Epson Home Cinema 6100 and Projector Lens Shift

Learn about lens shift on the new Epson Home Cinema 6100 native 1080p home theater projector. Lens shift on this unit is 100% up and down. 50 ...

Why My Next TV Will Be a Projector

09.06.10

I've said for a long time that if you want to watch TV or movies at large size, an HD projector plus a good-quality screen is a much better answer—in theory at least—than an HDTV. Now theory is becoming reality.

Sometimes solutions to puzzles come in a flash, often when you aren't even trying to solve the puzzle. A case in point: My sudden realization that my next TV should be a projector.

I've been saying for a long time that if you want to watch TV or movies at large size, an HD projector plus a good-quality screen is a much better answer, in theory at least, than an HDTV. A projector's core advantage is that it will give you a much larger, high-quality image than a TV at a much lower price. But my ideal setup doesn't exist yet, so I had the idea filed under something I'd eventually do at some vague, future time. What suddenly hit me is that even though my ideal isn't available yet, perfectly usable solutions are.

There are several pieces to this particular puzzle. Start with one fact that you probably already know on some level but without ever thinking about the implications. If you're connecting your TV to a cable box or the equivalent, you're not using it as a TV; you're using it strictly as a display. You have no use whatsoever for the TV tuner inside the TV, because you're changing channels by way of your cable, FIOS, or satellite box.

Source: PC Magazine