help solve one of the most difficult challenges in setting up a front projection home theater system.
Typically, home theater components like the receiver, cable box, and DVD player are located in a cabinet or rack in the front or side of your media room. The problem has been to run an HDMI cable from the equipment rack up and over to the ceiling-mounted projector. That usually means lots of work fishing the cables through walls or an ugly, black cable snake tacked to the wall.
It looks like the Belkin FlyWire system will help simplify getting the video signal over to your projector. It is relatively small, only 4 inches square by 1 inch thick, so it will fit discreetly in the space above a ceiling-mounted projector. You will, however, need to plug the FlyWire receiver into AC power, perhaps using the same ceiling receptacle that your projector is plugged into.
The Belkin Flywire transmitter includes a six-input, remote controlled HDMI switcher. Belkin says that the FlyWire system can transmit a 1080p signal up to 100 feet. Available sometime in the summer of 2008 for between $499 and $599.
August 2nd, 2007 — Digital Front Projection
Perhaps the only major down side of a front projection home theater is that the screen washes out if there is any ambient light at all in the room. This means that you are limited to placing them in rooms where you can have total light control. In my opinion, movies are meant to be viewed in a darkened room anyway so normally that arrangement works out OK.
August 1st, 2007 — Digital Front Projection
This is an incredible bargain for anyone looking for a solid performing 480p front projector to play DVDs or watch HDTV. You can buy a refurbished Infocus ScreenPlay SP4805 projector with a 90 day warranty through the InFocus Website for only $325.
July 15th, 2007 — Digital Front Projection
1883 Projection Home Theater Concept
July 15th, 2007 — Digital Front Projection
“a Punch cartoon of 1879. It shows something that the cartoonist labeled Edison’s telephonoscope. It claimed to transmit light as well as sound. We see Edison’s telephonoscope (imagined, of course) opening up a video window above the bedroom mantelpiece of a comfortable Victorian villa. The father and mother in comfortable English suburbia are teleconferencing with their children in Sri Lanka. “
July 13th, 2007 — Digital Front Projection
I came upon this video demonstrating the “world’s smallest” projector being shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. Continue reading →
July 12th, 2007 — Digital Front Projection
Do you ever wish you had the ultimate HDTV projector? Well, if you have a room that holds several hundred people and a spare $75,000 laying around then you might consider the Panasonic PT-DW10000U.