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[Koala]

Projection. Don't remember model number, but bought it aboutr 2 years ago for around $1800 US. Y0ou can get the model that replaced it at places like Price Club ("member only" discount warehouse) for $1200.

With my low pay I had to save a year to buy it and did a lot of research. Toshiba uses 9 inch tubes instead of 5 and 7 inchers others do so you get a lot more color saturation and 18% more contrast. You can also set the balck to "darker than black" (like you can on some DVD players now) which is real nice for widescreen movies.

It also has a user adjustable "divergence" control, so you can adjust the red and blue "edges" around images to disappear. Some tv's say they have it but don't. The Toshiba lets you adjust the overall picture with a central "+" target and then select 8 more locations (corners and middles of edges) so that ALL are clean.

It also uses "Colorstream" input, which has been adopted by most others now as "component video." This lets you run your video source directly to the color guns. The step from coax to RCA primariily improves audio, and moving to S-video makes a major immprovement of the picture. Colorstream doesn't always look better than s-video, but with a DVD that's been digitally mastered it makes as big a jump as s-video does over coax. With everything set properly and tweaked a bit, moves such as End of Days looks like film.

In the case of a DVD, when you go through anything else, you are converting digital to analog, and then the tv tuner converts the analog back to digital. With colorstream/component video, you're going digital to digital. This is another reason that I've never understood people who run their video through a reciever. The more electronics you put a signal through the more that signal can degrade. (And the more cables you have to buy.)

When deciding on what size to get, I doscovered that the image height of a full frame movie on a 27 inch tv was about the same as widescreen on a 50 incher. The next size that made sense to me was 60 or greater since the 55 only added about 1 inch to the image but a few hundred more in cost.

[Koala]

Almost forgot. A word of warning. Don't play video games on a projection tv. The screen that the image is shown on isn't like the phosphor screens in a regular tv. For those when the screen gets burned by the parts of a video game that never move on a screen you can have the screen "fixed" by a technician or sometimes "fix" it by leaving a bright white image on for a while. The screen in the projection tv has to be replaced, and Toshiba told me that it would run around $150.

BTW. After about 2 years of constantly being used (I normally program at home, with the tv on for backround noise) up to 20 or so hours at a time the image is still as good as when I first bought it. Can't say that about others I've seen.

I've known the president of our company for 8 years longer than I've worked for him. He saw my tv and bought the same model. Then some on the Bopard of Directors saw his and bought the same model or the larger versions. You'd think Toshiba would give me anotehr DVD player or something for all the sales.

[shu_hunter]

the dhd has a naquedah core, that's what the big red button taps into. did someone ask why the locals don't tap into the dhd power source? most of them are too primitive, the rest simply don't need to.

~Shu Hunter
:upto: stargate fan{atic}

[Roach]

Doesn't naquedah run out after a while? I doubt that there's a big Petrol ship run by the ancients, that zips around refilling the DHDs when noone's looking.

Oh, and incidentally, how often do you think the Stargate network is used? I mean, especially when it comes to the Go'uld. From what we've seen, they use the gates a lot. So do you think that the Go'uld have a way of refilling the DHD?

[Hungry]

btw, didn't i read somewhere that the stargate only reacts with nutrinos - nothing else - which means that these particles and antiparticles 's energy would somehow have to be converted to a nutrino (by bombarding something with alpha particles? - Chadwick's experiment) ....... just thinking out loud ......

[Roach]

Just to throw another spanner in the works... what about when the Stargate is turned by hand? Where was the power coming from then?

[shu_hunter]

the inner ring of the stargate is for manual dialing: it's for stargates without a dhd. i really have no idea how the stargate's powered then. maybe the goa'uld did something behind their slave's backs to power it.
But that is a very good point.

~Shu Hunter
:upto: stargate fan{atic}

[PTeppic]

Originally posted by Roach
Just to throw another spanner in the works... what about when the Stargate is turned by hand? Where was the power coming from then?

We have seen that (e.g. "Nemesis") that a gate stores sufficient charge for a single out-going wormhole. :eek7: However, we have also seen many episodes ("Torment of Tantalus", "1969, ""New Ground" etc.) where they have to wire up some electric or naq reactor power source for a wormhole. :errrr: