Projectors anyone?

been thinking of projection at home for watching dvd's, have adequate sound. looking for entry level home projector - anyone into this type of thing & can offer a few pointers? (excuse presentation pun)

thanks.

photoben has one of these, film thread or p.m him for info, or keep going out cheapskate

nice one, will follow up tomorrow.

I could live without tbh J, still making it a bit comfier without submitting to the tv life once more won't be too bad. Going online again too, no more phoneternet or piggybacking neighbours wireless... happy days!

Have an old Panasonic 720p projector and electric screen that I bought about 5 years ago, one of the best purchases I have made. Canceled TV licence and just watch films and box sets :-)

Screen rolls up or down at the touch of a button so is out the way when not in use, do budget for a screen as it makes an enormous difference.

Demo some projectors and lookup the dlp rainbow effect as some people (myself included) can struggle with them vs LCD

rhb. If you go down the route of PMing photoben, could you post his feedback on here. I'd find it useful. Cheers danb for the info.

I use an ACER its pin sharp, need an external sound system though [i use the stereo] cheapish only fault is that the zoom is a bit lacking ie. if you want a massive screen [2mx2.5m 4:3] size you will need about 3m from source to screen, in out front room you can get a big enough picture to be impressed. fan not too noisy and has performed well for 6mnths of daily use. at first i thought it would be shit as acer dont have a great name in quality but the unit is cheap, great lumens, well made, compact and is pretty well speced up. but u get what you pay for in the end. great for games and films hell yeah!

... looking for entry level home projector ..

+1

Fuck paying TV license.

Anyone got any up to date experience with projectors? We hardly watch TV but would be nice to have something to watch movies on. We’ll just be projecting onto a white wall so doesn’t have to be super fancy. Definitely on the budget end of the market ideally. Cheers

Phillips Picopix has been brilliant for us for many years now. Pic quality isn't top of the range but at the price has been good enough. Has an audio jack out so we get good sound through the stereo.

Here's a couple of pictures of what it's like in action. It struggles a bit with brightness of some animations, not unwatchable but defo noticeable.

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If I wanted a ceiling mounted projector in my lounge there's no getting away from the fact that it's going to require a long cable, some trunking or a socket in a really weird place is there? Is it even possible within regs to have a socket up by the ceiling?

It is even possible!

That's a skylight above ours, bifolds below, is you're not sure what you're looking at.

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I started off this evening looking in to surround sound cable runs, this has escalated quickly.

I assume you have some sort of HDMI feed behind there somewhere?

Edit: is that an AP I spy sitting on top?

HDMI yep, AP - no, it's just a cheap Amazon projector mount that really needs a dust.

I wouldn't bother with the phono out again or ethernet again as we've never used either.

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Don't suppose you know where the wall plate is from? Struggling to find 1 gang with hdmi

@Fox

https://www.focus-sb.co.uk/products/av

Their website isn't much help I'm afraid. From the paintable range, might have been custom, our architect chose our sockets and with hindsight they were too expensive!

cheers! Will send them the question

Don't suppose you know where the wall plate is from? Struggling to find 1 gang with hdmi

You could make your own using Euro grid modules like these.

We ha have a ceiling mounted projector and project onto a painted wall and are exceptionally happy with it. A friend who is a tv cameraman was sceptical about how well it would work. But when he saw it said the colour balance was as good as most TVs. The sky Home Screen blue is fractionally out but nothing significant and nothing the brain won’t accommodate after a minute or so of watching.

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Huh, cool. I assumed you meant a white wall when I saw the first photo. What model is it?

@grams that was my backup plan, but as far as I can see 13a euro modules don't tend to have a switch, which I'm not sure is safe or legal.

Switches on mains sockets are a convenience feature, not a safety feature. The shutters on the holes are what stop the electrons leaking out.

The rest of the world thinks we're weird for having switches everywhere, because they mostly don't.

Also going down the painted wall route. About to buy a BENQ TK800M, not really a home cinema connoisseur, just needing bright and reasonable. @dancing James looks decent.

It’s an Epson one. Can’t remember the product code

We have blackout curtains as ambient light makes it problematic watching tv in daylight. But we rarely watch tv during daytime though summer evenings were not great until the curtains arrived.

expensive

Yeah, £200 for a 13a, HDMI & RJ45!

We had a double plug socket and another socket box put on the ceiling and ran the hdmi,Ethernet and power cables in the ceiling.

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