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There are 2560p projectors also available. (about $125k plus lens) http://bssc.sel.sony.com/BroadcastandBusiness/DisplayModel?m=10007&p=12&sp=96&id=85495 There is one of these on demo at abtelectronics on a 20 foot screen with all the room lights on. Very impressive. 8 inch exhaust tube for the massive amount of heat generated. used in the high end digital movie theaters, with massive hard disks downloaded off of highly encrypted satellite feeds. Double D5 resolution. There is only one camera that can record this, and it is still shipping in beta versions only (about $80k with lens) http://www.red.com/cameras I can't see any new consumer standard in 20 years or more that is going to be better than 1080p.

Liquid crystal on silicon. Also known as reflective lcd (as opposed to transmissive). Sony and JVC are the only ones currently doing this. Sony has both front projectors (vw50,vw60,vw100,vw200) and single piece rear projectors. JVC just released the RS2 which is a front projector. JVC stopped making a single piece rear projector last year. Absoutely fabulous pictures. The front projectors require continuous tweeking to maintain perfect picture. Shading, gamma, and adjustment of the 1/4 wave plates. i made a lot of money writing software that does this automatically. So i'm pretty picky when it comes to making things absolutely perfect. Still in addition to light bulbs these things really do deteriorate over time, and really are not able to be made perfect after about 5 to 6 years. By which time they are worth absolutely nothing anyway. And issues with dust are still a big problem.

That is no way to do low impedance headphones, with one winding completely unterminated. Needs to be wired with a switch that puts both secondaries in parallel for low impedance phones.

I've gone thru every single version of burn up or burn thru technology. Don't believe much of what you read. Plasma's do in fact still exhibit burn effects, especially when you push the contrast to get the absolute best picture. Newer ones are much better at this, but burn in is still noticeable. Current best technology is the 5 wavelength backlight 120hz lcd panels, ala the top of the line sharp's. CR's way into the 15k range. Trailing certainly shows up on the cheaper models of many companies. But not with the sharps. Although some sets do show some banding (the old 45 inch version) Many people see rainbows on single chip DLP machines, both front and rear projection. Just like the lcd versions (ala sony) they all use a UHP projection lamp, and this is clearly a replaceable part. And an expensive replaceable part. With varied lifetimes, as low as 500 hours to about a max of 3000 hours. Many devices both lcd and dlp use organic light filters/wheels, and these things also deteriorate over time. The holy grail of front projection is not here yet for home use. In my opinion after burning thru 14 different front projectors (lcd, dila, lightvalve) and having the blue filter get trashed, shading issues etc what i want is a 3 chip dlp projector with 1920 x 1080. With dichroic glass filters. Then the only burn up item will be the bulb. We are about 3 more years away from led solid state light sources. The same kind of sources that will be showing up in a few expensive cars as the headlights in 2009.

6sn7 is a 8 pin octal. 6gu7 is a 9 pin miniature. You will need an adapter to run a 6gu7 in a 6sn7 socket.

if you people want something kickass you can get this http://eshop.diyclub.biz/product_info.php?cPath=85_221&products_id=451 only $530. 256 steps. remote controlled. fully balanced. kind of big though.

So in this politically correct society we now all live in, a moron as in 1. A stupid person; a dolt. 2. Psychology A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive. is considered to be unacceptable. I'm sure that there may be acceptable ways to say the same thing, but that is not the point. Now i have called Jude a Maroon. Which by many definitions is also considered offensive. My definition comes from the bugs bunny page on wikipedia, which has since been deleted. 1) A person who acts like a Moron when they clearly are NOT so. Jude like him or hate him is clearly a person of above average intelligence. So what (politically correct term) do you call someone that runs a major website with great influence that has no hot failover capabilities and no backups? It is clear that this is going to cost Jude huge and in many different ways for a significant amount of time. And it is not necessarily over yet either. Will jude learn from this, i certainly think so.

Buy a 10 foot C band dish at closeout pricing. You will have enough material for years.

That was then. This is now. I did some consulting for IRI about 20 years ago. They had a xerox that was something like 30 feet long and did 500 copies a minute. An easy $500k

quoting grawk's picture Nope. Way better than those. I could post a picture, but i would definitely get in trouble.

You have no idea. I continue to age, and they all stay 18 to 22 years old. Its distracting I tell you.

There is a very intelligent grad student here with an absolutely amazing rack. On more than one occasion now, when she is in the mood she wears name tags, one on each breast. Usually followed by the line "you are going to stare at them anyway, at least now you know their names"

How much for the ray samuels polish very large breast version?

The small advents are 4 ohms or less, and are known to piss off many low powered amplifiers.

OK,OK. I just figured out a way to cut the number of fillament transformers, thus balancing the two tubes of one channel together such that the reactance of the transformer no longer matters and a one pot hum canceling thing. Will post schematic in the next couple of days. Need to go synthesize the thing to make sure it really works as intended. So who is going to build one?

Certainly true, but when i walked into my parents house wearing the thing one day, my father realized i had made it, and treated me a little differently after that. The patek stays in the safety deposit box. I'm scared to wear it.

I guess i'm not that old. I paid $4500 for my rolex in 1985 all in an effort to compete with my father. Trying to compete against a patek grand complication is not easy.

My oyster president is 27 years old, only cleaned once, and has also been bashed and scraped. Not a single mark on it. I also dive with it, 100 feet or more, and never a leak either.

Rolex is more like the krell of audio. Built like a tank. Never breaks. No new designs in 30 years. Patek certainly makes a fine watch, but only the very simple and ultra complicated ones are actually 100% patek. Many of the watches in the middle use eta or zenith mechanisms. Their moonphase perpetual complication uses the front dial set from another manufacturer. In fact IWC, Zenith,Blancpain and Patek use many of the same parts. If you want the B&O of watches get a ulysse nardin freak. They break real easy, just like many of the B&O pieces.

Yeah, i know. Too much competition forces a crap low end product. Too many employees at EMC these days, going to have to downsize considerably. In a few years you are going to see lots of raid boxes built from solid state with ultra high speed side channel backup.

See every once in a while billy actually shows his brain has been plugged in and the batteries are fully charged.

Dan and Zanth were the only moderators over there with any brains. I talked to zanth only once and he seemed quite reasonable. However he is getting (or has finally gotten) a Ph.D in mathematics, so he clearly must be insane. He is in the wrong country to turn into Dr. Atomic

Not true. Ray would have absolutely no idea how to do the multi voltage switcher. And certainly not in that physical size.

If anyone knows of a black friday price on a panasonic dw10000 i would really like to know. I need a new projector for the media room, and i'm tired of dila's for that purpose. Short throw lens please.

Neon sign transformer and lots of small thin hard to see wires around the edges of the balcony. Definitely won't kill them, but will certainly get their attention.