We had bought a projector during the winter as Prague is always dark in the winter for some damn reason the sun is gone by 5pm and rises very late which is the perfect environment for a projector with an 85 inch pull down screen! Yep it has been fun video gaming skyping and watching our TV on the wall. Not to mention the kids love watching dora light up a whole damn wall.
There were a few problems with this solution though the first being that lightbulbs for projectors are very very expensive and run 2-4 years based on usage. Using a projector for everyday constant viewing can really be an expensive decision. The other problem is well now that summer is here and the sun stays up till friggen 11pm and rises at 3:30am viewing experience is almost impossible especially during the day.
Yep this leads us to the inevitably purchase of a real TV. We ended up buying a 37" LED tv with some awesome stats on the thing.
I ordered all the parts needed including an HDMI switch so I can toggle between my viewing experience. We are running XBMC media center which categorizes all of our media allows surging youtube and has some nice player features.
Our television library is a massive one which I constantly am deleting shows to keep my 2 terabyte hardrives from filling up.
There were a few problems with this solution though the first being that lightbulbs for projectors are very very expensive and run 2-4 years based on usage. Using a projector for everyday constant viewing can really be an expensive decision. The other problem is well now that summer is here and the sun stays up till friggen 11pm and rises at 3:30am viewing experience is almost impossible especially during the day.
Yep this leads us to the inevitably purchase of a real TV. We ended up buying a 37" LED tv with some awesome stats on the thing.
I ordered all the parts needed including an HDMI switch so I can toggle between my viewing experience. We are running XBMC media center which categorizes all of our media allows surging youtube and has some nice player features.
Our television library is a massive one which I constantly am deleting shows to keep my 2 terabyte hardrives from filling up.
I grabbed a quick preview this is the current state of our living room there are damn wires everywhere that I still need to get put up as it really looks chaotic but the video and photos below show the chaos that is our living room.
I am still waiting on an HDMI switch to toggle between the tv and projector
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