Sometimes small systems are plenty
Friday my wife suddenly got the urge to camp. Immediately. All the TT has is the original Group 24 battery, 5w solar to maintain it and a 700w/1500w inverter I've never even run under significant l...
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Continuing to still drift a bit off-topic:
I always want a BR player "everywhere" now because some movies I buy or get as gifts are Blu-Ray. In our RV I usually just use my laptop (powered directly from a 12 volt RV receptacle) for movies by sitting about 4-5 feet from the screen, as it has a 17 inch HD screen and a built-in BR player, but I can take the 26 inch LG LED from the house and use it in the RV on trips. I use TotalMedia Theater 6 software for all video playback on the laptop ... which renders both outstanding HD and upscaling of standard resolution. I have a couple of auxiliary sound systems in the RV that I can pipe either the laptop's or 26 incher's sound through.
BTW, when are all movies - every one - going to be released always in both BR and standard res?? This HD rollout is taking forever. Lower resolutions are now a dinosaur. I even see that some DISH channels have "sponsors" for their HD version. That's ridiculous - all programming should now be only shot and broadcast in HD and HD cameras should be the only type available.
Our 16:9 widescreen home theater reference monitor CRT projection system's bandwidth is capable of rendering up to and including true 720p and true 1080i, which was bleeding edge technology in 1999 when we purchased it. It's images are still spectacular, including rendering of BR in "only" 1080 interlaced. It's downside is needing cleaning of the lens, individual beam re-focusing, and multi-point re-convergence periodically. Every video parameter can be individually optimized via this system's digital control circuits, with many of them being individually adjustable by source - whether it be VHS, Super-VHS, DVD, satellite television, or personal camera video. BTW and FWIW, our overall system even supports high end VHS and Super-VHS image reconstruction (VHS player with Faroudja processing) so we still occasionally watch VHS/Super-VHS movies - IF and ONLY IF they are in widesreen format - not "Reformated to fit your TV" format. I have some (rare) Super-VHS widesreen movies with image quality rivaling that of modern upscaled standard DVD.
OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screen technology looks real promising - as it has for years. It's time is about finally here for us in the masses. I can hardly wait for it be affordable enough so we can carry large roll-up screens along with us in an RV! I'm definitely a fan of the image being composed of individually lit red/blue/green points, which is also what a 3-gun CRT system provides via 3-color sweeps individually modulated horizontally and vertically pixel by pixel. OLED will provide this ... and current point-lit LED screens (if you can find and afford one) kindof simulate it. I'm not a fan of today's current massed produced edge-lit and area-lit LED TVs - they are a (very) good video quality compromise, but nevertheless still fall short. However they do consume less power for RV drycamping use. OLED screens may consume even less power for RV use ... but I'm not sure yet on this.
I apologize for the many off-topic words above ... I think about this stuff when it's raining during RV trips or when the fish aren't biting! :(
I always want a BR player "everywhere" now because some movies I buy or get as gifts are Blu-Ray. In our RV I usually just use my laptop (powered directly from a 12 volt RV receptacle) for movies by sitting about 4-5 feet from the screen, as it has a 17 inch HD screen and a built-in BR player, but I can take the 26 inch LG LED from the house and use it in the RV on trips. I use TotalMedia Theater 6 software for all video playback on the laptop ... which renders both outstanding HD and upscaling of standard resolution. I have a couple of auxiliary sound systems in the RV that I can pipe either the laptop's or 26 incher's sound through.
BTW, when are all movies - every one - going to be released always in both BR and standard res?? This HD rollout is taking forever. Lower resolutions are now a dinosaur. I even see that some DISH channels have "sponsors" for their HD version. That's ridiculous - all programming should now be only shot and broadcast in HD and HD cameras should be the only type available.
Our 16:9 widescreen home theater reference monitor CRT projection system's bandwidth is capable of rendering up to and including true 720p and true 1080i, which was bleeding edge technology in 1999 when we purchased it. It's images are still spectacular, including rendering of BR in "only" 1080 interlaced. It's downside is needing cleaning of the lens, individual beam re-focusing, and multi-point re-convergence periodically. Every video parameter can be individually optimized via this system's digital control circuits, with many of them being individually adjustable by source - whether it be VHS, Super-VHS, DVD, satellite television, or personal camera video. BTW and FWIW, our overall system even supports high end VHS and Super-VHS image reconstruction (VHS player with Faroudja processing) so we still occasionally watch VHS/Super-VHS movies - IF and ONLY IF they are in widesreen format - not "Reformated to fit your TV" format. I have some (rare) Super-VHS widesreen movies with image quality rivaling that of modern upscaled standard DVD.
OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screen technology looks real promising - as it has for years. It's time is about finally here for us in the masses. I can hardly wait for it be affordable enough so we can carry large roll-up screens along with us in an RV! I'm definitely a fan of the image being composed of individually lit red/blue/green points, which is also what a 3-gun CRT system provides via 3-color sweeps individually modulated horizontally and vertically pixel by pixel. OLED will provide this ... and current point-lit LED screens (if you can find and afford one) kindof simulate it. I'm not a fan of today's current massed produced edge-lit and area-lit LED TVs - they are a (very) good video quality compromise, but nevertheless still fall short. However they do consume less power for RV drycamping use. OLED screens may consume even less power for RV use ... but I'm not sure yet on this.
I apologize for the many off-topic words above ... I think about this stuff when it's raining during RV trips or when the fish aren't biting! :(
