Couldn't you use one of those projectors as a huge monitor...?

[KDOG]

You know project it on the wall or something. You could put it on the ceiling above your head facing the wall, etc... whatdya think?

 

[LordSandMan]

Yep, you can. I brought one home from work for a weekend one time. It worked great......Unrealtournament @ 4ftX6ft.............sweet. It also works great for watching DVDs. One thing to keep in mind though is that the bulbs were somewhere around $400 a crack last time I checked 6 months ago. Always be sure to let the fan run for a couple of minutes after you turn the lamp off, otherwise you fry the bulb.

 

[lupin]

Well.. it's good, you get huge display.
but sharpness sucks on those projectors. Just like the cinemas.

Although I think a projector like display, with the sharpness of your monitor can kill your eye easily, so maybe that's why they aren't sharp.

 

[Mark R]

Projectors are very sharp, if you get a good one. I've seen plenty that are absolutely stunning - of course these are the $20,000 ones, so I'd expect them to be good. In fact the picture is so sharp that if you examine it close up, you can see the individual pixels perfectly defined. The only problem with these is the resolution - only 1280x1024, and the fact that it is a fixed resolution, just like LCDs - so if your computer is set to the wrong resolution, text will appear awful.

Also, I'm not quite sure why you say cinema isn't sharp - it is the sharpest moving image display system we currently have - Have you ever walked right up to a cinema screen and looked at the picture when it projected by a top-notch 35 or 70 mm film projector? The level of detail is scarcely believable.

 

[chiwawa626]

at school we have a $5000 kodak projecter, and the text it puts out isnt always clear.

 

[SpeedGod]

we have a really cheap one in school that the teacher station uses. Clarity isn't that good. But hey, its a cheap model, might have been a Toshiba.. Oh well...