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Supersize Your TV for $300: Build Your Own XGA Projector!
Conclusion: The Fun And Fascination Of Building Your Own Projector
This article was inspired by offers on eBay for home projector construction manuals for around $20 that, on closer inspection, proved to be thoroughly useless.
The result was all the more pleasing: the projector we built convinced even the notorious skeptics at the THG lab in Munich. Despite daylight flooding the room, the luminous efficiency of 3,500 ANSI lumens made it possible to screen DVD films and images onto a white wall. Perfect display quality can be achieved in a completely darkened room. But why not just download our new video (#13)? It will give you an idea of what you can expect from the final product.