Excellent score, Tim. It's always good when you can get something like that projection TV, and especially a Sony set, for so little money. The distance required between the projector and the screen (six feet, as you mentioned) demands that you have a very large area in which to put the TV. I could not hope to have a projection set in my apartment, as the place is much too small. I could have gotten, say, a 32-inch flat screen, but I've had 19-inch sets most of my life (except for a couple of 13-inch color sets in the '80s) so I stuck with 19" when I decided to go flat-screen in 2011.
BTW, I noticed in two of your pics of your HT installation that your cat was trying to get into the act as well--well, in one of the pictures, anyway (the one showing your complete home theater). My kitty will sit on the floor in front of my 19-inch flat screen every once in a great while, but most of the time, when I am watching TV or reading, she lays on one armrest of my rather large reclining chair in front of the set.
BTW (2): I can't figure out, either, why there would be so much smoke coming from underneath your TV if the service switch was just stuck. Maybe that switch is in a position such that it can short a high-voltage point in the set if it sticks between positions. In any event, you were very fortunate you caught the problem in time, or you might have had a fire on your hands in very short order.
