Proneous wrote:
being metal fabricator by profession, while you did very good job im not impressed at the frames and its not that big hassle at all, to me at least, just putting things in proportions, also i'd ASSUME, and can't be sure before serious checks confirm this but this can be built for around 50 pound metal + labor i'd guess 3 times that if its pro guy doing it, if its yourself, free? if it were me i'd charge about 200 pounds. which is fair.
But the other thing is, im not getting the deal here, not trolling you at all, its an great project for fun but if im getting the pictures, its completly impractical, the projcs are not nearly in sync they are just horiz leveled but other than that i'd take bezels and not such skewed pic quality.
that just me and im not retracting from the quality job you did there nor from the potential it does have, if possible to properly adjust it.
Thanks for sharing, its the 2nd curious project ive found in these forums.
Its my father who built it and he is an engineer, he's been creating and building things all his life, from the smallest things such as a stop motion armatures to two story houses... he is indeed a professional.
Please let me know why you're not impressed with the frame work as the input would be great and could be considered. I don't find that it needs to be a complicated design, all I wanted when setting out to do this was to make it so that it could be assembled quite easily and for it to be light as possible so that it could be moved and positioned easily even when fully put together, also to try and keep shipping to a reasonable price.
Your suggested pricing is definitely affordable but I would however make no money at all and would end up making bit of a loss. In the end the purpose to a business is to make a bit of money, there would be no point starting otherwise. All the materials, time and effort need to be taken into account, It would have to be worth it for my father and myself, even just a bit of a profit. The dual and single ones will be of course cheaper than the triple and the price will depend on how big the requested size is.
I mentioned that I haven't currently got the software to get the images to sync together yet, so yes as you noticed....It is obviously out of sync. The projectors aren't yet level either, so it looks even worse as you can see, this is only because I've yet to decide how I want my projectors positioned. I don't believe having a setup like this is 'completely impracticable', take a look at other people who have the a similar setup who have the projectors properly positioned and the sync/warp software applied, its a very stunning experience. I prefer a bezeless experience when playing in surround and watching widescreen films that make use of more than just the center display. For me, the bezels in between slightly breaks the immersion, this is a personal opinion of course and I will respect your preference.
Thanks for your interest in this.