RE: widescreen

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

The SV was video only (and about 1980 vintage) and has long since been
retired.

I now have an NEC P6Extra (which has a wonderful feature called point
convergence which I won't bore you with but which I think is amazing and
makes accurate setup dog easy) which is being driven at 1,365 x 1,024 on a
16:9 screen of 6ft width (i.e. anamorphic). The feed is generated by a
TView
Quadscan (www.TView.com) which runs out at about £1,750 but performs all
appropriate scaling of video (i.e. 4:3 into the centre of a 16:9 screen)
and
leaves the projector only requiring one set up.

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Doxey [mailto:keith.doxey@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 30 November 2000 10:19
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] widescreen


Hi Phil,

Is the Barco SV just a video projector or is it a Data/graphics projector
as well (VGA input)?

At work I installed a Barco Graphics 808S which will handle in excess of
1280x1024 and has a built in line doubler for video sources. This is
projecting on a 10ft screen (8x6) and as you say in normal video mode you
can see the scan lines but with the doubler kicked in the picture is
superb.

I installed an old Barco 800 (which was well past its sell by date
Video-ok, VGA-ok, SVGA-pretty naff, XGA-no hope) in a friends house and he
has it on a 7ft diag screen. That also had scan lines visible in video mode
but a search of the net found a UK company doing line doublers for about 80
quid. He bought one and now feeds the VGA input with line doubled video and
it is superb.

If you want details on the doubler I will get them from him.

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From:	Phil Harris [SMTP:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
Sent:	30 November 2000 10:08
To:	ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject:	RE: [ukha_d] widescreen


I used to run a Barco SV on a (roughly) 7ft x 5ft "screen" (OK
... a damn
great sheet of hardboard pained white!)

Nicely impressive except for the fact that the image brightness was naff
due
to the size of the projected image and the scanlines were about wide enough
apart to run my old Honby trainset on (from when I was a kid of course).

Now I want to do it right.

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 November 2000 23:20
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] widescreen


A rant close to my own heart!

We ended up buying a Cheapo Goodmans 33 inch 4:3 TV rather than a
widescreen
set: the screen is the same width as a 28" widescreen, but a lot
higher,
and
brilliant for Football games!

Ian.














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