Brother bought something similar a few years ago for his training business.
I remember him telling me the bulb costs nearly as much as the projector, so 'free spare bulb' in the linked product sounds good.
Can't comment on the quality of either device, although we had good fun one Christmas playing XBox games through brother's projector.
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>>..or will it compete with items costing ten times as much?>>
Highly unlikely, but it's a very reasonable price.
Some bulbs for expensive projectors of recent years can cost from £200 to £300 or more...:-(
Compare the specifications with some others on offer at, for instance, e-Buyer:
www.ebuyer.com/search?page=1&store=73&cat=20&minprice=200&maxprice=499.99
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In the projector market, you get what you pay for. Note this one is a native 800x600 not HD despite what it says.
This all depends on what you want to use it for. If its for meetings, to display gazillions of gaudy power point displays, that's fine.
If you want to watch HD sky big on the wall, forget it.
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In the whole world, Zero, you get what you pay for. And a Roomster gets you from A to B just as effectively as a 535i. If not in so much style.
It will be for watching DVDs. Do they come in HD?
(Stuartli, I can read the specs until the cows come home, but they mean absolutely nothing to me...)
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dont bother keep your money for a nice glass fronted fridge sat next to your crd
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>>..I can read the specs until the cows come home, but they mean absolutely nothing to me...)>>
The larger the figures normally the better...:-)
With regard to high definition disks, it's Blu-Ray and not DVDs, that serve this purpose (so you'll probably have to add a Blu-Ray player or stick a £50 Blu-Ray ROM drive in your computer system and link it by cable to the projector!)
Hardly worth the bother, especially as you will also have to get a screen.
My club has an expensive projector and 6ft wide screen and football, for example, is stunning, but the bulbs cost £300 plus and don't last long; that's why three TVs are also available...:-)
Last edited by: Stuartli on Tue 2 Nov 10 at 12:01
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>>My club has an expensive projector and 6ft wide screen and football, for example, is stunning, but the bulbs cost £300 plus and don't last long; that's why three TVs are also available...:-)>>
Further to this, the current system is being scrapped and a new projector being purchased (taking into account the cost of a new bulb it worked out very reasonably at around £350 to £400).
Before Zero scoffs, the projector is coming from a North West area specialist on the Fylde Coast and the particular model was chosen by my best mate, who spent all his working life in the audio/video retail environment.
Even he is surprised by how much the modern projectors have come down in price whilst offering superior performance. It's full HD as well, which is to enable members who are Manchester United and Liverpool supporters see their team's defeats in even greater detail...:-)))
Last edited by: Stuartli on Wed 8 Jun 11 at 15:34
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>> It will be for watching DVDs. Do they come in HD?
Don't expect the projected quality to be brilliant. Be prepared to turn the lights down. Don't sit too close to the screen. Be prepared to spend hours fiddling about getting the projector in the right place.
IN short, don't bother.
These things have their place, mostly in a purpose cinema room, with the projector permanently mounted and aligned. If you do that you don't spend 180 quid on one.
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Also the speakers will be naff so you'll need a sound system to plug it into too. I'd not bother personally. And that resolution on a big screen will be pretty poor.
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Grief rtj, it comes with built in speakers! They must be rubbish. I had been expecting to attach normal hifi speakers to the system, though perhaps you cannot.
I'm quite happy to fiddle with it, get it right and leave it permanently set up. I have a projector screen. I don't own a TV set at all, this seems like an unobtrusive alternative that doesn't take up the entire room. And I doubt it will show more than two films a month, absolute tops.
So, what would you buy? A look at the Richer Sounds website offers choices from £400 to £2,000. (Allegedly otherwise marketed at £600 and £3,500.) Their over-enthusiasm for their own products makes the low-end ones seem perfect for anything, even a trip to the moon.
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Go to the pictures. Its easier and cheaper.
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The pictures: No champagne, no sofa! Other people, ugh!
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No fiddling with yourself.
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>> The pictures: No champagne, no sofa! Other people, ugh!
www.electriccinema.co.uk/experience.php
Champagne, Sofas, canapes, footstools, and your kind of people.
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I thought about going down this route 6 years ago, before finally settling for a plasma telly.
I guess the technology has moved on a bit since then, but at the time I just didn't fancy having this noisy red hot piece of kit in the middle of the room with wires all over the place. Mounting on the ceiling wasn't really an option also due to the cabling - my ceilings/ floors are concrete.
When I set up a PC projector to try the idea out I discovered that the resultant picture was almost invisible in my south facing lounge during daylight hours so I did briefly consider setting one up in the cellar just to watch films, but didn't bother after buying the plasma. Oh, and I didn't manage to find one at the time that had a genuinely silent cooling fan and cost less than about million pounds.
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>> Grief rtj, it comes with built in speakers!
If I went down a large screen cinema route for the home, it would have to have surround sound. Otherwise no point. The sound is ever so important. Imagine the Lord of the Rings trilogy with crap sound.
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why not? crap film deserves crap soundtrack.
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i can never get the sound right on lord of the rings
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The right sound would be the sound of the door closing as I leave the room
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You surprise me Dave. I would have had you down as something of an expert in ring seeking...
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Should change his name to The Man From Del Monte really.
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Well, despite you naysayers I have just picked up an Acer x110 for £200. And it's fantastic. Maybe it's because I've never watched HDTV. Maybe because I don't go to the cinema and expect the cinema experience.
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I have to say, in my opinion, your standards must be pretty low.
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Good reviews for a similar model here:
www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-X110-Projector-SVGA-2-2Kg/dp/B00343IGN8
Looks nothing if not good value, £200 or so would buy you a decent small telly, but not much more.
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Projector TV - Iffy
