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DIY High-Quality XGA Projector for ~$300
ranrub writes "Tom's Hardware Guide posted a guide to building your own XGA LCD projector from parts costing under $300. Major components are an overhead projector and a used 15" LCD screen. They even have a movie of the whole project on site! It's quite bigger and noisier than a standard projector, but most of our living rooms look like electronic junkyards anyway, don't they?"
Sony has a $70k projector that is PERFECT.
But for those of us who cannot afford something like that or even $1k projector, this is perfect.
Now what nerd doesn't have a stack of old laptops that couldn't be used for anything...until now.
15" TFT LCD can be had for less than $300.
keep checking slickdeals.net - they just had a 15" lcd for less than $200. Or check ebay.
Back in the days when there wasn't any video recorders...
You mean video tape recorders. 50 years ago was not so different than 2000, except you used film rather than magnetic tape.
I had this dialog with a friend not too long ago. He was planning a presentation for his wedding and was considering renting a LCD projector. I highly recommended going slides due to its low cost high quality. Unfortunately he wanted to do a Power Point presentation, which would include silly animation. While one could convert Power Point to film using a good easel and movie camera 8mm isn't exactly decent quality, 16mm isn't made anymore, and 35mm would be cost prohibitive.
In 50 years we've gained convenience of not having to pay to develop film, but we have lost a good deal of quality.
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