Mini projector

Fab,  I couldn't be arced to find a screen, find a place to mount it, or experiment how far away from the screen it needs to be to fill it, or how many windows I need to cover because its ok for a primary colour power point presentation, but no good for black and grey tones and buy a projector stand (Because the keystone correction isn't as good as claimed and makes it a bit blurred).

I agree that there is much general fan-annery about projectors, which is why I've never bothered. But once it's set up and if it turns out to be of worth, I'll let you know (or in fact otherwise too).

Mind you, if it's like last week's movie - early Kurosawa - we'll be clawing the walls to get out. I wouldn't say "Sanshiro Sugata" was slow, but at one point someone sat on the pause button and we didn't notice for ten minutes.

My immediate thought is bin.  My Second though is why didn't you ask me first, My third though is I told you so.


But in the nature of friendly co-operation, and assuming you have a receiver in you amp


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Nah. Amazon has dozens of Bluetooth units that are switchable between Tx and Rx mode, so you can buy two of those an operate one in each. Many have built-in USB-chargeable batteries too, although some will not charge and operate at the same time.

But will Bluetooth audio synchronize with the pictures on another device?

Don't spend money on the sound element - you might unbox this projector, realise the picture quality is poor and send it back to Amazon.

Well, Otto, since you asked...

Still in the throes of setting it up. The coincidence of screen, time, enthusiasm, bits of support kit and the slightest flicker of interest from anyone that isn't me is yet to occur.

So far I have managed to barely balance it on what the Spanish undoubtedly call el mantelpiece precarioso, put an HDMI splitter on the PS3 (nice little gizmo for a fiver!), and feed Youtube through it, with the sound coming from the PS3 and into the amp as it always has. It projected a giant blurry interview with David Niven and Cliff Michelmore from 1958 onto the end wall, which is a patterned wallpaper. Poor David had gold stars all over his nose and one in his eye, which couldn't have helped.

The reception from the critical audience of one, after a few moments of silence was "it's a bit big for the room, isn't it", followed by a swift exit, so not sure it's going to work. This is a woman for whom size does actually matter - our 28" TV is "enormous" as far as she is concerned, and suggestions of a larger screen are met with an expression normally reserved for child beaters, so in retrospect a ten foot image was always going to be a hard sell.

However, I need to sort out a proper screen, which is possible but will be another week or two before that can happen. Shame. Last night's movie night was "Dial M for Murder", which neither of us had seen and it might have been good on the projector. I think something like Tom and Jerry would work nicely on it; that would remind me of being small and in those London cinemas that showed those on an endless reel.

I tell myself it's all part of the fun and it will be excellent once sorted, and then I go and play The Sims or something instead.

Glad to hear you got some sort of result out of it though. I expect the novelty has worn off by now though and you've forgotten it ever existed. What did you see on it?

It took a few minutes to set ours up, I got my 8 year old son to do it as he likes building things and seeing how things connect together.

My daughter now wants the full cinema setup with seats on raised levels. Our local cinema has tables at all the seats with buttons so you can get drinks and snacks brought to you while a movie is showing. All very civilised but my daughter can forget any setup like that at home.

They watched 'Home' an animated movie. My wife and I watched Die Hard 5 then Hancock later in the evening. The projector is not the last word in image quality however it is better than I expected for 85€.