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Old Dec 29, 2007 | 05:29 PM
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Default Should I do it?

I have a 36" TV in my sitting room which I love. Yes it's a big clumsy CRT and not a spangly LCD or plasma, but a) they cost a lot and b) I only watch SD stuff and honestly, SD TV, like Freeview, looks better on a CRT than a plasma...



Anyway, I reckon I would like to see movies, from PC and on DVD, on a much bigger screen... Whilst I love my TV and don't want to change it, and whilst I think generally it's a good size, and looks great for TV stuff, I would love to see films MUCH bigger

So I thought about hatching a budget projector set up

Brought home a large bit of card from work this eve that only needed a few CM chopping off it to make it the desired size - which is 150cm (w) by 84cm (H) which equels 67" diagonal

Looks like this;





So I then mocked it up with a perfect 1.85:1 (more or less a perfect 16:9 aspect ratio) film cell





Reckon I should do it?

Whats a half decent LCD/DLP data projector I can pick up second hand for a hundred quid or two?
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