The ultimate gaming screen

That's awesome, but why the need for anonymity?



If I had a room like that I'd get it tattooed on my face.

ok so since the 360 doesnt support 4096 x 2160 resolution, its actually 720p upscaled on the projector, right?

please, someone help me out because im confused as hell.

1080i upscaled, probably

IF that's the actual system being run it would be a SONY 4k projector protoype. There's none used in the field as even digital cinema does not run at these levels. I doubt that the image is even upsampled so it's really just 720p anyway. If the person hooking this up knows what they're doing they may have 5.1 sound, but more likely standard stereo. The person is probably blurred because it's some popcorn slinger hooking it up after hours without anyones permission.

thats some big ddr...







imaginw the sizes of the dance pads...

Anyone else think its Gates's mini-theatre in his house?

it cant be 1080i the 360 cant produce 1080i

Yes, it's upscaled.



It's anon because this projector is one of like two dozen in the entire country and the person who has access to it doesn't really want the publicity.

Truepatriot: I run 1080i on my 360. Not sure what you mean by that?

I bet some manager or theater worker stayed after and hooked his 360 up to those advertisement projectors you see stuff on before the movies now.

I've got a (no where near as nice) projector (benQ 6200) hooked up to my XBox, and while it is great for playing 4 person Halo matches (each screen is about 40" wide), I find it almost too large for playing some games. Too much screen to look over, even when sitting pretty far back.



Now, this is on the original XBox, so it isn't HD, which I imagine would make a pretty big difference.



Regardless, I wouldn't say no if someone was offering.

It looks like someone decided to work late at there movie theater. How awesome would it be to play Geometry Wars on that display!



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I've done this myself once: a friend from my high school was working a summer job at the IMAX in Myrtle Beach, SC. He was closing one night whn I came down to visit him and since I brought my Xbox w/ me, we asked the manager if we could try the setup. He OK'ed it, so we frantically called our friends that were in the area, grabbed another Xbox, and hooked them up to two of the screens. Fifteen minuter, we had an 8 player Capture the Flag competition on screens three stories tall!!! Damn, those pixels were the size of your head.

good lord.

Nice setup, good for playing ports of XBox1 and PC games!

4096 X 2196 isn't HD, it's super-HD!



Of course, 720p upscaled to that would not look as good as playing it on a native 720p display. Or would it? (I have never seen 720p content upconverted so can anyone tell how it looks?)

It could be Bill Gates. If you watched the special features on Episode 3 it looks like a theater from the Skywalker Ranch.

That's just a tech demo center that happens to be running a 360. I've been in one just like it when I was taking a tour of a company's complex. Judging by the quality of the image set-up, I'd bet my money that the company deals with display technology, like projectors or something, and this is part of its demo center. *Glances at banner* DLP, maybe?

20 Years? Doubtful...



I may not OWN a theater, but I can certainly rent one.



And is it me, or is the guy in the pic sitting in the second row? Why so close with such a big screen?

My favorite pastime is sneaking into work (off hours of course) with my console and using their projection system.

i work at one of those "DLP" companies in Dallas(take a wild guess), we have a demo theater just like that setup but that one sure aint ours.

"Of course, 720p upscaled to that would not look as good as playing it on a native 720p display. Or would it? "



With the right processor, it would look better.



A lot of guys right now run DVD's through their home theater PC's and use ffdshow to process them in various ways and then output them at double the resolution (1440x960). I have seen side-by-side comparisons; the upconverted ones *do* look better.



Obviously, you can't get any more detail than what's actually there. But what you can do is basically smooth and sharpen at the same time - with more resolution you have more "headroom" to anti-alias, and the processor can then sharpen so that the result looks both sharper and smoother than the original.



Doing all this processing in real-time requires a LOT of horsepower, which is why so many scalers in current TV's and DVD players suck so bad. The guys who do this stuff on HTPC's right now are running 3+ ghz machines, and you're not even talking very high resolutions there.



But eventually we'll get to a point when yes, it'll be viable to take a 1080i signal and upconvert it to "2160p" or whatever you want and it'll come out looking better than the original, with no detail lost and a smoother picture that appears just as sharp.

that is so awesome!!



that is gonna be me with my friends come february 17th 2006



ill be at a loews in nyc playin some mario kart 4 player action on the big screen !!

"It's anon because this projector is one of like two dozen in the entire country and the person who has access to it doesn't really want the publicity."



Actually there are around 140 digital cinemas in the US alone with more being added all the time. Any kid with access to the projection booth could have hooked the 360 up to a projector long enough for a photo. At least he was smart enough to not lose his job over it.

Todd -- what you say is true. But this projector is special. It's not your typical digital projector.

It must be bill gates house

Lol its not as if this guy is bill gates - hes just the cleaner at the local cinema who has plugged his xbox into the projector and had a bit of a laugh



Hence the anonymity ;)

Been there, done that, with a PC in a cinema. Not quite that high a resolution, but still quite amazing. Pics here, if anyone's interested:



http://gtasanandreas.net/news/single.php?id=1421

It's not some room. Looks like a movie theatre to me. And if I must say, it looks quite like the one at The Alamo in Bucksport, Maine... where they'll let you hook up game machines before showings start if you like.



We had a blast a few years ago playing Super Smash Bros. Melee and Gran Turismo 3 on that screen.

Definately a movie theatre like everyone has stated.



Heck, I can rent a theatre room at my local movie theatre for conference meetings, private screening, birthday party or like this, massive gaming party.

Although(and very obvious), the price isn't cheap.

Actually I'm pretty sure there is only 1 of these screens in the US right now (at least there was when I saw it october at my university ;)

Yea, I understand that this person is claiming that they are using a special projector that only started shipping last October and costs about 100 grand, but I don't see any proof that this is what they are using. Unless this person has a picture of his 360 hooked up to the projector then we can't say any of these claims are true. I could produce a picture just like that at my local cinema easily, then make just as grand of a claim. A lot of people want to believe anything that they see in emails and on the internet without taking it with a grain of salt. That's the reason tons of ludicrous urban legends are forwarded from person to person all the time without any attempt to see if it is true.

It's stupid letting the 360 upscale to 1080i and then upscale to the projectors native resolution, so I hope he has set the 360 to output 720p.



If the projectors native resolution would be 1280x720 the image quality would be better, although with this resolution I don't suppose you would be able to tell the difference.. ;)



He might be sitting that close to the screen because hes still calibrating the projector..?



Oh, and NFS:MW exists for PC, why not use a PC with one of those 360-controller-replicas and get much higher resolution? (He does seem to have the money..)

Not Bills house. But it is a Famous place. :)