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My wife always teases me by calling my office / home theater area “the batcave” but that was before we saw this. Wow.


That’s right, a Batcave themed home theater created by New Hampshire-based installer DC Audio Video Systems. The set-up includes prop bats which hang from above, a motorized 110″ 16:9 Stewart Electriscreen, Triad Silver THX Speakers, and a Sony G90, a $36,000 commercial 1080p 2500 x 2000 CRT projector. The room also features eight black, motorized leather recliners and a LiteTouch LC5000 System for Lighting Control.
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It is a pre-movie for the movie "Monsters, Inc."
It has to do with one of the characters getting a car and nothing going right.

I enjoy seeing a good home theater setup but wow!
 
$36,000 for that projector and no HDMI or DVI input?

I looked up the specs for it.....
 
valve1138 said:
$36,000 for that projector and no HDMI or DVI input?

I looked up the specs for it.....
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If you're sending your signals more than 12 feet, you don't want HDMI. Professional installers use Component Video because if (when) it loses signal data, it's less noticable than digital data loss. (slight color variances for miliseconds vs blocky/pixelated screen images).HDMI is one way streaming digital with no error correction.

Composite, component and svideo were designed by broadcast engineers. HDMI was developed by computer engineers.
 
That's old news... I saw that on Gizmodo sometime end 2006 or early 2007. But it's quite nice ;)
 
Why do they say it's a 110" 16:9 screen, when the pixels on the screen work out to an aspect ratio of 5:4? :confused:
 
az_max said:
If you're sending your signals more than 12 feet, you don't want HDMI. Professional installers use Component Video because if (when) it loses signal data, it's less noticable than digital data loss. (slight color variances for miliseconds vs blocky/pixelated screen images).HDMI is one way streaming digital with no error correction.

Composite, component and svideo were designed by broadcast engineers. HDMI was developed by computer engineers.
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Well that might have been true at one point you can get quality HDMI cables that display 1080P well over 12ft. The second problem is that you won't even get the full 1080P because of the HDCP crap that limits analog connections. Sounds like $36,000 not very well spent to me.
 
bpmurrGT said:
Well that might have been true at one point you can get quality HDMI cables that display 1080P well over 12ft. The second problem is that you won't even get the full 1080P because of the HDCP crap that limits analog connections. Sounds like $36,000 not very well spent to me.
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And yet, the average person is clueless about all that, and will still marvel at how "great" it looks, even when they don't know it's running down in 480p. :p
 
InorganicMatter said:
And yet, the average person is clueless about all that, and will still marvel at how "great" it looks, even when they don't know it's running down in 480p. :p
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Because until people actually see the better they feel happy with what they have, but once they see something greater than their own they have a need to get the better. Only thing usually stopping people is money or a wife. :p
 
Cool idea. I like the Star Trek bar room too.

Thinking the foam they used on the walls may be a good insulator for the sound. (so you can really crank the sound up & not disturb the rest of the house)
 
Um, when you get a 30,000 projector retail, it will have digital add-on cards made my enthusiast.

In other words, the proper digital cards can be had for this projector.

Besides, they have ways around HDCP, more later though, I have to go.
 
The screen seems kinda small in that huge room. Still an awesome setup though ;)
 
InorganicMatter said:
Why do they say it's a 110" 16:9 screen, when the pixels on the screen work out to an aspect ratio of 5:4? :confused:
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They use 1920x1080 of the available pixels. It's letter boxed, but CRT projectors have the best blacks so you don't see the black bars, except if it's Scope aspect.

That projector was the top of the line in it's day, but Sony stopped making them quite a few years ago. It's been replaced with their SXRD digital line up, which is better in a lot of ways, but still trails the G90 in a few areas.

The biggest problem with those projectors was light output. That's why the guy only has a 110" screen. The high end setups used 2 projectors "stacked" both projecting the same image on the same screen for 2x the brightness.

That PJ may have listed for $36,000 retail back in it's day, but not now. Projectors depreciate faster than cars or computers. I bought a $13,000 list JVC projector in 2003 and sold it for $1,300 is 2006. I replaced it with Sony's 2nd gen SXRD projector at $10,000 and I would be lucky to get $3500 for it today. Sony's 1st gen SXRD projector was $30,000 three years ago, and now it's not worth much more than mine. That G90 is probably worth $3,000 - $5,000 and you would have to find the right buyer.
 
rabident said:
They use 1920x1080 of the available pixels. It's letter boxed, but CRT projectors have the best blacks so you don't see the black bars, except if it's Scope aspect.

That projector was the top of the line in it's day, but Sony stopped making them quite a few years ago. It's been replaced with their SXRD digital line up, which is better in a lot of ways, but still trails the G90 in a few areas.

The biggest problem with those projectors was light output. That's why the guy only has a 110" screen. The high end setups used 2 projectors "stacked" both projecting the same image on the same screen for 2x the brightness.

That PJ may have listed for $36,000 retail back in it's day, but not now. Projectors depreciate faster than cars or computers. I bought a $13,000 list JVC projector in 2003 and sold it for $1,300 is 2006. I replaced it with Sony's 2nd gen SXRD projector at $10,000 and I would be lucky to get $3500 for it today. Sony's 1st gen SXRD projector was $30,000 three years ago, and now it's not worth much more than mine. That G90 is probably worth $3,000 - $5,000 and you would have to find the right buyer.
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Wow it sounds like you just can't keep your fingers out of the cookie jar! Your wife must want to strangle you sometimes.. lol
 
az_max said:
If you're sending your signals more than 12 feet, you don't want HDMI. Professional installers use Component Video because if (when) it loses signal data,
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B.S. That's what HDMI/DVI over optical is for. I send 1080p 30 feet to a projector via copper DVI with no loss. If I had to go farther I could opt for the optical solution.

This guy has a crusty analog CRT front projector. The G90 is a relic. He has no choice but to use an analog connection.
 
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