FP or flat panel advice?

[sanoel]

I am going to be building a house that will have a 22x17 living room with 9' boxed ceilings. I have been eyeballing the 65" Panny Plasma, but have also thought about a much large screen using the Panny 900 projector. I will not have controll of ambient light so i have thought about the DNP supernova screens but dont really know if they are all what they say they are. What i wold like to do is have say a 50" plasma for daytime TV watching and be able to switch to the Projector at night or when i want to watch a DVD at night. I have a Harmony remote and im almost sure i could set it up with different activities to be able to do such a thing. Does anyone do this and if so can you give me some pointers as to how you have it set up or some other routes i can take.

Thanks

 

[mtrycrafts]

I am going to be building a house that will have a 22x17 living room with 9' boxed ceilings. I have been eyeballing the 65" Panny Plasma, but have also thought about a much large screen using the Panny 900 projector. I will not have controll of ambient light so i have thought about the DNP supernova screens but dont really know if they are all what they say they are. What i wold like to do is have say a 50" plasma for daytime TV watching and be able to switch to the Projector at night or when i want to watch a DVD at night. I have a Harmony remote and im almost sure i could set it up with different activities to be able to do such a thing. Does anyone do this and if so can you give me some pointers as to how you have it set up or some other routes i can take.

Thanks

I don't have such a setup but. If you go for two video displays, one for TV the other for movies, or the front projector could be TV after dark? You would need a good video signal from Cable/satellite.
You could send HDMI to the projector and RGB to the flat TV.

 

[RMK!]

Using both displays is very cool. Take a look at my setup (Reversible HT) in the Member Systems thread. With no light control (like my room) you would be limited to only night viewing for the PJ. If you mount the plasma on the wall you could have a hidden motorized ceiling mount screen (easy if the house is not built yet) drop down in front of the Plasma. The connections would be easy (as compared to my reversed speaker situation) and as was suggested, the HDMI from the DVD player and Component from your HD Cable Box would work fine. You could use eithe HDMI, DVI or Component from the cable box to the Plasma.

In my setup I can view either cable or DVD's on either the PJ or the TV (in my case a Rear Projection DLP).

 

[BMXTRIX]

I do a 50" plasma along with a 106" FP in my family room. While I'm not sure of your budget, I did go with a POS plasma (Sampo) and a Panny PT-L300U which I purchased new 3+ years ago. It works very well. The real fun is that the projector is phenomenal on movie nights. It is not a 'everyday' thing, but a piece that is used specifically for the movies and special times. The nice thing is that the good speakers get to be used all the time. So, even if it is a daytime running of The Incredibles for my 2 year old, the sound is killer... He always starts giggling during the THX intros.

106" motorized, tab tensioned screen drops from the 9' ceiling with the touch of a button. The plasma turns OFF, the projector turns ON, and things are good to go. I have component run to everything and use a distribution amplifier to split the component video between plasma and projector.

I strongly recommend it - and I think you would love it. The 65" plasma is cool, but 120" projection is almost 4 times the screen area as that plasma. That's a phenomenal image for the space and reall envelopes you in the movie experience, or the HD running of the game.