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I did the same (but my screen is taller than yours is large :P), but I think there are a few reason why this hasn't seen larger adoption. People like to have t
by carlob 13y ago
I did the same (but my screen is taller than yours is large :P), but I think there are a few reason why this hasn't seen larger adoption.
People like to have their TV on all day long: with a projector you can't, because it won't be very visible in daylight and it will burn through lamps like it's popcorn.
Second point, modern TVs usually have a tuner in, you plug them in and they work. Also you don't need to adjust the image until it's rectangular.
You don't need to have a line of sight for a TV, chairs and people are not an issue.
- sentenza 13y agoYou are right that of course, not everybody has my usage pattern. Since my daughter becomes a mindless, staring zombie whenever a TV is running in her field of vision, we only watch TV late in the evening (for us, a lamp lasts about two years). Before I first set it up, I expected the configuration to be a lot more tedious than it actually was. If you have the computer, some sort of sound system and your TV receiver lying around, all you need is a switch for the different audio sources and you can basically plug it all together. (In my setup, TV does not go through the computer. We don't have Hulu, HBO or Netflix over here.) I'd say about 80% of the work was mounting the beamer to the ceiling and getting the upper hand on the cable mess.
- ams6110 13y agoWith many (most?) cable companies now encrypting even "basic" channels, you need to use their box to watch anything. At that point, you don't need a tuner, unless you're actually receiving over-the-air broadcast TV.