Projecting Display on to Wall

[Thomas M.]

XP Pro SP2

I just purchased a house and I have this idea of setting up a hugely
powerful machine and projecting the display on to a wall. I have plans to
use the machine for serious work with VMs. I am starting up a user's group
with some of my fellow Network Administrators and I want to build a virtual
network, do some virtual labs, etc. At the same time, I hope to satisfy my
wild side by using the machine for gaming, and being able to project that up
on the wall as well.

I've never setup something like this at home, and I'm wondering what all I
need to consider. I know that a good projector can be pricy, and the bulbs
can be very expensive as well. I've also heard that a special kind of paint
is required for the wall. Finally, if I have a sharp image on my LCD, is
that image going to remain sharp when projected up on a wall?

I would greatly appreciate any information you have to share regarding these
points, or any other points that I neglected to mention.

--Tom

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

XP Pro SP2

I just purchased a house and I have this idea of setting up a hugely
powerful machine and projecting the display on to a wall. I have plans to
use the machine for serious work with VMs. I am starting up a user's
group with some of my fellow Network Administrators and I want to build a
virtual network, do some virtual labs, etc. At the same time, I hope to
satisfy my wild side by using the machine for gaming, and being able to
project that up on the wall as well.

I've never setup something like this at home, and I'm wondering what all I
need to consider. I know that a good projector can be pricy, and the
bulbs can be very expensive as well. I've also heard that a special kind
of paint is required for the wall. Finally, if I have a sharp image on my
LCD, is that image going to remain sharp when projected up on a wall?

I would greatly appreciate any information you have to share regarding
these points, or any other points that I neglected to mention.

--Tom

Wouldn't this be a hardware question, best posted in WindowsXP.hardware?

 

[Lem]

Wouldn't this be a hardware question, best posted in WindowsXP.hardware?

It's not even really a Windows hardware question. It's more of a home
theater question. Google is your friend, and if you really want to
paint: http://www.projectorcentral.com/goo_systems_projector_screens.htm


--
Lem -- MS-MVP - Networking

To the moon and back with 4KB of RAM and 72KB of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

 

[Thomas M.]

I wasn't sure what group to post it to. I was looking for something along
the lines of a media group, and there are a couple of XP media groups, but
it looked like they deal more with video file formats, etc. So I thought
that the XP general group would be the best fit. However, I did not
consider posting it to the hardware group. In retrospect, I think that you
are right in suggesting that it is more of a hardware question. I will post
the message to the hardware group. Thanks for the advice!

--Tom