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Topic: Benq W1070 Question
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Andrew Woodcock
Film God
Posts: 7477
From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012
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posted May 11, 2015 08:13 AM
If you don't have a dedicated room for your projectors like myself, then I suppose whatever ratio you choose will always be a compromise at one point or another in the way I feel my own screen is.
I have an electric 10ft diagonal 16:9 screen. This means the modern digital panel more often than not, fits it perfectly with the entire white section of the screen being filled to capacity.
However when I use my cine projector of course, this leaves the two sides of the screen unfilled by cropping the image size from the cine projector to the top and bottom black masking bars.
Also then when you project cine films in scope using an anamorphic lens as well, the full width of the screen comes in very handy, but of course, there is a section of the screen at the top and bottom that is not utilized and therefore remains white outside of the top and bottom black borders.
For those fortunate enough to have a separate home cinema room, you would surely pick a scope shaped screen and have moving black tabs to crop the width accordingly depending on what is being screened.
For everyone else, including myself, it really does have to be a compromise and as 4:3 screen sizes are the furthest away from the scope aspect and will therefore only give relatively small scope images, I chose to go for the screen shape that will cater the best it can for all of my needs which in my case was the 16:9 ratio at the tallest size I can accommodate in my smallish lounge.
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Andrew Woodcock
Film God
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From: Manchester Uk
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posted May 11, 2015 08:52 AM
If I could have a 4:3 screen the width of my 16:9 one Vidar, then there would be no compromise and I could lower it to the correct height each time as you suggest Vidar.
However, in my case, that would mean for the width of screen I currently have, the 4:3 equivalent would be around 18 inches off the carpet and that would be when mounting it, as I presently do, right up to the ceiling.
When I used to have a fairly large 4:3 manual screen in the home, to come down to where my present one does, it was only around 60 inches wide, which I prefer wider than that to get decent height of image in scope.
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Mitchell Dvoskin
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 128
From: West Milford, NJ
Registered: Jun 2008
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posted May 11, 2015 09:58 AM
I have an earlier BenQ 8700+ which was the latest and greatest consumer HD DLP video projector circa 2004. I used it until last September without any problems. In fact, the only reason I bought a new one was that I wanted 3D capability. I'm projecting onto the same 12x5 foot wide screen I use for projecting 35mm at home. Like many cinemas, it is a fixed common height screen with movable side masking.
As too the rainbows, as Andrew said, you will need to see it for yourself. I almost never notice them, and when I do it is only with high contrast B&W along with quick head motion. On the other hand, I have friends who cannot watch single chip DLP without seeing them. It makes it unwatchable for them.
Personally, These days I recommend the Panasonic PT-AE8000 (I'm not sure if the British model number is different). It is an LCD based projector with excellent color/brightness/contrast, and is 3D capable. With a well mastered Bluray, it rivals 35mm in picture quality.
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