Word: projectors
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...part, I sat at the end of an L-shaped table next to one of the prosecutor's lawyers, who handed me various documents to review while an overhead projector displayed the documents on a screen near me. Virtually all the questions centered on the week of July 6, 2003. I was new to covering the Bush White House, having been the deputy Washington bureau chief for TIME. As it happens, that week was a big one at the White House. On that Sunday, the New York Times had published former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's now infamous Op-Ed describing...
...usually comes in that box is everything but the TV, a very expensive, very necessary piece of the theater puzzle. RadioShack just introduced a product (which comes in a single, easy to carry box) that truly has everything you need to bring the cinema home. It's a DLP projector with built-in DVD player and stereo speakers, plus a subwoofer. Videophiles might desire a better, more complicated rig, but I was impressed with the simplicity of the set up and the quality of the movie-watching experience...
...house with the unopened box. I didn't have any access to my own tools or my rat's nest of spare wires. Nor did I have hours to figure out how everything fit together. It didn't matter; in no time my friends had set up the projector and were aiming it at a white wall where a picture had been hanging. My only chore was to pull the remote control from the box and press the power button...
...built-in speakers point backward from the projector, so the ideal place to put the unit is on the coffee table in front of you. Bear in mind that the farther back the projector is from the wall or screen, the larger the picture will appear. We were able to get a picture roughly equivalent to that of a 65-in. big-screen TV, and didn't have to adjust much for "keystoning" (the tapering that occurs when you point the movie's rectangular picture up at an angle). Once we turned out the lights, and played with contrast...
...Videophiles wouldn't be happy with the resolution. This DLP projector is 480p, which means it shows typical widescreen movies in 480 horizontal lines. This resolution is the same as DVD movies, but a real video geek would pay the $2,000 or more for a high-definition projector with a resolution of 720 lines or even higher (which can upscale DVD content for a sharper look). Also, the Cinego has a fairly low contrast ratio, which means that you can't really get a deep black without losing brightness. On the picture front, though, I was amazed...