Having had a 50" Plasma for a long time I have come to that point where I feel the need to go bigger where Movies are concerned and get the real cinematic feel to movie time at home by adding a projector, but i don't know if my room is big enough?
I live in a "standard" 1930's semi and the TV sits in the window bay with my viewing position aprox 12ft away. My idea/plan was to leave all current equipment exactly where it is and keep the Plaz for day to day viewing and instal a manual dropdown screen that will come down just infront of the TV and have the Projector on a shelf on the rear wall just behind my viewing position at aprox 13ft from the screen as I don't want to have to mount the PJ onto the celling. Will the PJ be OK like this or must I use a cellings mount? if the PJ is ok on a shelf, at what hight in relation to the screen must in be aligned? top? Middle or bottom?
Then there is which PJ to go for within my £1500 budget! I'm split 50/50 on if 3D will last but am thinking I may as well get a PJ that is 3D if I can so I thought maybe either the Epson EH-TW6000(lcd) or the Optoma HD33(DLP), has anyone seen either or preferibly both in action? or am I better to forget about 3D if I can get a much better 2D PJ within my budget as only a small amount of my viewing would be in 3D?
Screen size I was thinking of aprox 6ft wide 16:9 screen and using the throw ratio of the Epson of 1.3-2.15 and a 6ft screen by my caculations I can place the PJ between 7.8/12.9ft away from the screen to fill the 6FT screen, right?
So any help?
I live in a "standard" 1930's semi and the TV sits in the window bay with my viewing position aprox 12ft away. My idea/plan was to leave all current equipment exactly where it is and keep the Plaz for day to day viewing and instal a manual dropdown screen that will come down just infront of the TV and have the Projector on a shelf on the rear wall just behind my viewing position at aprox 13ft from the screen as I don't want to have to mount the PJ onto the celling. Will the PJ be OK like this or must I use a cellings mount? if the PJ is ok on a shelf, at what hight in relation to the screen must in be aligned? top? Middle or bottom?
Then there is which PJ to go for within my £1500 budget! I'm split 50/50 on if 3D will last but am thinking I may as well get a PJ that is 3D if I can so I thought maybe either the Epson EH-TW6000(lcd) or the Optoma HD33(DLP), has anyone seen either or preferibly both in action? or am I better to forget about 3D if I can get a much better 2D PJ within my budget as only a small amount of my viewing would be in 3D?
Screen size I was thinking of aprox 6ft wide 16:9 screen and using the throw ratio of the Epson of 1.3-2.15 and a 6ft screen by my caculations I can place the PJ between 7.8/12.9ft away from the screen to fill the 6FT screen, right?
So any help?