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Meanwhile, you've got the potential for over a hundred inches of screen for under a thousand bucks. Even including the costs of the bulbs, you're still making out a pretty sweet deal.
For my part? Dice.
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The quality depends on where and how you set it up. Not all screens are equal. I lucked into getting a proper projection screen for free from a friend. There are either paints or fabrics you can get that help you get the most out of your pixels. Also, being in a darkened room helps. Admittedly, projectors don't do so hot in well-lit rooms. Also, there is a bigger know-how requirement for setting it up. But in the end, it's very worth it.
Each method has its advantages, but supposing you have the space and the patience for it, you can get an impressive home theater setup from a projector for much less than a plasma.
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My basement has now become the media room in my social circle. TVs are cool, don't get me wrong, but you put up a theater, suddenly movies become an engrossing experience. Which is what they're supposed to be. It moves from a talking box on one side of the room to a real show.
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Why all the hate? Stashing your loot for a couple of months for a TV doesn't qualify you as "rich" and it doesn't make you a "dickhead" either.
Lighten up!
09/08/09
And to be frank, in my experience, people who own projection tvs don't really need or want them. They usually own them just for the showoff appeal, and so mount them in tiny little rooms so that when they're watching the Truman show in High def Jim carrey is just as big as they are oh squeeeee!
09/08/09
*scratches Peeps off of "Sugar Daddies" list*
09/08/09
$100 per week saved for 4 months = 7 foot tall image of Alexis Texas on my wall...
Don't know about you, butt that spells AFFORDABILITY for me.
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09/08/09
Man, I'm in a real photoshoppy mood today.
02/27/09
Second, there are tools out there that can reset the computer chip in Epson print cartridges so that the printer will recognize it as a new cartridge. You should also be refilling the cartridge when you do this, so it actually will be full when it registers as full. See, these cartridges have no capability of actually measuring the amount of ink left, so they measure how much they've been used instead, and save that to the onboard chip. Once the chip reads empty, the cartridge won't print anymore.
02/27/09
I've sent my share of inkjet printers to the grave over the years. If the print head is built in, then sooner or later it will clog so badly it can't be fixed, and that's that.
That's a dirty trick with the cartridges - I've had several printers that would guesstimate the ink level and tell you it was empty, then if you just reinstalled the cartridge you'd find there was another third to half left.
Anyway, I don't print a lot now, but I gave up and bought a little desktop Samsung laser printer for $60. I picked up a spare toner for $70. As long as the opened toner doesn't leech too much moisture from the air and clump up, it should be able to survive long periods of no printing quite easily. It can also put out a huge volume of great looking, water resistant (no smearing or blurring) pages very fast. The fuser isn't replacable so eventually 100,000 to 200,000 pages later it may start giving me dirty output, but I'm not too concerned since a new fuser for say, an HP 4xxx costs 4x as much as the whole printer.
I guess if color is needed, HP is the way these days because they still put printheads on the cartridges for some models. It's worth the cost if you don't want to replace your whole printer every year.
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