Check out this home theater deal
 

http://maxtheater.com/

Thing only cost $20 and it projects a 175 inch display onto the wall or wherever you want just from your TV. Read a bunch of good things about it and just ordered one.

I'll go to homedepot or somewhere and get a movie screne to project it on, should be tight as hell for movies and whatnot.

Anything thats $20 cant be that great

You have a better chance of getting a free ipod.

My roommate actually is the one that ordered it, should be here in a few days. I'll let you know how good it actually is.

Damn... just noticed this post... oh well, we all must be thinking electronics tonight... :)

I find people fall for this all too often. All it does is magnify a 13 inch TV to a big projector screen. now think about this for a second. A 27 inch normaly has 500 scan lines, how many do you think a basic 13 inch has?.. roughly 270 to 300 depending on the tube used. Now blow that up 13.46 times. That's one effective scan line every half inch. You would have to stand about 13 feet away to make anything out.

Now is this going to produce a clear image?

Figure it out :)

The funny thing is, that there are a few, and I mean very few products out there that have a similar outlandish concept, that actually work.


This one, I am not si sure about.

But if it works, please let us know.

I've seen something like this before... basically what it has is a large lens that magnafies the image of an existing TV set. There's a homebrew version that uses the lens from a large magnifying glass (the old round type).

There's 2 main problems with it:

1) Focus can be a bitch, largely depending on the distance of the TV to the lens and from the lens to the wall. Presumably this product would have some sane sort of way to focus the light.

2) Brightness. You have the same amount of light coming from your TV, but now it's spread out across much more area. If your viewing room is very dark, your TV has the ability to be particularly bright without washing out, or you keep the screen to small levels of visual expansion you'll have tolerable result.

Post when you know how it works. Maybe I'll buy one via your referral if it turns out tolerable. :thumbsup