Your friends are doing it wrong. With $1000-2000 you can have a very quality home theater experience, including games

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I'm assuming bro can't exactly afford to spend thousands of dollars on a high quality laser projector, so they're just stuck using the cheaper $200-300 projectors on Amazon.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Yeah, those are going to suuuuck

by Anonymous 1 month ago

We had one with a screen and mounted correctly; used it all the time! Great surround sound. If you do it right; it awesome.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I agree that inside it doesn't work well, but in the summer time it can be amazing to have an outdoor movie night with friends and family in your neighbourhood. The use case for private homes is small, but it does have a niche it crushes if you care about that sort of thing. Inside the house it very rarely works for normal folks. Agreed.

by Bruenloma 1 month ago

Agreed, the brightness can't even begin to compare to an OLED. Not even a movie theater projector will give you fire that actually looks like fire.

by darrinkihn 1 month ago

I had one set up at my old house but I spent a few hundred bucks on a legit 1080p epson projector, and had a 110" screen and a surround sound system, it was great. It's stupid when people buy a $50 projector on Amazon and just point it at a wall but if you do it right it's awesome.

by Barthettinger 1 month ago

I had one and it was perfect. Sports watching parties, movies, tv.... it was 108 inches of awesomeness. Kids absolutely loved it too. All their friends came over to watch movies and hang. Ass kicking surround sound. 10/10 will do it again when next house has proper room for it. They're great

by Wisozkvelda 1 month ago

We have a low noise projector on a shelf hung from the basement ceiling projecting on a wall we painted white. Low cost, good picture quality, unobstructed and immersive - sports and concerts feel like you're there live but without annoying crowds or travel

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Watching on a projector is less blue light exposure. It's also great when you have kids because it's a lot easier to mount and protect a small projector than a large tv screen

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I use mine with a portable speaker that goes around with me. My projector has been going for years and every TV I have purchased in the last few years has crapped out. I'm happy with it. Who cares if it's not perfectly straight or great quality, it's just tv.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

For over three yearsI have had one of the cheapest, simplest projector + surround sound setups you can imagine. It is and has always been way better than any experience I could have with a TV. My "screen" is basically my entire wall (130+ inches wide and 60+ inches tall, and lines up perfectly with my walls and baseboards, media center, etc. It is also just as clear and bright as any TV I would have purchased. My surround sound is fantastic, and it is a thousand times better than sound from a TV. My entire package cost me less than $1500, which includes the projector, cables, a tuner, speakers, and a floating media center just below my screen. Whoever you know is setting things up and failing miserably, tell them to watch some youtube videos or something. It's not all that hard. If dedicating an area just for a theater room is an issue for you, then I am assuming you're just not a homeowner or you just don't have the space to dedicate to it. If someone walking in front of it for a second is such a big deal, then one workaround is to mount the projector to the ceiling, which is what I do. Overall, I love love love my theater room and wouldn't have it any other way. There is nothing you can say to make me think otherwise. All these morons dropping 3k on a 80 inch OLED, when you could have a screen twice as big and with way better sound is just hilarious to me.

by AffectNo 1 month ago

I have to agree! Projectors can be a hassle—between the setup, needing a dark room, and often not delivering the same clarity as a good TV. It's like they promise the cinema experience but end up feeling like a complicated chore!

by Dixiemuller 1 month ago