Illumiroom opinions

[SvennoJ]

disolitude said:

SvennoJ said:

I play games with a 1080p projector on a 92" screen. It's worth the price of admission, great experience but not cheap if you want a quality setup. I paid about $2400 for a 1100 lumen home theater projector to get the best movie experience with another $800 for a good screen, plus replacement bulbs cost $350 every 2000 hours.
Games like GT5 and Wipeout HD are so much more immersive on a big screen. And all racing games and anything else with precision steering becomes a lot easier.

A projector like this would be a brighness upgrade over your current projector and would save you the bulb cost over its lifetime since it has an estimate of 20K hours.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824116575

And this is only the first gen of these high end LED home theater projector. Within 2 years these should be $999

Nah, maybe in the future those will get better, for now that's a big downgrade in features and image quality.
http://www.projectorcentral.com/viewsonic_pro9000_home_theater_projector_review.htm
Brightness is not a problem anyway, I have it calibrated a bit above cinema brightness but still dark enough not to notice the 24p judder too much. Go too bright and 24p video turns into a slideshow on a big screen. (At least for me)

I'm waiting for a $2000 - $3000 range 4K home theater projector with HDMI 2.0
1 more bulb replacement should hopefully get me there.

Actually I just found this today: 4K 50" LCD for $1299, prices are starting to come down.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/12/seiki-50-inch-4k-1300/
50" is a bit small for 4K, I would need to sit between 5.4ft to 6.5ft away from that to get my preferred display sharpness.
Bit too large for a pc monitor. Still I'm tempted to try it out at that price...