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In Reply to: RE: North American environmental strategy of going green� posted by kootenay on October 22, 2009 at 07:47:50

I have a 50" Panasonic plasma for living room, but am planning on Panasonic xxx4000 projector for HT (thinking of 72" screen to fit between Magnepan speakers). I'm close to ruling out larger acoustically translucent screen for both sound and because we don't want a picture too big. I was thinking that a projector would be easier on the eyes than even plasma. I was suprised that you want to go from projector to plasma unless maybe your projector is old and you thought that projectors are not as sharp?
So I was wondering why you would go that route since I have been recently trying to decide between the 2. But after seeing a bit of some Sony xxx40 projector recently was quite impressed w/ what projectors can do now.

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I have been using the projector for movies for 9 years now.... - kootenay 16:08:49 10/22/09 (0)
and have been very happy with them especially the one I'm using currently which is 110" diagonally with no issues whatsoever. I'm moving to plasma display because of its less maintenance (bulb) and its longevity aspect. Besides, I'm moving my HT dedicated set-up into a smaller room (16'X12') and turn my current HT room (14'X18') into a dedicated 2-channel music only.

However, I still consider the projector as the best bang for the buck regarding watching movies.

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
RE: Plasma vs projector - cfraser 14:03:58 10/22/09 (2)
I use Maggies as the fronts with a 60" plasma. I also do not like "too big" a picture, it just bothers me for inexplicable reasons. The other day I was watching something and I actually thought "this is too big"...probably nothing that a lot of the right drugs can't fix. :) Imagine somebody with Maggies complaining that a *screen* is too big...

One cool thing with Maggies is the IR remote shoots right through them.
- Maggies transparent to IR - sbrians 17:57:26 10/22/09 (1)
  I did not consider that. Good to know (or try). I see you have 1.6s.
  - RE: Maggies transparent to IR - cfraser 22:04:12 10/22/09 (0)
    It helps in a typical width room (non mansion), what with the screen width, the racks, and having to place the Maggies so far from the walls and still decently far apart.

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