Knightly's New Toy!

[knightly]

Taxes came... we paid a bunch of bills and awarded ourselves with a new toy.


Here's a frame from "An Idiot Abroad" on the newest addition to my home theatre. My DVD/VHS collection are on the right and the two bright spots at the bottom of the frame are the IR lights at the corners of the Wii sensor bar.


The resulting image measures 90" x 51" (103.5" diagonal) and makes Wii bowling EXTREMELY interactive! This is golf the other night with my son

Next I build the screen for it so it looks even better!

 

[wheatgrinder]

awesome fun! What hardware is it?

 

[Ernest Worthing]

Thats is really cool and im a bit jealous! But in a good way! Err, jealous happily for you!

But Wii Golf, cmon! Play Wii tennis or something! Hehehe. Btw, im the unofficial Wii tennis champion of Spain. Now that im in the states, new challengers are welcome

 

[knightly]

Vivitek D511
Direct TV (HD)
Blu-ray (yes, I bought one, and I've previously said I'm not sold on them yet, but hey, it's got a shiny new HDMI connection and optical surround over TOSLINK to my big 5.1 system )

 

[Tinalera]

Very Nice Knightly! Enjoy!

 

[NickClapper]

Yay for Idiot Abroad!



(...and the big screen thing...)

 

[gooberman]

That is sweet.

 

[indietalk]

Next I build the screen for it so it looks even better!

http://www.paintonscreen.com/

 

[knightly]

http://www.paintonscreen.com/

I'd love to, but the wall where I'm projecting has a textured paint treatment, so it currently has all kinds of swishy lines in the image... I have a HUGE projector screen from a large auditorium classroom that I got for free (the rolly bit broke)... I'm going to frame it like a canvas on 2x2s and mount it on the wall

 

[SinEater]

I have a HUGE projector screen from a large auditorium classroom that I got for free (the rolly bit broke)... I'm going to frame it like a canvas on 2x2s and mount it on the wall

I'd highly suggest building an outer frame around the screen wrapped in black velveteen cloth. Surrounding the image in black enhances the perceived contrast of the image. The reason I suggest the cloth is that a black painted frame will still reflect light, whereas the cloth absorbs it.

 

[spinner]

Taxes are bad, tax returns are great! That's how I got my iMac.


-- spinner

 

[Papertwinproductions]

Brilliant.

I'd never have believed Karl Pilkington would be appreciated across the pond. Kudos.

 

[knightly]

I'd highly suggest building an outer frame around the screen wrapped in black velveteen cloth. Surrounding the image in black enhances the perceived contrast of the image. The reason I suggest the cloth is that a black painted frame will still reflect light, whereas the cloth absorbs it.

Good call, thank you

and Papertwin, I'd been introduced to him on Ricky Gervais' podcasts before this show and thought he was marvelously brilliant. He seems wonderfully unencumbered by his "shut up filter".

 

[sonnyboo]

Looks like a kick ass home theater set up

 

[wheatgrinder]

yeah, tax refunds, nothing makes me feel all warm and fuzzy like knowing that I gave my government an interest free loan!

 

[Papertwinproductions]

Good call, thank you

and Papertwin, I'd been introduced to him on Ricky Gervais' podcasts before this show and thought he was marvelously brilliant. He seems wonderfully unencumbered by his "shut up filter".

Most definitely. He's a good guy, and he, Ricky & Steve thrive on the Podcasts.

 

[knightly]

yeah, tax refunds, nothing makes me feel all warm and fuzzy like knowing that I gave my government an interest free loan!

I'm reminded of the "What have the Romans ever done for us!" discussion in "Life of Brian" here

 

[mad_hatter]

"Congress Tart!"

"How, on earth, could you possibly slip that into a conversation?"

I love Karl Pilkington.

 

[Papertwinproductions]

"[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful."

 

[knightly]

The transparent fish bit in Peru got rewound a couple of times. "They're so transparent even they don't know they exist... I'd point them out to you, but you can't see them."