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https://store.moma.org/museum/moma/ProductDisplay_Portable-Ultra-Short-Throw-Projector_10451_10001237870-1_26674_46162
Just saw this at MOMA NYC, no idea if it's any good.
Not sure if it even meets your criteria, but seems like a fun idea - obviously it doesn't, but still...
withered_preacher
CYOA
I've never owned a television.
Am thinking of getting one to watch films on. I'd prefer a projector and sound system but there isn't enough wall space and I don't want to have to use a projector screen (either one on a stand that I have to store somewhere and set up, nor do I want to install a pull-down into our flimsy ceiling - nor do I want to look at a pull down for that matter). Next house I'll make sure we have a single big fuck-off white wall, perfectly plastered, to project on.
But for now it'll be a television.
Or does it? It needs to be able to connect to a BluRay player/Apple TV/games console etc, maybe an AV receiver/amp/cd changer etc. Is that a television? Or a just a big computer monitor? We don't have a TV aerial if that makes a difference (though do have a little Virgin wall box with some fibre outputs so presume Virgin would be the supplier of any TV service OR we would use something like NowTV which I understand receives signal from wifi). I would like to connect it to a decent speaker system in due time so presume it needs a particular set of audio-out ports (or are they much of a muchness?)
Lastly it has to be thin. I'd like it wall mounted on a chimney breast and don't want it to jut out further than a few of inches including any mount.
Any brands to look for/things to know? Any times of year / places to buy from? Surely 4K content still isn't there yet to make justifying a 4K screen worth it (have a 5k screen for video editing so there would have to be a lot of broadcast 4k footage to consider it). So presume 1080p. Don't want to use these horrible picture profiles that give horrible movement effects. Don't want 3D abilities. Just a nice screen to watch films on and play games etc. Image quality/colour reproduction fairly important but I mean that in terms of accuracy to original (like THX was for cinema standards) rather than these horrible hyper-saturation images I see in TV displays at Currys etc.
Hit me.