TV vs. projection: Your TV is too tiny (Albuquerque Journal)
(Credit: Stewart Filmscreen)
Despite reviewing TVs for a living, I don’t actually own a TV. The last TV I
bought was a 27-inch CRT, in the summer of 2000.
Instead, I do all my TV and movie watching on a 103-inch screen. It’s epic. It
also doesn’t have to cost a lot of money, nor is it difficult to set up.
The pros and cons of projection (and why you really, really want it), after
the jump.
Front projection is a two-piece system: a projector that creates the image,
and a screen that reflects it. Being in two pieces often gives people
complexity agita, but in reality projectors are exceedingly simple to setup.
There are three technology types with front projection: DLP, LCD, and LCOS.
LCD is basically the same technology as flat-panel TVs. Typically, LCD
projectors are on the lower end of the price spectrum. They don’t quite offer
the picture quality of the better DLP and LCOS projectors, but they’ve come a
long way in the past few years. Mitsubishi and Epson, specifically, offer some
excellent LCD-based front projectors.
DLP, or Digital Light Processing, uses small chips with millions of tiny
mirrors. They range in …
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