Re:FBI warns that connected televisions can provide hackers ...
by lostgame on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @03:09PM
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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.
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.