We have liftoff !!

Well yesterday my "new" projector came by fedex! The Hitachi projector was setup within 10 mins and I went to the local Home dept store and bought 2 bike hooks and 2x 1"x2"x6' wooden poles. I set the hooks in the ceiling and place a wooden pole across them. Then took the screen material I got from Ebay ($10 for 115" screen size), and draped it over the pole. using the second pole I attached it to the bottom of the material. Taddaarr !! a nice screen for my projector at a cost of $15. (the material is made just for this with a rubber backing so it is always flat and I can fold it up and take it down when I want to.)
Anyhow ... I got it all together and setup took about 20 mins to do the screen and setup the projector. To my great relief the projector shone bright with a perfect picture. The colors are clear, and the picture sharp. Now I cant find any sign of how many lamp hours are left but i'll cross that bridge when i come to it.
This projector has tons of inputs. 2 RGB sets / 2 PC VGA inputs / multi audio in and out and some other lder input types. and it swaps to the active input automaticly!!. The zoom and focus are powered and can be controled by a few simple buttons. The projector has a 650 lumin lamp and I must say on the screen it looks very bright even in normal light conditions - I'd say the material of the screen helps alot as it refects light with little refective shards in it. In all Iam very happy with it. So for a total of around $200 I have a home theater system ! using my PC and Achos 700 as video feeds. Cant wait for summer and I can place it outside on a 300" wall for a drive-in movie kinda feel ! (using the Achos 700 as the portable video source).

Merry Christmas to you all !!

They sent me the wrong projector ! o-boy

I recived the epson projector on the 18th of Dec. I was like "Wow it's early" then i opened it and set it up. To my dismay it had a yellow blob of washed out color in the middle indicative of a projector with 3000+ hours on it and the blue LCD has been exposed to too much ultravilot light causing it to only let 30% light through instead of the 100% normaly. So then you mix the red + green and the washed out blue ya get that yellow blob. To top this off the red lcd was WAY out of allignment and so overall this projector was fubar. I called the company I purchased it from and they said they must have shipped me the wrong one and sent my nice 100% working one to the other guy (who iam guessing is gonna be really happy with it seeing as he ordered one that was ment to be a parts machine). I said " Could you send me a working one then please? " to which they said , opps we dont have anymore of them ..... But we do have a Hitachi cp-l850?. So I looked up the hitachi on the web -boy it was a pain to find that one for some reason- after finding the info on this Hitachi I said sure but check that it's 100% working 1st. The sales man Deva then went over to the test area and personaly played with the projector and check the the thing out as I had instructed him to do so. His reply to me was hey this look great , it's got a very clean picture and looks almost new. To this end I said "How much more is this projector then?" Deva said "seeing as we gave yours to someone else you can just have this as a trade up" They even paid the shipping cost directly back to me for the other projector I sent back, and it will get here before the 25th :) Iam adding a picture of the newer Hitachi projector below so you can see the difference between them. Sorry it's such a small pic. It's a hard to find model for some strange reason.

Need a new picture for my blog!

Just a better picture then my suit and 3/4 face shot. So i dont look super happy but hey . I was trying to take my own picture and ... I suck at taking pictures lol.

Projecting the image!

I spent a week on ebay bidding on many video projection systems untill I got one at the price I was willing to pay:) Now that seams normal for ebay right? My good fortune is the fact that I picked up a projector that not only shows HDTV (using an rgb to vga converter) but ONLY has 100 lamp hours used lol. (2000 to 3000 hour lamp in it). All for the low price of $170 after shipping !! ... I must have bid on over 50 projectors before I won this at this price. So my moral here is ... "Good things come to he who waits"