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Like now, I live in a bachelor pad. Although my lava lamp and plasma sphere are put away at the moment. I have a Himalayan Salt Lamp out, in the rotation.
By quite a bit, that pic is about 20 years old. That is a naturally colored parrotlet, and my first one, Puck, named after the mischievous fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Puck is the Subatomic Birdicle in my YTMNDs of that style. (There were a number of them, non-LazyTown.) Skittles is a turquoise mutation and Twisker is a blue mutation, neither found in nature.
You can't find what online? Episodes to watch?
And thanks. Yes those range from .22LR to .50 BMG, pretty much every caliber people shoot. Found them all over time at the shooting range, on the ground. Well except for my own calibers of course. 22LR for the Ruger, .40 ACP for the Glock 22, 5.56mm for the AR-15.l i t t l es t e p h e r sComment
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That was a Samsung 50" 720P DLP TV. Cost me about 4 grand in 2003 dollars if I recall.
DLP was a truly amazing technology and the best HD of the time, when HDTV meant either 1080i or 720p. Plasma TVs were thinner and could be hung up like a picture, but got burn-in, and LCD TV's (rear projection, like DLP) could not make true blacks, only dark greys. DLPs had the better image quality and contrast compared to LCDs and did not suffer from burn-in. That 50" TV weighed about 60 pounds, which sounds heavy today compared to these LED or whatever they are TVs we have now, but was 5 times lighter than the previous rear projection technology, CRT, which would have been around 300-400 lbs for a 50" TV if I recall correctly. A 50" plasma was about 100 pounds.
Sold that TV one mosquitoey night (loading it on his truck was a pain - clouds of them) for, I think, $100 in 2015 as I recall. Technology ages like milk. The home theater receiver had long since been destroyed by a cat peeing on it, and I got rid of the surround sound speakers and stands.
Home theater was fun for awhile but in this building I think it would bother the neighbors if I blasted movies like that. Not like the old concrete apartment I used to live in where I could really crank the helicopter attack scene from Apocalypse Now and the downstairs neighbor did not hear a thing (I asked).
Not that I really sit around and watch movies anymore like I used to.
Good video showing how the micromirrors and the color wheel worked.
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My cousins had a built-in home theater setup when I visited 15+ years ago. I remember that it was a flatscreen, not a CRT, but I didnโt know what technology it was. Maybe it was a DLP too. It stood out to me because it must have been a massive investment when it was new, but even back then it seemed outdated. I thought about it not too long ago when I heard of a coworkerโs new 80โ TV: he could carry it back in his SUV or have it delivered and set it up himself, and might not be out even a thousand bucks.Comment
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Is a home theater setup just a massive TV and a bunch of DVDs in your living room or is it more distinguished then that..?sportacus10.lazytown.eu / okdvd.neocities.orgComment
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To go chuft-mode on you for a moment, when I was a kid TVs looked like this:
Itโs a Cathode-ray tube, or CRT, which is the same technology that TVs used going all the way back to the 1950s. They make a loud, very high-pitched whine which kids can hear but adults mostly canโt. They were box shaped and incredibly heavy, and most families would have one about this size, maybe a bit larger. Really big oneโs didnโt even exist.
Nowadays many people have 80โ or even larger TVs in their living room, but back then if you wanted something bigger than an oversized computer monitor you would have to get an expensive projector and have a large enough surface to project onto, and then if youโre doing all that you should probably get a nice sound system to go with it: In other words a little movie theater in your own home.
Most people didnโt have anything like this, so it was kind of unique if you knew someone who did. By the time my cousins remodeled and added their home theater there were the other TV technologies which chuft mentioned, like LCD and DLP, which allowed TVs to get larger, although large ones were still quite expensive and rare. Theirs wasnโt much larger than what most people have today, but it was so thick and heavy it had to be built into the wall as a simi-permanent fixture of the house.
Nowadays massive LED TVs are relatively extremely cheap and I donโt think the term home theater gets thrown around that often. But if someone says they have one they probably mean they have a nice sound system, since the sound systems cost more than the TVs now. Most people skimp on the sound and watch movies on their massive TVs using the horrible built in speakers.Comment
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interesting.. i also remember reading at the time computer screens were about the size of a crt. ech! i'd have to watch movies in 4:3.. sinful
i think the sound thingy is because most movie-tv watchers only care about the visuals, but some people care about the music more, but i'd say its a mix of both. that's why i like watching a specific cut/dub of certain films.. for most 1980s asian action movies, lots of people will say go for the original cut, but i like going for the export cuts. sometimes the music is better + the dubbing is good too.
okay sorry for the off-topic dubbing talk
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One more for scale
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that. is. AWESOME. simply awesome.
now i want a theater room to watch all my john woo and sammo hung movies on
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