The XG135 has landed
John Robinson
I posted here last week that I was buying an NEC XG135 projector.
Well, I got it home yesterday afternoon. I bought it from a guy in
Sydney (same guy I bought the 9PG off), and he was kind enough to meet
me half way by driving down to Wagga Wagga, to meet me at a friends
house. We met at Marks place at about 2:30 on Saturday, and then Mark
and I spent a few hours playing around with it. We hooked it up to
Marks HTPC, first of all at 576p. Scan lines were well evident at this
resolution, so we reconverged at 940p, that was much better!
This projector is a breeze to set up, much easier than the 9PG. It has
adjustments for everything!
My wife and I left Wagga Wagga on Sunday morning, and got home to
Melbourne by about 2:30pm. I had a much needed coffee, and then we
lugged the unit inside and I started setting it up. I played around
for ages getting it lined up square and level to the screen, and then
manually converging the lenses. I spent a fair bit of time getting the
focus and astigmatism adjustments right, and then I started
convergence. I started with 1152i from the DGTEC. It's really easy to
converge this thing without the need to use the point adjustment. The
only problem that I had was that 1152 had the bottom of the image
clipped off, regardless of position or image size. The image was well
within the raster, so I couldn’t figure out what was going on. I tried
1080i, and I had that looking really good within a matter of minutes,
no clipping on this image.
The image is amazingly clear and detailed. I can't wait to see HTDV on
it today!. My quadscan will get here by the end of the week hopefully,
so I'll be able to set it up to either triple or quadruple, I'll
converge both and see which look best. I may well end up tripling PAL,
and quadrupling NTSC.
The green tube has a big logo burnt into the phosphor, though the red
and blue tubes are clear. It is fairly eveident during bright scenes,
but not noticible during dim to normal scenes. The projector came with
3 brand new tubes in their boxes that I will eventually install, but
I'll play around with it like it is for a few weeks first.
Bathurst is on next week, I can't wait!
Regards
John
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Peter McDonald
>Guys,
>I posted here last week that I was buying an NEC XG135 projector.
may I inquire what sort of $$$ one of these goes for second hand ?
I imagine it is is big bugger, and consequently heavy
are you going to ceiling mount it ? not an easy task I'd guess :-/
/me sheds a tear for the 10HT
[...]
>This projector is a breeze to set up, much easier than the 9PG. It has
>adjustments for everything!
Cool.
[...]
>The image is amazingly clear and detailed. I can't wait to see HTDV on
I'm jealous already :-)
[...]
Be sure to let us know when you update your website with new pictures
of the new beastie :-)
Enjoy !
Cheers ... Peter
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Australia. pm...@cs.rmit.edu.au (+613)9925-3783 http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~pmcd/
John Robinson
wrote:
>>I posted here last week that I was buying an NEC XG135 projector.
>
>may I inquire what sort of $$$ one of these goes for second hand ?
>
About $8k to $10k seems to be the going rate for a second hand unit,
but they are very hard to come by, I was just extremely lucky.
>I imagine it is is big bugger, and consequently heavy
>
>are you going to ceiling mount it ? not an easy task I'd guess :-/
It is comparitively small what you compare it to projectors of similar
specifications. It weighs about 65kg, and is about 600mm x 750mm x
300mm. I will ceiling mount it eventually, but at the moment it is
just sitting on a coffee table in the HT room.
>
>/me sheds a tear for the 10HT
Don't worry, It will be going to a good home :-)
>Be sure to let us know when you update your website with new pictures
>of the new beastie :-)
>
Will do, thanks!
Regards
John
>Enjoy !
>
>Cheers ... Peter
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Peter
My Quadscan was a bit of a bitch at the start but a couple of mode and full
resets got it absolutly purring.
The remote is a little gumby but is not really required once you select your
prefered scale and res.
You are gonna have some fun with your new combo.
If you need some tips on the quad just pop me a mail to the bigpond address.
My Quad is so stable I actually switch mine from the amp output and never
have to touch it day to day.
Peter
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"John Robinson" <jrobboS...@bigpond.net.au> wrote