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NOS2Go4Me,Jan 12 2006, 06:13 AM Wrote:I had a suggestion all lined up, it's the setup I'll be doing for us in the spring: InFocus Screenplay SP5000 projector (720p/1080i native), pull-down screen, ceiling mount. The cost actually comes in at a tad over $2000 IIRC, and it blows away anything else you can throw at it.

SVT Dean actually has this exact same setup.

To be honest, I wasn't sold on projectors or InFocus till I did the following thing last February:

Took an InFocus LP230 to the Inco Cavern at Science North in Sudbury when our company's president made a presentation to the Ontario Mining Association. Set it up, fired up the laptop, tested the display @ 1024x768... the projected image was over 120" wide and crystal clear. EVERYTHING looked as it should have on the 15.4" LCD display on the laptop.

I was stunned. Sara got to see this presentation as well. No wonder she completely supports the projector-at-home idea.
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I looked into getting a projector, but I have nowhere to project the image. And besides, how am I supposed to watch it in bright lighting conditions?

Overall, I think the LCD will be better for my applications in the long run. I do lots of gaming, and don't need to be worried about burn-in. Those 'anti burn in' features didn't work on my Plasma. The LCD seems to already be better than the plasma I owned, and I have a better chance of fixing something that's wrong when the LCD breaks down.

Darkpuppet - The dead pixels are black, not stuck. There's maybe 3 or 4, so it's nothing too horrible.