TV room expansion ideas

[Spawn of Sephiroth]

Ok, so at the beginning of the year, me and the wife plan on taking an extra room in our house and turning it into a theater style room. I seen some really cool ideas online, and so I'm gonna put a plan together for. But a question I wanna ask is part of it we are planning on either getting a huge 70-80" tv for the room or looking into getting a HD projector for a white screen on a wall, theater style that we can plug the blu-ray player up to. Which one would be a better way to go and what kind of projector does anyone recommend?

[sharkythesharkdogg]

I'm no expert, but a lot of the new projectors I've seen are really nice and not as expensive to keep even compared to a few years ago.

I know a guy who had one, and one advantage is that it had a pretty large screen size combined with portability.

He brought it with him when we were at a race and we were using it at the track to play movies on the side of our white trailer. That was a neat option.

[Araciel]

this:

Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 1080p Projector (8345) : Home Theatre Projectors - Best Buy Canada

Is what I'm getting...It's awesome value.

[GhandiOwnsYou]

Is there still concern with the issue of bulb life in projectors? I haven't looked into them in a while, but I remember a few years ago the big hazard was that most of them had incredibly expensive bulbs that only lasted for a few hundred hours. You got in on the cheap, but if you spent any real time watching movies you would quickly stack up a good chunk of change in replacement bulbs.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

^^^

That's what I was referring to before. I don't know for sure, but I think they've improved on that issue.

[Araciel]

Advertised approximate life: 4000 hrs

That's 11 hrs a day if you run it every day for a year.

[Shorty]

I've personally always wanted a projector with a dropdown screen, so I would go with that if I were you.

The bulbs are expensive to replace, but not nearly as expensive if something happens to your 70" tv.

[Araciel]

Not to mention the screen I'm lookin' at will be 100".