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1080p has arrived! January 09 I found an open-box special on a Sharp XVZ-20000 (70% off original list. 15 hours on the bulb.) Now I'm in the home stretch. I now have a full-resolution projector with digital inputs. Before, my Blu-ray discs went from 1920x1080 pixel, 24 frame per second, digital images to 1080i, 60 field per second analog images out of the player to the scaler. There is was converted back to digital, deinterlaced, scaled to 720p, then converted back to analog. It then went to the projector, where is was converted back to digital and sent to the DMD chip and then on to the screen. Whew! Also, I got the Harmony 890 to do almost everything I want. With some help from my coworker Mike I cut a block of wood and got a couple of model airplane pushrods and made a stand for my RF extender. It now fits in the equipment rack door perfectly and can control all the devices. I ran one of the IR extenders to the projector, making the run with a 1/8"extention audio cable I got from Radio Shack. I figured out I had to add a 10-second delay to the Crystalio in the Harmony software to give it enough time to boot up. Lastly, I figured out how to use the macros to get it to switch inputs. The only two things remaining are light control (I may have to switch the Lutron dimmers for Z-Wave capable Levitons.) and aspect ratio control. I'll have to look into using output profiles in the Crystalio.
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