Thoughts?

I’ve been using a projector for a while now and can’t go back to the size of TVs.

That said, I do miss being able to watch TV with most of my lights on.

  • tom@lemmy.filmOP
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    1 year ago

    If there are fairy lights, it might affect the color a little bit, depending on the brightness of the projector. This depends on your budget - anything decent should be fine, you just can’t get the cheap $250 Chinese ones. It’s also a solveable problem, since you can adjust the brightness/direction of the fairy lights.

    Having to move and store it would be the biggest concern for me. A projector is easier to pack and unpack, but has the issue of a separate projector screen.

    If you’re able to, say, use one flat wall as a makeshift screen, I’d personally choose the projector.

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      1 year ago

      Thanks so much!

      As for your question, if it’s my main screen, having the quality affected by lighting would be really inconvenient for me. That’s something I could live with where having the projector out IS the activity, but if the activity is something else and the TV is just on then it’s too much mucking around. P

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        1 year ago

        Happy to help! I think it comes down to budget too. If you have $1000 to spend, you can get a 4K projector that can work even with dim lighting. But if you only have $300-400, then you’re starting to look at slight tradeoffs - picture quality might be worse with a projector, but then the screen would be bigger and it would be easier to move around.

        If you know anyone with projectors, you should go try one out and get a feel for the differences!