Nick

The key to any projection setup is lighting control. If using home theater projectors whose brightness range from 1000-2000 ansi lumes lighting control is essential. I have set up many outdoor projection events using projectors with 6500+ lumens and you could see nothing until the sun had set. So if you can wait until later ( around 9pm in California during the summer months ) you will have a great time. Also keep in mind that the brightness will decrease the larger the projected image becomes or the further the projector is away from the screen. Anything larger than 110 inches will be fairly dim unless you have near complete darkness.

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Nick

The Arcam Blu-Ray was the moment for me, even though I won't ever be able to afford one. Also, Where the heck was Oppo ?

Go canon Hv30. HDV is proven. Tapes are perfect for archiving and cheap to purchase. Never worry about having to erase previous footage, just pop in a new tape and throw the old tape into the archive.

Meh...I will trade getting GTA4 simultaneously released on 360 and PS3 and let Bioshock PS3 get released 17 months after the 360 release.

In 2012 my Xbox 360 will be as useful as my 2001 Xbox is today...Not very useful.

Go for the panasonic 42inch 1080p plasma (PANASONIC TH-42PZ85U). You can get it for under 1500 bucks. The Panasonic panels are used all over Vegas and other commercial facilities and are known for a long (70,000 hour) panel life and fantastic pixel shifting technology to prevent burn in.

Another vote for the Beyer DT770. I love mine. They sound amazing. They are very well made. Parts can be replaced (not that you would need too unless an unfortunate accident occurred) individually and easily without having to replace the entire headphone. Great for music, pro audio, gaming. BH has them for 180 or so.

IT IS A BIG DEAL ! 640p has only 79% of the pixel density of 720p. That is a lot of detail.

I have been burning HD-DVD on Red Laser DVD-5 for months using DVD Studio Pro. I get about 30 minutes per 4.7 gigs. It looks amazing on both the Toshiba and Xbox 360 HD DVD players.

1080i has 5+ times the resolution of 480p. As far as 720p on a CRT, here is an answer I found on another post.

As I understand it (and I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong), it has to do with the number of scanlines and the accuracy of the gun.

When a TV draws a 1080i image, it's scanning two fields with 540 lines each. One field shows half the image, the other field shows the other half.

In order to draw a 720p image, the TV would have to scan one field with 720 lines. That means the scanlines are packed much closer together, and the gun would have to move much faster to draw the image on the screen.

Furthermore, a typical high definition broadcast displays an image at 60 frames per second. With a 1080i broadcast, the TV will typically only have to scan 60 540 line fields every second, and a 720p broadcast would require a 720 line field to be drawn 60 times per second.