Projecting onto a wall

[Brad]

So I was cleaning out the downstairs cupboard when I came across a Sony projector I forgot it had. I quickly set it up in the spare room and tried the dc, cube and ps1 on it. Dc thru s-video looks great, ps1 is fine through composite, cube through composite is not so good but I can.dig the wiiu out and.use that with component.

Anyway, I need to set it all up neatly and I'm going to paint the wall (currently q cream colour). What paint should I use? Needs to be cheap. It looked pretty damn good in broad daylight with only very thin curtains reducing the light to be honest but I'm assuming it can do better with alternative paint in the wall.

[Yakumo]

There's actually a special reflective white paint made just for what you are trying to do. I have no idea what brands do it in the UK but I'm sure someone will know.

[dataDave]

I spent five years projecting onto plain white. I wasn't arsed about it being any better as it looked good enough.

[paulus]

Ask over at the AVForums. Theres a specific colour you can have mixed at the big diy shops, something along the lines of "Ice White 451", produces very good results apparently

[QualityChimp]

I Web searched "projector paint" and a couple of AV Forums threads came up.

[Brad]

My concern is the avforums will contain a lot of high spending placebo results that's why I asked here. I'm putting old consoles through it, not blu rays. Put daytona on just before I went to bed (room was dark) and it looked amazing even on the shiny, damaged cream paint. White emulsion should do the job I think.

I can't find a composite cube cable anywhere in the house. There are however a dozen PlayStation composite leads, most of them new. Where have they all come from!?

[Solar]

My concern is the avforums will contain a lot of high spending placebo results that's why I asked here.

Unless you want to spend ?50k+ on the best stuff then you are better off using youtube to find stuff for things like this.

Anyway, I opted for blackout material from Dunelm instead of painting. It is designed to soak up the light and so gives a much better picture than paint does.
For ?15 I have a 120" screen.

[Brad]

That sounds good! Best place to buy?

[Solar]

Dunelm

http://www.dunelm.com/product/blackout-lining-1000001984?searchTerm=blackout

Luckily I have a shop local to me so they just cut me some off a roll to size, it looks like the online store has set sizes only.

Could try Amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blackout-Thermal-Curtain-Lining-Fabric/dp/B00752HCEI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1436097534&sr=8-3&keywords=blackout+lining

[Asura]

My concern is the avforums will contain a lot of high spending placebo results that's why I asked here.

Not surprised other people got there to say this before I saw it.

AVForums is fine if the advice you want involves you importing super-special paint from a place in Japan, which is ?12k per tin, and anything less, even slightly, even MARGINALLY, is UGH TOTALLY UNWATCHABLE HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY SETTLE FOR THAT...

[speedlolita]

Do projectors still have those terrible bulbs?

[samanosuke]

Mecury lamps? The best do, yes. There are LED and laser hybrid projectors but these suffer from lower brightness, washed out colours and no pure white (LED) or great contrast ratio but much lower brightness (laser hybrid).

[speedlolita]

I see. That unpleasant heat though, think I'd rather the lesser image quality.

[Brad]

Dunno what mine is and don't want to. Right now the image reminds me of large screen arcade cabs from back on the day, which is exactly the feeling I'm after. Ignorance is bliss.

[speedlolita]

You mean a Megalo?

Hopefully not like the one in Casino, that one was screwed. haha