I have this weird daydream about making my own CRT projector for Laserdisc. Anyone use one?
I love my LD player and I notice that my Laserdiscs are very filmic/cinematic in that they often have the original theater sound mix and the transfer looks a lot like film, you can see the grain and everything. I have a great setup now with a high end Plasma filtered through a high end DVD recorder and then also a CRT TV. But I dream of using a CRT projector with Laserdisc, I can't help but feel like it'd be the ultimate experience.
I see some for sale around me, but one is expensive and more designed for office use, and one is old with worn tubes. I see online about people converting rear projection CRT TVs into projectors and it almost seems like that would be the more pragmatic path forward to find working tubes without dropping crazy money. There are two of the same Sony rear projection CRTs near me, I wish I could get them both and convert both to projectors, I'd obviously take proper safety precautions and I'd love a good carpentry project to create cabinetry for the converted projectors. I'm sure I'd figure out convergence after a couple days of screaming in frustration. Then I'd have two projectors to double up on image for better brightness and make the ultimate LD projector setup.
Except I live in a 1-bedroom apartment, I can't be storing two huge projector cabinets. I probably don't have space to even use them. I could possibly ask my work to let me use some basement space at one of their buildings for a workshop to make them, but who's going to help me transport these things around to actually use them, and why would they? Just another hobby for the hobby addiction but boy if I had nothing but money and time that's what I'd be doing.