My first RealD setup
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2010 6:59 pm
Just wanted to share with everyone my pleasure after just finishing putting together a RealD 3D setup in my home.
Now it's not perfect, as I had a very small budget but I'm pretty pleased with the results as a first attempt. I really wanted to see if I could get something working with my two projectors as I'm happy with my DLP projector and shutter glasses 3D setup. In the end I spent around £40 on all of the materials.
What brought about the opportunity to make one was the fact that recently, a friend of mine gave me some silver polyurethane fabric to test polarised 3D on and to my surprise, it worked really well. The only problem was that the fabric did have lots of wrinkles and creases in but I was confident that they could be ironed and stretched out. So today, I spent 6 hours buying materials and building a frame. I cut 5 pieces of wood and using L shaped brackets and screws, created a frame size of 66" x 50" which gave me a 16:9 diagonal screen of about 70". After creating the frame, I used a staple gun to stretch the fabric over it. It was great to see the material stretching and flattening out as I did this. I'd previously ironed the reverse side of it in an attempt to get rid of any wrinkles and creases etc. Finally, with the material nicely stapled into place and looking nice and flat, I put the screen up onto the wall using a couple of mounts to rest it on. For the projection, I was using a Panasonic AE900 LCD and the Infocus X1 DLP. I know that ideally I should have the exact same projector but I have to make use of what I have. I set them both to 1024 x 768 60 Hz and dual output in Stereoscopic player. I was just using the lens from a pair of RealD glasses taped onto each projector lens. I aligned the two superimposed images using the desktop icons as a guideline, put on my glasses and there for the first time I could see 3D using my RealD glasses. There was some slight ghosting on one image but overall the effect was really good. Not quite as good as the shutter glasses and DLP 3D but very watchable nonetheless. Blacks are definately better on the silver screen and with a bit of tweaking I managed to get each image to look almost identical in colour and brightess too. I like the fact that the RealD glasses are so easy to wear and take off etc. I kept forgetting that I was wearing them and kept looking out for the wire of my shutter glasses...lol.
So overall, for £40 I'm very pleased with my first RealD setup. For that cost, I've got a 70" widescreen that, apart from some slight ghosting, has a decent 3D image that I can view with my RealD glasses.
Gae43
Now it's not perfect, as I had a very small budget but I'm pretty pleased with the results as a first attempt. I really wanted to see if I could get something working with my two projectors as I'm happy with my DLP projector and shutter glasses 3D setup. In the end I spent around £40 on all of the materials.
What brought about the opportunity to make one was the fact that recently, a friend of mine gave me some silver polyurethane fabric to test polarised 3D on and to my surprise, it worked really well. The only problem was that the fabric did have lots of wrinkles and creases in but I was confident that they could be ironed and stretched out. So today, I spent 6 hours buying materials and building a frame. I cut 5 pieces of wood and using L shaped brackets and screws, created a frame size of 66" x 50" which gave me a 16:9 diagonal screen of about 70". After creating the frame, I used a staple gun to stretch the fabric over it. It was great to see the material stretching and flattening out as I did this. I'd previously ironed the reverse side of it in an attempt to get rid of any wrinkles and creases etc. Finally, with the material nicely stapled into place and looking nice and flat, I put the screen up onto the wall using a couple of mounts to rest it on. For the projection, I was using a Panasonic AE900 LCD and the Infocus X1 DLP. I know that ideally I should have the exact same projector but I have to make use of what I have. I set them both to 1024 x 768 60 Hz and dual output in Stereoscopic player. I was just using the lens from a pair of RealD glasses taped onto each projector lens. I aligned the two superimposed images using the desktop icons as a guideline, put on my glasses and there for the first time I could see 3D using my RealD glasses. There was some slight ghosting on one image but overall the effect was really good. Not quite as good as the shutter glasses and DLP 3D but very watchable nonetheless. Blacks are definately better on the silver screen and with a bit of tweaking I managed to get each image to look almost identical in colour and brightess too. I like the fact that the RealD glasses are so easy to wear and take off etc. I kept forgetting that I was wearing them and kept looking out for the wire of my shutter glasses...lol.
So overall, for £40 I'm very pleased with my first RealD setup. For that cost, I've got a 70" widescreen that, apart from some slight ghosting, has a decent 3D image that I can view with my RealD glasses.
Gae43