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Peench · 11-28-2006, 02:55 PM

I was at a meeting last night and there were a couple of engineers giving a presentation. They had a tiny little Mitsubishi DLP projector. Someone walked in front of the screen and for some reason I saw him covered in rainbows. It was very odd. Then I looked towards the projector and saw the rainbows. I tried to reproduce the effect a couple of times and couldn't. I had never seen them before, but for some reason I saw them at that time. Maybe my eyes/mind were being lazy and I saw them, but once I focused up on trying to see them I couldn't?

Anyway, it was weird and interesting that I was able to see them. I imagine on that little portable projector the 3 color wheel wasn't spinning very fast and made it easy to see them.

SpOoNmAn · 11-28-2006, 03:00 PM

LOL, a post about seeing rainbows. I didnt know what to expect when opening this.

Im still waiting to see them, I take that back. I hope I never do but if it happens, Ill be sure to chime in. I doubt I ever will seeing as I never saw them on even 1st gen projectors

Jon Liu · 11-28-2006, 03:21 PM

yeah, once you see them, I think you're always looking for them... that's kind of the problem I found with myself. It's starting to become a complete non-issue with the latest DLP's though!

ProPain · 11-28-2006, 03:34 PM

I see dead people.

Peench · 11-28-2006, 04:08 PM

Haha.. I've never seen them on anything else before. Must been a combination of a bunch of random things really. I've never seen them on other projectors of my DLP TV so perhaps I'll never see them again.

BrewCityUpstart · 11-28-2006, 10:24 PM

Maybe the dude was gay.

D_Litch · 11-28-2006, 10:26 PM

Did you also see Keezy with a polok?

ProPain · 11-29-2006, 08:05 AM

For those who are not familiar with the rainbow effect of dlp, here is an example:

http://www.dietforum.net/balagee/projected/rainbow.html

ZoomZoom71 · 11-29-2006, 08:06 AM

That hurts my eyes!

D_Litch · 11-29-2006, 08:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ProPain

For those who are not familiar with the rainbow effect of dlp, here is an example:

http://www.dietforum.net/balagee/projected/rainbow.html

I was wondering what exactly a rainbow was. Thanks for the link.

Wondermonkey · 11-29-2006, 08:11 AM

I stared at the DLP we bought for hours in the store trying to find rainbows. I didn't see any, even when the 360 was hooked up to it. I did however see a Unicorn, and it granted me three wishes, so the day wasn't a total bust.

KEEZY · 11-29-2006, 08:37 AM

Excellent! How big of a deal was it to hook up the 360 to it?

Wondermonkey · 11-29-2006, 08:52 AM

They didn't care because they had one out already on another TV. Circuit City is usually cool like that, despite the fact they let you work there.

The guy was trying to hook it up to the HDMI port and, despite me telling him there are no 360 HDMI cables, he seemed on a mission for a while. Once he realized this though it was easy sailing.

JohnW · 11-29-2006, 09:10 AM

Yeah, I can see them if I keep my head still and move my eyes while watching. Usually see it on light, fast-moving objects over dark bacgrounds.

So much for Star Wars.

Jon Liu · 11-29-2006, 09:24 AM

it was incredibly apparent to me on Sin City.

BrewCityUpstart · 11-29-2006, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wondermonkey2k

I stared at the DLP we bought for hours in the store trying to find rainbows. I didn't see any, even when the 360 was hooked up to it. I did however see a Unicorn, and it granted me three wishes, so the day wasn't a total bust.

tampabuc · 11-29-2006, 10:36 AM

Here's a more extreme example of the Rainbow effect that kept me from even considering upgrading to a micro-display from RP-CRT for many years. This was horrible technology before the faster color wheels came out. 720p only and this...ouch...

ftp://ftp.extremetech.com/pub/extrem...ainbowClip.wmv

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