The heat emission of projectors makes using them as a TV replacement pretty much DOA for me. I throw cult movie nights and recently ditched the projector for a

The heat emission of projectors makes using them as a TV replacement pretty much DOA for me. I throw cult movie nights and recently ditched the projector for a 42” screen - by the time there were 15-20 people in my living room, the heat of the projector made us keep windows open in Canadian winter. Not to mention the usability issues during daylight, which make a projector (there’s a lot of light in my living room) mostly useless 50% of the time. The large black rectangle has its own use - it clearly defines where the screen is occupying space, something you’ve gotta configure for a projector. Unless you are privileged af enough to have a room you can dedicate to a home theatre setup - (in which case, good for you, housing/rent prices here in Toronto make that out of reach for me even as a low triple digit salary individual, four times higher than most of my similarly aged friends) - a projector’s disadvantages far outweigh its benefits. Even if visibility wasn’t a glaring issue, the heat is practically unbearable. Worst idea I’d had was to try it in my bedroom as a TV replacement. :P I went through several models of projectors in an attempt to see if any of them would be tolerable, but no. Large TV’s emit heat as it is; but it’s really like a small heater in a room on low, instead of an industrial scale heater.