Bigger is better
I picked up this for $800. I hooked it up to my intel mac mini (the one that was hooked up to my standard-def tv at the apartment) via a DVI cable. Holy Christ. I can actually read text on the screen. The 89″ screen. The projector is just sitting on my coffee table at the moment – the ceiling mount is on the way.
** paused to post on AVS Forum asking for DT-400 owners in/around Milwaukee **
Anywho, the picture is huge. Makes my 36″ look positively puny…which is ironic ’cause it weighs 216 pounds. Also, while searching Digg for a new TV torrent source, I happened upon ShareTV.org. In short, HD-ish quality on demand with no commercials. Not commercials to skip through, simply no commercials. And seven feet five inches diagonally across. Sweet monkey sandwich.
This brings me to another topic: cable tv. It sucks. Why do I have to pay for five channels I’ll watch and 68 (or more) I won’t? It’s absurd. Alright, I’d get FoodTV, Comedy Central, ESPN, ESPN2, Discovery, TLC, Speed, and Weather. Fine, I’d pay for eight channels I’d watch and 65 I wouldn’t. That’s it. Allow customers to pay a per-channel fee – hell, I’d even go for a graduated pricing scale – and a lot of people would come back to cable. At this point, my next purchase is one of these and one of these. Done. Between over-the-air HD and ShareTV.org, I’ll have plenty of media to view. Now to pick up a couple [more] of these.
