A Day in Paradise

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This just caught my eye because it made me feel REALLY old…

Nickerson said that while many compare the DVD format wars to the battle a quarter century ago between the Betamax and VHS formats, another analogy might be more useful.

Could that _really_ have been a quarter of a century ago? I’m feeling old.

Somewhat on the same topic, I’m in the market for a new TV, we’re redoing some of our rooms and moving our sitting room into the upstairs “studio” where we will have more space.

Obviously to make better use of the space we want to sort out something smaller than our current bulky TV set. The obvious option is a plasma screen, but the other option that I thought of would be to get a beamer and make good use of the fairly big white wall that is available.

Price-wise they both work out about the same. That is about EU1 - 1.5k The plasma screen will need to be lower-end but you can get a fairly good beamer for that price.

Now my question is if anyone has any experience with what types of beamers to look for. Is there a “power-up” time? I know often during conferences you have to turn on the beamer half an hour in advance, obviously this wouldn’t be ideal for a home entertainment system.

Are there any other options?

Oh, well… time to get back to work, a new home entertainment system is pretty far down on the old priority list.