Are short throw projectors experiencing a renassance?

Then build a real home theater with a real projector.

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We had these "smartboards" installed at work, literally no one uses the "smart" features, they all disable the software as soon as they turn it on (its slow and buggy AF) and use it as a plain projector

Heh, when I was in school it was mostly chalk or dry erase boards. The only projectors were slide ones. You didn't have to do a lot of the dumb useless shit they make you do now to even graduate. Thank god I got out before all that shit got started. (wish cell phones w/cams were around then though)

Yea remember the projectors where they had a clear sheet of plastic, and would project those notes onto the screen.

Thems were the days, thinking about them beans..

I teach computer science (Java) at a highschool and I write all my code on one of these still...

Nice. Bet it forces them to concentrate.

>projectors where they had a clear sheet of plastic, and would project those notes onto the screen.

Our first "digital" projector was exactly that plus a separate A4 sized LCD panel.

Jesus fucking christ grandpa
You're one of those teachers that ends up making the kid hate the subject when they might have actually liked it had they had a better teacher

Projectors have zero purpose being in homes.
I can buy LG's wallpaper TV and an orgasm-inducing sound system for the same price as this fucking thing.

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forget about price. They simply are more convenient than any other form of display. Its something only the truly wealthy can appreciate

Something is really wrong when the general adult population has such a poor understanding of basic physics, particularly the behavior of light and the retina.
Basic Middle School and early High School science and physics gives you all the knowledge you'd need to intuitively understand why projectors are bad for general viewing.
But you don't have that very, very basic education, so you ask Jow Forums. Maybe you're from Africa. Well okay, fine:

An extremely expensive movie theater set up, which only works in a pitch black room, is still far inferior to a decent monitor in quality. Unless you're a millionaire, you won't replicate such an experience in your home. So just forget about it. If you have to ask this question, you can't afford it.

>An extremely expensive movie theater set up, which only works in a pitch black room, is still far inferior to a decent monitor in quality

This is wrong though. LCD displays have their own issues. I'll take a modern LCoS projector over LCD garbage any day.

I finished a levels last year and they used to use a smartboard with pen for most of the blocks(what they called the individual buildings, it was like a campus) with the teachers writing on the board just for illustration.

>comparing LCoS projector to $90 TN instead of a decent monitor
>decent monitor
>decent

You can actually get an HP ZR24w used panel (no stand) for $80, too. Won't require special paint on your walls and sealing the windows off the room, either.

No I'm comparing it to even the best. Monitors are still behind TVs for the most part but the poorfags of Jow Forums won't admit to this. FALD is just barely being implemented now and so far it's poorly implemented for sub-par HDR support.

The main reason to get a projector is the large viewing size, it's surprising you managed to type so much nonsense without mentioning the #1 advantage of projectors. Huge, high quality TV's are still extremely expensive and monitors still max out at around 40-43" until Nvidia comes out with their Xbox Hueg display which will probably start at $2000.

Why the fuck would someone watch movies on a 24" screen if they were interested in a home theater setup?

TV screens and monitors are the same fucking thing, so no wonder I didn't understand the dumb shit you thought you were saying. Except that TVs often have NSA and "smart" features built into them.

Assuming a good response time, and that the refresh rate isn't faked, you can use a TV as a monitor.

>tfw managed to buy the last non-smart tv my mall had at a really good price because all you find these days are botnet TV's.

Feelsgoodman.

They're both displays built for different purposes. If you knew anything at all then you'd know you need to look for other factors like chroma sub-sampling/4:4:4 support for using a TV as a monitor. None of what you said refutes what I'm saying though. TVs, and projectors, are still more advanced when it comes to implementing tech for higher picture quality.

watching on a monitor with headphones is exactly the same experience if you have autism

If you actually have a good setup they're really good (one of my friend's houses has a theatre in it, its awesome), but if you half ass it, it will look like shit

Yes. Within colleges, they certainly are, because you can put them just above the screen and the professor can stand in front of the screen like 1 foot away and not block the image.

What does a good setup entail? I've been thinking about getting a projector, purely for the size

The dell ultra short throw system seems pretty good, but the price tag of these types of systems are too high for the time being.

All flatpanel displays sold today have "Smart" botnets in them unless they are bottom of the barrel 32" 720p made for the trailer dwelling market.

It is possible that modern projectors don't have botnets inside them because they are designed more for professional use.

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I have a projector, but I tend to not watch shit during daylight as it is.

It's not that it looks horrible with some daylight, but I'd always feel like I'm compromising so I'd only really watch shit at night.
I'd probably just pay dosh for a huge ass regular TV if this thing ever dies.

It looks glorious at night, though.

at my school every teacher that had one used it's smart features

projectors have good input speeds DLP projectors are less than 1ms response time.

but yer its old technology it only makes sense for 30+ people