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Hi, I am new to this board though I've been with AA for a while. I recently completed construction on a 18' x13' home entertainment room in my basement. I ran a dedicated 20 amp power supply,framed over and heavily insualted the walls and ceiling. I then spent considerable time optimizing my analog front end for good sound: accoustic panels, speaker placement etc. I'm ready to move on and want to add some video, digital source of course : ). (The audio portion is well equipped with a Denon AVR and decent quality speakers+sub). I am concerned with ruining my superb soundstage with a big box TV so a projector is the direction I'm headed. I currenly have a possibilty to acquire a Electrohome Marquee 8500 CRT style projector. Its a 1996 and since its coming out of a public institution probably has a lot of hours of it. I dont think I will have a chance to turn it on and check the hours before the auction, but the department who owned it prior said it "worked fine but the picutre was starting to get a little dark". So chances are it needs new tubes.The good news is I might be able to pick this thing up for as little as 300 bucks. Here are my questions
1)Is there a chance that all 3 tubes might not be burnt? and if all 3 are bad, how much $ am I looking at ?
2)The distance from my back wall to the future screen location is 18 feet, is this far enough for this giant thing to focus properly?
3) the ceiling is also rises up 10 inches higher at about the halfway point in the room (9 feet back from screen). Will the ceiling mounted projector shine under this step?
4)This unit has the factory manual, but the remote is missing, is it available and how much would it cost?
5)I currently have an older (non-progressive scan )DVD player, although it does have component video out. A freind suggested running this through a new $300. line trippler that just came on the market(can't recall the name just now). would this give me an outstanding quality 7 foot picture?
I would welcome any helpfull input as I dive into this bewildering new phase of my quest( also feel free to E-mail me).
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If i recall correctly that projo has 8" tubes and would cost about $4000 canadian to retube. New that projo retailed for about $30,000 canadian and was quite good. For a 7 foot screen size, typically, you would set the front of the projo about 9 feet from the screen but check with the owners manual for an exact distance. You can usually be off by plus or minus ten percent and it should still focus fine. I wouldn't recommend a line tripler but a line doubler should work fine as long as it was a high quality one. I can't recall if it can do anamorphic but if it can,then a line doubler is not even required nor desired.
If i recall correctly that projo has 8" tubes and would cost about $4-5000 canadian to retube. New that projo retailed for about $30,000 canadian and was quite good. For a 7 foot screen size, typically, you would set the front of the projo about 9 feet from the screen but check with the owners manual for an exact distance. You can usually be off by plus or minus ten percent and it should still focus fine. I wouldn't recommend a line tripler but a line doubler should work fine as long as it was a high quality one. I can't recall if it can do anamorphic but if it can,then a line doubler is not even required nor desired.
Wow, that looks like a nice projector. Technically, it should do 1080P. You can order the remote online for about $225. If the guns are going, they will run you about $600 each. You might want to find out if there is anyone in your area that can service it. Moving around is quite dificult, at 150 pounds.
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