Thanks! This house had a nice room set up already but I had to update the components. The old projector was 1080 bulb type and was quite dim even in a dark theater room with literally no ambient light. This new laser unit is 3000 lumens and is quite stunning actually. I was blown away when i got it set up and turned on.
You can spend $25,000 on a new projector, easily. However, I went for the Optoma UHZ65. It’s 4k laser and 3000 lumens with 20,000 hour light source life. They are “only” $5,000 list but you can find deals.
Oh, absolutely. I'm not going to spend anything near that, I just want an upgrade to what I've got. I was looking at the LG HU-80k, which is supposed to be phenomenal when it comes out the end of this month. I just don't know that it's worth the expenditure when I have such a small room. My orientation has to be the way it is now, across the short axis of the room, and 12 feet is as far as I can reasonably manage to be from the screen. Then I have to consider the projector positioning at that point. It's just all new to me.
I am upgrading from a 42" to a 65" in a few weeks lol My theater room doubles as the living room.
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Swapping to a flat screen led will save you some money especially if you have the screen brightness up on your current set. Not to mention no longer having the screen cropped or black bars with current content. Will be a lot clearer as well with a 1080p set vs a CRT.
To me just the upgrade to 4k makes a difference. Even 1080p content looks a lot better at 55 to 65 inches larger will look even better. I was at my fathers place with a 1080p tv when I have been using a 4k for a couple years and honestly the 1080p looked like pure crap. With 4K content it's even better on really big screens and 3D can be a nice bonus as well for some movies.
http://tab-tv.com/wp-content/uploads/4k-Full-HD-HD-SD.png is a decent comparison of sd to hd to 4k. Zoom in and look at things like corners and lines. Look at the difference in the crispness of the carbon fiber pattern in the headlights, the edges and contrast in the buildings, etc. Do you see the crane in the sd picture? How about the reflection in the bumper? As far as converting the wife take her to a showroom where they have real 4k content of something you have watched before. Find a scene with a lot of depth and pause it then have her get within a three feet of the screen.
Luckily my wife doesn’t care what I buy. She wasn’t happy with the old dim projector so I bought this one. She was very pleased with the upgrade. It would have been an easy sell if I would have had to convince her before I bought.
Thanks.
My wife is pretty much the same way. The only thing she asks is "Do we have the money for it?" I have probably ended up with quite a bit of stuff that way. But the tv ended up being a good price when we got it and the smart tv features like being able to use plex and such without switching remotes/turning something else on made my life a lot easier when we cut cable.
Back some years ago, we decided to replace our old Radio Shack Mach II speakers. We went out to Circuit City (I think) and while she was looking at computer stuff, I went in to listen to speakers. Our "budget" as to what she said when we drove to CC kind of got blown up. When she finally came in to listen tot he speakers that I was listening to, she was very impressed with the better sounding, albeit more expensive, speakers. That's what we walked out with. Sadly, they no longer fit in our "entertainment center."
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