What are *you* doing?

[kokopup]

Redesigning my home Theater to use an Anamorphic lens so I can watch Cinemascope (2.35 to 1) without the black bars at top and bottom. I will be building my lens out of Prisms and will redo my screen from a 98"x48" to a 115"x48". When viewing standard HDTV the screen will still be 98x48 but when viewing wide screen movies will be 115X48. The height
will remain constant and the width will change. The way it is now depending on what you are watching the height or width changes. A part of my design will be a masking system
so when the width changes you will not see a black bar on sides.

Also setting up Bike club Notebook Computer with Garman GPS for realtime mapping of Trails.

[blue]

Redesigning my home Theater to use an Anamorphic lens so I can watch Cinemascope (2.35 to 1) without the black bars at top and bottom. I will be building my lens out of Prisms and will redo my screen from a 98"x48" to a 115"x48". When viewing standard HDTV the screen will still be 98x48 but when viewing wide screen movies will be 115X48.

Your making you own lens?? I want pics if you are!

[stace1319]

watching tosh.o and getting ready to feed the kitties, check on everyone and then go to bed.

[kokopup]

Posted by blue

"Your making you own lens?? I want pics if you are!"

Actually this is a lens that will be in front of my standard Projector lens. I just ordered my prisms but will be glad to post pictures when I finish with the lens. The prisms are used to stretch the image to fill the 115" screen. The image is first stretched vertical electronically to eliminate the black lines and then stretched horizontally to fill the wide screen.The pixels that are lost in the black bars are utilized this way so a larger screen ends up being brighter. Normally the larger screen would be dimmer.

Right now my only hurtle is mounting my prism lens with out it looking rigged. Right not my projected in in another room projecting through a 6"x6" hole in the wall. Since the new lens has to go in front I'm having trouble figuring how to do it without have the lens visible on the wall or how to mount the new lense in the other room without a much bigger hole in the wall. Right now the projector is hidden and I would like to keep everything hidden if possible.

[blue]

I hope you have a fast upload speed .

I live on the edge of the boonies, besides I shouldnt need much of a transfer rate just starting out, I hope.

Posted by blue


Actually this is a lens that will be in front of my standard Projector lens. I just ordered my prisms but will be glad to post pictures when I finish with the lens. The prisms are used to stretch the image to fill the 115" screen. The image is first stretched vertical electronically to eliminate the black lines and then stretched horizontally to fill the wide screen.The pixels that are lost in the black bars are utilized this way so a larger screen ends up being brighter. Normally the larger screen would be dimmer.

Right now my only hurtle is mounting my prism lens with out it looking rigged. Right not my projected in in another room projecting through a 6"x6" hole in the wall. Since the new lens has to go in front I'm having trouble figuring how to do it without have the lens visible on the wall or how to mount the new lense in the other room without a much bigger hole in the wall. Right now the projector is hidden and I would like to keep everything hidden if possible.

Now I would realy like to see pics of the build and of the theater room.

[kokopup]

quote by Blue

Now I would realy like to see pics of the build and of the theater room.

I have some Pictures of my Theater that I will put on my server. I will
give you the link once I have them up there. I will also put pictures of
my lens once I'm finished.

[happylabs]

I just got up, fed and walked the dog and am now reading Pet Talk before I shower and getting ready for work. I love Mondays.

[ChrisH]

Checking out some threads here on Pet Talk whilst listening, and now and then watching, MTV Two Vintage. Be taking Bobby on his walk soon.

[Suki Wingy]

Sitting in the laundromat mooching internet even though all my clothes are washed, dried, and folded in my car already. I'm currently looking at Harry Potter related tattoos and wishing I saved my money better so I could get all the tattoos I've been planning now instead of later.

[Hellow]

@ Blue:
Unless your upload is a lot better than mine, you are not going to be able to run a fast website (click it to test your internet upload/download speeds):



Now, you could probably serve plain text easily. Images on a speed like that get a little interesting, though. Really, from home, the only speeds that are worth hosting a website with images on is a SDSL (Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line) or SHDSL (Single-Pair High-speed Digital Subscriber Line) connection. The most common DSL is ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line). That is, unless you want to start getting something at the level of a T-1 line or above, but that gets insanely expensive for someone not a business.

Best option: Get a hosting account from a hosting company (Media Temple, Slicehost, and Linode are my favourites) and let them deal with all of what I said above.

[K9karen]

On PT answering this thread and watching the news.

[Hellow]

I live on the edge of the boonies, besides I shouldnt need much of a transfer rate just starting out, I hope.

If you have any number of visitors or if you have many pictures, you will need a fast upload speed .

[smokey the elder]

Waiting for QA. (Is that anything like Waiting for Godot?

[Hellow]

Listening to "When Worlds Collide" by Powerman 5000 while answering questions and trying to finish my site at the same time. This isn't working.