Being a bit odd, I was dreaming about the SimRoom last night and I thought it would be interesting to have an even wider screen as in racing sims it's quite important to see what is happening on the sides rather than what is going on above your car or under the bonnet/hood (leave that to the virtual mechanics!). As far as I know there aren't many manufacturers of projectors capable of displaying 2.35:1 ratio screens so I had a look for lenses and there seem to be quiet a few lenses on the market for this purpose. Amongst others I came across Prismasonic and their cheapest lens for this purpose is the H400-series and it will do just this for you. They also have a calculator on their site that allows you to have a look how the lens will adjust projected image dimensions for a number of projectors.So far, both the calculators I've found for optional lens and for calculating throw distance and screens sizes have the Sanyo PLV-Z5 which is supporting my case of buying that particular projector. It would probably have been nice to increase the resolution to a 1920x1080 projector - but they cost a lot more than 1280x720 projectors and hopefully the latter resolution is sufficient for this project.
The cheapest Prismasonic lens still costs over 5000 SEK so again, this will be beyond my budget and it is probably aimed at the home cinema boys that also spend more on speaker cables alone than I have allocated for this entire project :)
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Hi Imphy,
I have read your blog and it was very interesting. I like LFS a lot like you, but i haven't time enough to play like i'd like. I will buy an SCM like you want to do and a videoprojector.
I have you read this post from shigeT on Frex /rscnet :
http://forum.rscnet.org/showthread.php?s=9f334bae9a9f9652c22f4734b6d9e902&t=280180&page=5
They will produce "curved projector screen for full covered FOV" :]
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