RE: Home cinema

["Nigel Giddings" <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,

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I can't understand the indecisiveness... I can understand the confusion :-)

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You cannot beat the full sound system of 5.1 or 7.1, the sub woofer does
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for me...

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A decent image on a large screen, in a darkened room, also helps to
transpo=
rt you into the film...

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Personally I feel that PCs (I only have windows experience) are at such a
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rice/performance point that it should be the centre of any setup... For
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h less than =A3500 you can get a PC that can output HDTV and full surround
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audio. The advantage is up-scaling DVD material, Freeview and SKY SD.
Abili=
ty to play HD downloads, there is now HD content available that is royalty
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free...

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The only issue is how to project, large LCDs and Plasmas are still a bit
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all.... Having experienced CRT it would seem the way to go but is
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or requires a lot of fettling. LCD and DLP projectors are very good now es=
pecially if you spend =A34K plus...

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If you have the room why not do it. My cinema can also be used for
entertai=
ning as a party space, great for interactive DVD games, presentation suite
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and maybe one day as a posh video conference system...

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Do you have a room in mind, what size, natural light, sound reflectiveness?

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Nigel

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hunter [mailto:cjhunter@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 04 December 2006 18:59
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Home cinema

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'was going to include a home-cinema in our build ... 'even had plans ...=20
now we've decided it would be a bad idea, because it's not often we want=20
to watch the same films ... so, what to do ? !

At the moment, we play DVDs on our 'Macs - 'works well, good colour=20
rendition, good sound, and reasonably convenient to control . Somehow,=20
using DVD players sounds more sensible ... 'less expensive, and=20
optimised for the task ... but when I've used them, on 'planes, they've=20
not actually been as-good ... so, what to do ? !

On top of which, the core-resolution of DVDs is not that great , do=20
projectors & cinema-displays really make that much sense ???

'confused & indecisive ... !

Chris.

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